A Bibliometric Analysis on Distributed Generation

Distributed Generation can reach multiple functional goals of higher energy efficiency, lower energy cost, higher safety, better environmental protection performance and so on, which is the best way to reflect energy-saving, emission reduction, safety and flexibility. In this paper the development of distributed generation was analyzed from the angle of document metrology. The statistical analysis method had been adopted to study the growth trend, research area and core author of documents and the dynamic evolution of distributed generation was also analyzed by combined co-citation cluster and content words analysis. It was concluded that the research on distributed generation mainly focused on the area of electric power system and its application and the trend of a fluctuant prosperous development was displayed, which was greatly influenced by the government's incentive policy. All these results in this paper provided scholars who research on distributed generation with some reference value.