Underground carbon dioxide sequestration for climate change mitigation – A scientometric study

[Display omitted] •UCCS research, initiated in the 1990s, is following a sigmoidal growth pattern.•No highly active research group has been identified in UCCS research.•USA and China are currently leading countries in UCCS research.•More systematic studies are required to promote UCCS for real applications.•Findings can be used by stakeholders such as governments, among others. In this study, a scientometric comprehensive analysis has been executed in order to explore the scientific situation of research efforts performed previously with regard underground CO2 sequestration and encapsulation. To this end, a total of 1280 bibliographic records from the Web of Science (WoS) database were extracted and analysed to report the analysis of scientific state of the authors, journals, countries, and categories. Eventually, geospatial maps of the progress in this field are created and presented. As per the results obtained, efforts on this subject have been initiated significantly since 1990s. Scientific articles and proceeding papers share nearly 63% and 31% of the documents published. The results indicate that USA and China are the most contributing countries. Among the active journals, international journal of greenhouse gas control impact is the most active journal. It may be concluded that no highly active research group has yet been emerged. Hence, more supports and scientific efforts are needed to promote carbon dioxide capture and storage technologies.