# Most-cited Energy papers of 2022, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Energy research papers published in 2022, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. [Water electrolysis: from textbook knowledge to the latest scientific strategies and industrial developments](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4280617757) · 1,999 citations
2. [An overview of water electrolysis technologies for green hydrogen production](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4307216141) · 1,516 citations
3. [A Global Assessment: Can Renewable Energy Replace Fossil Fuels by 2050?](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4224246016) · 1,434 citations · Free PDF
4. [A comprehensive review of stationary energy storage devices for large scale renewable energy sources grid integration](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4211006056) · 1,212 citations
5. [A comprehensive study of renewable energy sources: Classifications, challenges and suggestions](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4293879976) · 1,127 citations
6. [Cost, environmental impact, and resilience of renewable energy under a changing climate: a review](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4307479757) · 1,041 citations · Free PDF
7. [Unraveling the dual defect sites in graphite carbon nitride for ultra-high photocatalytic H 2 O 2 evolution](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4205093237) · 931 citations
8. [Energy storage systems: a review](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4285405215) · 912 citations
9. [Solar-Driven Hydrogen Production: Recent Advances, Challenges, and Future Perspectives](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4214618205) · 893 citations
10. [Recent advances and perspectives for solar-driven water splitting using particulate photocatalysts](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4223534293) · 877 citations
11. [Microalgae-based wastewater treatment: Mechanisms, challenges, recent advances, and future prospects](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4295123517) · 812 citations
12. [Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline Environment: Material Challenges and Solutions](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4220678590) · 783 citations
13. [Renewable and sustainable clean energy development and impact on social, economic, and environmental health](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4284988415) · 769 citations
14. [Unraveling the electronegativity-dominated intermediate adsorption on high-entropy alloy electrocatalysts](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4280561292) · 759 citations · Free PDF
15. [Subnanometric Ru clusters with upshifted D band center improve performance for alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4284975943) · 748 citations · Free PDF
16. [Understanding of Oxygen Redox in the Oxygen Evolution Reaction](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4286212639) · 712 citations
17. [Large-scale hydrogen production via water electrolysis: a techno-economic and environmental assessment](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4286357414) · 687 citations · Free PDF
18. [Activating lattice oxygen in NiFe-based (oxy)hydroxide for water electrolysis](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4224218813) · 672 citations · Free PDF
19. [The economics and the environmental benignity of different colors of hydrogen](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4220754493) · 671 citations
20. [Engineering Dual Single‐Atom Sites on 2D Ultrathin N‐doped Carbon Nanosheets Attaining Ultra‐Low‐Temperature Zinc‐Air Battery](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4205192238) · 659 citations
21. [Comparative assessment of blue hydrogen from steam methane reforming, autothermal reforming, and natural gas decomposition technologies for natural gas-producing regions](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4207064172) · 616 citations
22. [Reversible hydrogen spillover in Ru-WO3-x enhances hydrogen evolution activity in neutral pH water splitting](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4295900394) · 615 citations · Free PDF
23. [Insights into the activity of single-atom Fe-N-C catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4224222060) · 612 citations · Free PDF
24. [Electrochemical Water Splitting: Bridging the Gaps Between Fundamental Research and Industrial Applications](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4281742264) · 606 citations
25. [RuO2 electronic structure and lattice strain dual engineering for enhanced acidic oxygen evolution reaction performance](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4283766298) · 600 citations · Free PDF

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