| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Renewable Power-to-Gas: A technological and economic review | Renewable Energy | 2016 | 1,837 |
| 2 | Bioethanol production from agricultural wastes: An overview | Renewable Energy | 2012 | 1,341 |
| 3 | Machine learning methods for solar radiation forecasting: A review | Renewable Energy | 2017 | 1,141 |
| 4 | Biodiesel production from oleaginous microorganisms | Renewable Energy | 2009 | 978 |
| 5 | A comprehensive review on the pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass | Renewable Energy | 2018 | 974 |
| 6 | Current methods and advances in forecasting of wind power generation | Renewable Energy | 2012 | 972 |
| 7 | Biogas: Developments and perspectives in Europe | Renewable Energy | 2018 | 858 |
| 8 | Determinants of CO2 emissions in the European Union: The role of renewable and non-renewable energy | Renewable Energy | 2016 | 786 |
| 9 | Properties and use of jatropha curcas oil and diesel fuel blends in compression ignition engine | Renewable Energy | 2003 | 744 |
| 10 | Day-ahead wind speed forecasting using f-ARIMA models | Renewable Energy | 2009 | 737 |
| 11 | Barriers to renewable energy penetration; a framework for analysis | Renewable Energy | 2001 | 725 |
| 12 | Condition monitoring of wind turbines: Techniques and methods | Renewable Energy | 2012 | 707 |
| 13 | Wind power and the NIMBY-myth: institutional capacity and the limited significance of public support | Renewable Energy | 2000 | 698 |
| 14 | Support vector machines for wind speed prediction | Renewable Energy | 2004 | 687 |
| 15 | Potential of lithium-ion batteries in renewable energy | Renewable Energy | 2015 | 680 |
| 16 | Impact of renewable energy consumption and financial development on CO2 emissions and economic growth in the MENA region: A panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) analysis | Renewable Energy | 2019 | 646 |
| 17 | Use of vegetable oils as I.C. engine fuels—A review | Renewable Energy | 2004 | 635 |
| 18 | Placement of wind turbines using genetic algorithms | Renewable Energy | 2005 | 634 |
| 19 | Oscillating-water-column wave energy converters and air turbines: A review | Renewable Energy | 2016 | 627 |
| 20 | A new analytical model for wind-turbine wakes | Renewable Energy | 2014 | 618 |
| 21 | An experimental investigation on the effect of Al2O3–H2O nanofluid on the efficiency of flat-plate solar collectors | Renewable Energy | 2012 | 615 |
| 22 | Hydrogen production from steam gasification of biomass: Influence of process parameters on hydrogen yield – A review | Renewable Energy | 2014 | 604 |
| 23 | Wind tunnel and numerical study of a small vertical axis wind turbine | Renewable Energy | 2010 | 585 |
| 24 | Power and thrust measurements of marine current turbines under various hydrodynamic flow conditions in a cavitation tunnel and a towing tank | Renewable Energy | 2007 | 582 |
| 25 | Ground heat exchangers—A review of systems, models and applications | Renewable Energy | 2007 | 580 |
| 26 | Energy harvesting: State-of-the-art | Renewable Energy | 2011 | 572 |
| 27 | Multi-criteria decision-making in the selection of a renewable energy project in spain: The Vikor method | Renewable Energy | 2011 | 552 |
| 28 | Performance and emission evaluation of a diesel engine fueled with methyl esters of rubber seed oil | Renewable Energy | 2005 | 547 |
| 29 | The dynamic relationship of renewable and nonrenewable energy consumption with carbon emission: A global study with the application of heterogeneous panel estimations | Renewable Energy | 2019 | 543 |
| 30 | A survey on smart grid technologies and applications | Renewable Energy | 2020 | 540 |
| 31 | Numerical benchmarking study of a selection of wave energy converters | Renewable Energy | 2012 | 539 |
| 32 | CO2 emissions, economic growth, renewable and non-renewable energy production and foreign trade in China | Renewable Energy | 2019 | 532 |
| 33 | Operating temperature of photovoltaic modules: A survey of pertinent correlations | Renewable Energy | 2009 | 528 |
| 34 | Wind speed forecasting based on the hybrid ensemble empirical mode decomposition and GA-BP neural network method | Renewable Energy | 2016 | 527 |
| 35 | Dynamic life cycle assessment (LCA) of renewable energy technologies | Renewable Energy | 2006 | 516 |
| 36 | The dynamic impact of renewable energy and institutions on economic output and CO 2 emissions across regions | Renewable Energy | 2017 | 496 |
| 37 | A review of power converter topologies for wind generators | Renewable Energy | 2007 | 489 |
| 38 | Optimal scheduling of a renewable micro-grid in an isolated load area using mixed-integer linear programming | Renewable Energy | 2010 | 487 |
| 39 | Machine learning methods for wind turbine condition monitoring: A review | Renewable Energy | 2019 | 487 |
| 40 | Determination of the density and the viscosities of biodiesel–diesel fuel blends | Renewable Energy | 2008 | 481 |
| 41 | Design, simulation, and testing of a novel hydraulic power take-off system for the Pelamis wave energy converter | Renewable Energy | 2006 | 478 |
| 42 | Off-grid electricity generation with renewable energy technologies in India: An application of HOMER | Renewable Energy | 2014 | 477 |
| 43 | The influence of temperature and heating rate on the slow pyrolysis of biomass | Renewable Energy | 1996 | 476 |
| 44 | Social, economical and environmental impacts of renewable energy systems | Renewable Energy | 2009 | 475 |
| 45 | The effect of temperature on the power drop in crystalline silicon solar cells | Renewable Energy | 2003 | 472 |
| 46 | Challenges and solution technologies for the integration of variable renewable energy sources—a review | Renewable Energy | 2020 | 466 |
| 47 | Fundamentals, kinetics and endothermicity of the biomass pyrolysis reaction | Renewable Energy | 2010 | 465 |
| 48 | Quantifying the global wave power resource | Renewable Energy | 2012 | 465 |
| 49 | Estimation of Environmental Kuznets Curve for CO2 emission: Role of renewable energy generation in India | Renewable Energy | 2018 | 462 |
| 50 | Methane generation in landfills | Renewable Energy | 2007 | 449 |
| 51 | Renewable methane from anaerobic digestion of biomass | Renewable Energy | 2001 | 444 |
| 52 | PEM fuel cell system control: A review | Renewable Energy | 2017 | 444 |
| 53 | Unit sizing and cost analysis of stand-alone hybrid wind/PV/fuel cell power generation systems | Renewable Energy | 2006 | 437 |
| 54 | Multi-step forecasting for wind speed using a modified EMD-based artificial neural network model | Renewable Energy | 2012 | 436 |
| 55 | Multi-objective design of PV–wind–diesel–hydrogen–battery systems | Renewable Energy | 2008 | 434 |
| 56 | Combining solar photovoltaic panels and food crops for optimising land use: Towards new agrivoltaic schemes | Renewable Energy | 2011 | 433 |
| 57 | Optimal planning and design of a renewable energy based supply system for microgrids | Renewable Energy | 2012 | 433 |
| 58 | The role of renewable versus non-renewable energy to the level of CO2 emissions a panel analysis of sub- Saharan Africa’s Βig 10 electricity generators | Renewable Energy | 2018 | 430 |
| 59 | Pre-feasibility study of stand-alone hybrid energy systems for applications in Newfoundland | Renewable Energy | 2005 | 428 |
| 60 | Selection of renewable energy sources for sustainable development of electricity generation system using analytic hierarchy process: A case of Malaysia | Renewable Energy | 2014 | 422 |
| 61 | Diesel engine performance and exhaust emission analysis using waste cooking biodiesel fuel with an artificial neural network | Renewable Energy | 2009 | 420 |
| 62 | Optimised model for community-based hybrid energy system | Renewable Energy | 2007 | 418 |
| 63 | A novel fault diagnosis technique for photovoltaic systems based on artificial neural networks | Renewable Energy | 2016 | 414 |
| 64 | The wind energy (r)evolution: A short review of a long history | Renewable Energy | 2011 | 413 |
| 65 | Cellulase production using biomass feed stock and its application in lignocellulose saccharification for bio-ethanol production | Renewable Energy | 2009 | 411 |
| 66 | Fuzzy TOPSIS method for ranking renewable energy supply systems in Turkey | Renewable Energy | 2015 | 407 |
| 67 | Enzymatic biodiesel synthesis – Key factors affecting efficiency of the process | Renewable Energy | 2009 | 405 |
| 68 | Effect of cellulose and lignin content on pyrolysis and combustion characteristics for several types of biomass | Renewable Energy | 2007 | 401 |
| 69 | Biodiesel separation and purification: A review | Renewable Energy | 2011 | 398 |
| 70 | Calculation of the polycrystalline PV module temperature using a simple method of energy balance | Renewable Energy | 2006 | 392 |
| 71 | Design of wind farm layout for maximum wind energy capture | Renewable Energy | 2010 | 392 |
| 72 | Energy input–output analysis in Turkish agriculture | Renewable Energy | 2004 | 390 |
| 73 | Short-term wind speed forecasting using wavelet transform and support vector machines optimized by genetic algorithm | Renewable Energy | 2014 | 388 |
| 74 | A statistical analysis of wind power density based on the Weibull and Rayleigh models at the southern region of Turkey | Renewable Energy | 2004 | 387 |
| 75 | Catalytic decomposition of biomass tars: use of dolomite and untreated olivine | Renewable Energy | 2005 | 383 |
| 76 | Centralised power control of wind farm with doubly fed induction generators | Renewable Energy | 2006 | 382 |
| 77 | Repeated wavelet transform based ARIMA model for very short-term wind speed forecasting | Renewable Energy | 2019 | 380 |
| 78 | Seasonal optimal mix of wind and solar power in a future, highly renewable Europe | Renewable Energy | 2010 | 378 |
| 79 | A comprehensive study of the impact of green roofs on building energy performance | Renewable Energy | 2012 | 378 |
| 80 | Flexible electricity generation, grid exchange and storage for the transition to a 100% renewable energy system in Europe | Renewable Energy | 2019 | 375 |
| 81 | Decision-making in energy planning. Application of the Electre method at regional level for the diffusion of renewable energy technology | Renewable Energy | 2003 | 373 |
| 82 | Re-considering the economics of photovoltaic power | Renewable Energy | 2013 | 372 |
| 83 | Renewable energy consumption, carbon emissions, and development stages: Some evidence from panel cointegration analysis | Renewable Energy | 2019 | 369 |
| 84 | Optimal sizing of PV/wind/diesel hybrid microgrid system using multi-objective self-adaptive differential evolution algorithm | Renewable Energy | 2018 | 367 |
| 85 | Anaerobic digestion of lipid-rich waste—Effects of lipid concentration | Renewable Energy | 2007 | 366 |
| 86 | Integration of Renewable Energy Sources in future power systems: The role of storage | Renewable Energy | 2015 | 366 |
| 87 | Comparison of feed-in tariff, quota and auction mechanisms to support wind power development | Renewable Energy | 2008 | 365 |
| 88 | Integration costs revisited – An economic framework for wind and solar variability | Renewable Energy | 2015 | 365 |
| 89 | Combustion and performance evaluation of a diesel engine fueled with biodiesel produced from soybean crude oil | Renewable Energy | 2009 | 364 |
| 90 | Review of optimization techniques applied for the integration of distributed generation from renewable energy sources | Renewable Energy | 2017 | 364 |
| 91 | Prototype testing of the wave energy converter wave dragon | Renewable Energy | 2006 | 362 |
| 92 | A MCRT and FVM coupled simulation method for energy conversion process in parabolic trough solar collector | Renewable Energy | 2011 | 362 |
| 93 | Exergetic analysis of various types of geothermal power plants | Renewable Energy | 2010 | 359 |
| 94 | The prediction and diagnosis of wind turbine faults | Renewable Energy | 2011 | 359 |
| 95 | A procedure to select working fluids for Solar Organic Rankine Cycles (ORCs) | Renewable Energy | 2011 | 359 |
| 96 | Status and barriers of advanced biofuel technologies: A review | Renewable Energy | 2011 | 358 |
| 97 | Biodiesel production using enzymatic transesterification – Current state and perspectives | Renewable Energy | 2012 | 358 |
| 98 | Renewable and non-renewable energy consumption-economic growth nexus: New evidence from South Asia | Renewable Energy | 2020 | 358 |
| 99 | Experimental investigation on a combined sensible and latent heat storage system integrated with constant/varying (solar) heat sources | Renewable Energy | 2007 | 357 |
| 100 | Characterization of Canadian biomass for alternative renewable biofuel | Renewable Energy | 2010 | 357 |
