Prospective Scientific Research Trend Identification Methods (Based on the Analysis of Gas Fuel-Related Publications)

This article reviews prospective scientific research-trend identification methods based on the analysis of scientific publications focused on compressed natural gas. The methods for identifying publication directions and patterns by popularity of separate topics within one subject area are presented. The materials used in the article consist of scientific research on natural gas available in citation databases of Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI), Scopus, and Web of Science and the data from the EGISU R&D system of Russian researches. The results were processed in the VOSviewer software.