Global Emission Inventory Research Trends
The study used the bibiometric analysis to assess papers on emission inventory from 2001-2012, based on the SCIE and SSCI databases. The paper analyzed publication outputs, subject categories, major journals, authors’ outputs, geographic distribution of publications, international collaboration and author keywords. Our research identified a total of 5995 emission inventory-related publications during the period. Most of the papers related to emission inventory were published in journals linkd to the atmosphere. Streets, DG from Argonne National Laboratory contributed most in the research of emission inventory whose total papers, total citations, the average number of citations and H-index were all in the leading position. The USA, with the most independent and internationally collaborative papers, cooperated with China most. Global emission inventory research focused on life cycle assessment, greenhouse gases, models, remote sensing and so on, which may serve as a foundation for further research in emission inventory field.