Knowledge Mapping: A Review of the Energy Transition Applied to Brazil

This book chapter aims to map the knowledge on the theme of energy transition applied to Brazil. The methodology applied is the bibliometric review, which uses as input the keywords of this book’s chapters to obtain in the indexed journals portal—Web of Science—published records. Then, they were analyzed and discussed to result in the current map of knowledge on the theme. The results demonstrate that: (i) international exploration in the energy transition is not recent, but the first record identified about energy transition applied to Brazil is from 2007; (ii) the evolution of the number of annual publications can be divided into three periods, the last one (2021–2022), more intense—20 publications against 22 publications in the first two periods; (iii) the number of published records, 42, is scarce, when compared to records that are not specific to Brazil (6191); (iv) the main institutes linked to the records are Brazilian and public; (v) funding is almost exclusively public, 97% of the total; (vi) there are no authors with an evident number of records, maximum of two records for the same author; and (vii) the main keywords are related to energy transition assessment data and indicators and environmental issues. It is concluded that the theme inserted in the Brazilian context is little explored and quoted compared to the theme in the international scope. Thus, expanding funding sources and enabling the formation of new research are needed. Therefore, this chapter was intended to improve the research environment and strengthen the debate with fundamentals, data, information widely discussed and validated, nationally and internationally.