摘要

the current paper is a bibliometric study of the world scientific production on biodiesel compiled in the web of science, in order to identify the most productive authors, countries, institutions and journals; as well as the languages of the articles, documental typology, isi subject categories, and keywords presented in the registries. it was obtained a total of 1022 articles, signed by 1857 authors. the co-authorship index was 3.04. the papers were published in 232 journals. a total of 565 institutions from 56 countries were identified. an exponential growth of the scientific production during the last 15 years was observed.

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