TY - GEN A1 - Lu, Linna A1 - Wein, Amanda T1 - How Open is Energy Research: A Bibliometric Analysis of Open Access and Data Sharing within the NFDI4Energy Framework T2 - Themenkreis 5: Digitalität und KI/ Wie offen sind wir? (24.06.2025, 13:00 - 15:30, Halle 4.1./ Raum V) N2 - The transition to sustainable energy systems requires, among other things, the implementation of open science practices, including adopting open access publications, transparent data-sharing mechanisms, and collaborative frameworks. NFDI4Energy, part of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) initiative in Germany, aims to enhance data management and accessibility in energy research, advancing open science principles. However, the current extent of openness within energy research remains insufficiently explored. This study addresses two pivotal questions: To what extent do researchers in the energy domain follow open access publishing and data sharing practices? What trends and challenges emerge within the field of energy research? A bibliometric analysis was conducted using OpenAlex, an open metadata platform for scholarly outputs, to assess patterns of open access publications, data-sharing mentions, and collaboration networks in energy research. The preliminary findings indicate that openness in energy research exhibits variability across different subfields. Renewable energy research demonstrates a higher proportion of both general and open access publications, while data sharing remains sporadic, with few references to reusable datasets in publications. This presents a range of potential challenges, which were also elaborated upon in further detail in the study. While the use of OpenAlex ensures adherence to open data principles, there are also limitations, such as the potential for gaps and duplicates in the metadata, as well as difficulties in tracing implicit data sharing practices. Nevertheless, these findings already contribute to an understanding of the current state of openness in energy research and inform strategies within the NFDI4Energy consortium and for energy research to promote fair and transparent scientific practices. Y1 - 2025 ER -