ABSTRACT
Crude oil-based gasoline fuels have been widely used in the transportation sector since the 1920s. However, there have been great public concerns over the adverse environmental and human impacts of these fuels. Hence, biomass-based bioethanol fuels have increasingly been used in blending gasoline fuels, in fuel cells, and in producing valuable biochemicals in a biorefinery context. In the meantime, research in nanomaterials and nanotechnology has intensified in recent years. The research on the production of biochemicals from bioethanol fuels has primarily intensified on the research fronts of bioethylenes, biobutadienes, biobutanols, and bioacetaldehydes and, to a lesser extent, bioethyl acetates, biopropylenes, bioacetic acids, biodiethyl ethers, and bioisobutenes. Further, the focus of the research has been on the development of the catalysts and catalyst supports, and the applications of nanotechnology have been relatively scarce. However, it is essential to develop efficient incentive structures for the primary stakeholders to enhance research in this field. Scientometric analysis has been used in this context to inform the primary stakeholders about the current state of research in this research field. As there have been no scientometric studies on biochemical production in general and on biochemical production from bioethanol fuels, this chapter presents a scientometric study of the research on bioethanol fuel-based biochemical production. It examines the scientometric characteristics of both the sample and population data and presents them in the order of documents, authors, publication years, institutions, funding bodies, source titles, countries, Scopus subject categories, keywords, and research fronts.
