New paper with Brian Boyle, Yen-Chieh Liao, Sarah King, and Robin Rauner published in Energy Research & Social Science: “Catalysts for Progress? Mapping Policy Insights from Energy Research” Paper (open access): doi.org/10.1016/j.er... Funded by @researchireland.bsky.social Thread below 1/5 - ThreadSky

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stefanmueller.bsky.social • 11 days ago

New paper with Brian Boyle, Yen-Chieh Liao, Sarah King, and Robin Rauner published in Energy Research & Social Science: “Catalysts for Progress? Mapping Policy Insights from Energy Research”

Paper (open access): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.103955
Funded by @researchireland.bsky.social

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stefanmueller.bsky.social•11 days ago

Energy research plays a vital role in achieving climate targets of a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and net zero by 2050. Policymakers call for engagement with expertise from the academic community, but connecting scientific evidence to policy remains challenging.

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stefanmueller.bsky.social•11 days ago

We develop a custom dictionary – which outperforms state-of-the-art machine learning – to identify policy-relevant papers from the top 100 journals covering energy research.
15% of abstracts contain policy-relevant statements, with variation across authors’ regions and journals’ aims & scope.

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stefanmueller.bsky.social•11 days ago

Next, we apply unsupervised topic models to identify distinct clusters in policy-relevant abstracts. The topics of Renewable Energy and Implementation are most prevalent but have declined since 2010, while the focus on Energy Systems and Emissions has gradually increased.

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stefanmueller.bsky.social•11 days ago

Our findings can shed light on the factors that shape policy engagement, which will play a pivotal role in developing pathways to net zero. The analysis also reveals that dictionary classification – a simple, easily interpretable text analysis method – is still useful in the era of LLMs.

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