CiteSpace-Based Visualization Analysis on the Trombe Wall in Solar Buildings
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Trombe Wall is indeed a name for a system with a glass and an airgap and then a wall, and using the heated air from the inside the two layers to preheat air or generate natural ventilation. However, there have been extensive research on the same principle, without using the name of Trombe Wall. For exemple all research related to "vertical channel heated on one side", "solar chimney", are based on the same principle as the trombe wall and should be considered. And there are thousands of articles related to this aspect.
Basing this study on the key-words Trombe Wall excludes all these researches, which actually present all the main novelties and knowledge on this type of system.
For exemple some highly cited documents that you do not use the term Trombe wall but use the same principle and their are many other
Khanal and Lei (145 citations): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.03.035
Authors used 'absolute' values in terms of number of publications per countries to demonstrate the interest of each country for this topic. I would rather used relative indicators such as publications per inhabitants or publications per scientists.
l.50 'The Trombe Wall is one of the most widely used methods of solar energy utilization at present, ...' I am surprised of that. I did not know Trombe Wall was actually used a lot. Any reference?
l.117 " The first period is the "preliminary development period", spanning from 1991 to 117 2006" in your introduction you mention that Pr. Trombe invented the Trombe wall in 1956. What happened between 1956 and 1991? Why is this perios excluded?
l.500 Energy and Construction? You mean Energy and Building?
There are numerous words that seems to be not well translated
Author Response
Comment 1.Trombe Wall is indeed a name for a system with a glass and an airgap and then a wall, and using the heated air from the inside the two layers to preheat air or generate natural ventilation. However, there have been extensive research on the same principle, without using the name of Trombe Wall. For exemple all research related to "vertical channel heated on one side", "solar chimney", are based on the same principle as the trombe wall and should be considered. And there are thousands of articles related to this aspect.Basing this study on the key-words Trombe Wall excludes all these researches, which actually present all the main novelties and knowledge on this type of system. For exemple some highly cited documents that you do not use the term Trombe wall but use the same principle and their are many otherKhanal and Lei (145citations): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.03.035
Response 1. We thank the reviewer for raising this question.
Firstly,the term "Trombe Wall" is a recognized systematic term in the academic community of related fields, and many review studies directly refer to the name "Trombe Wall", such as https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2012.06.032 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2016.12.003.
Secondly, for example, the term "solar chimney" mentioned by you can be found in our research that as researchers continue to delve deeper into the study of the Trombe Wall, the keyword "solar chimney" has been derived because, as you mentioned, they use the same principle. However,solar chimney is not the enclosure structure we are studying, so we did not search for it as a keyword.
Finally, we have also attempted to use its working principle as a keyword for search, but the search results were not satisfactory, with many articles in unrelated research fields appearing. Therefore, we did not make any modifications to this suggestion.We still appreciate your suggestion.
Comment 2.Authors used 'absolute' values in terms of number of publications per countries to demonstrate the interest of each country for this topic. I would rather used relative indicators such as publications per inhabitants or publications per scientists.
Response 2.We are so grateful for your kind question.
Firstly, we have provided a detailed analysis of the number of publications per core author in the following text.
Secondly, our ultimate goal in counting the number of publications in each country is not to obtain the research interest of each country. What we want to reveal is the cooperative relationship between countries, and the most important thing is to verify thenotable geographical alignment between the geographical distribution of research regions about the Trombe Wall and solar radiation resources.Therefore, we did not make any modifications to this suggestion.We still appreciate your suggestion.
Comment 3.50 'The Trombe Wall is one of the most widely used methods of solar energy utilization at present, ...' I am surprised of that. I did not know Trombe Wall was actually used a lot. Any reference?
Response 3.We thank the reviewer for raising this question.
'The Trombe Wall is one of the most widely used methods of solar energy utilization at present, ...' This sentence is indeed not rigorous enough, so we have made modifications.
51‘The Trombe Wall is one of the most effective systems among passive heating systems [7,8], ...'
Comment 4.117 " The first period is the "preliminary development period", spanning from 1991 to 117 2006" in your introduction you mention that Pr. Trombe invented the Trombe wall in 1956. What happened between 1956 and 1991? Why is this perios excluded?
Response 4.We are so grateful for your kind question.
104'The articles were firstly searched with a longer time span and it was found there are few publications before 1991,therefore...'We have added an explanation to this issue.
Comment 5.500 Energy and Construction? You mean Energy and Building?
Response 5.We thank the reviewer for raising this question.
We apologize for any negligence in this small detail. 600 We have made modifications to this.
Finally, thank you for taking the time to provide valuable feedback on our article.
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Reviewer 2 Report
The article provides an interesting literature review on Trombe Wall in solar buildings. The aim of the authors is not to go into the technological aspects of Trombe Wall but to highlight the state of research on this technology.
The article highlights the historical development of the research and its geographical spread.
These data can be very interesting for researchers working on this topic.
In the abstract, the authors write that the article will report "theoretical guidance for subsequent research".
In my opinion, however, this part is somewhat limited in the concluding part of the article.
For example, the main obstacles to wider dissemination of this technology (materials, costs, efficiency, durability, acceptability,...) are not reported, and thus what would require more attention. This topic is briefly mentioned in the final part of the paragraph before the conclusions. I would ask for a more in-depth examination of these aspects.
There are some typing errors in the text that need to be revised.
Author Response
Comment 1.However, this part is somewhat limited in the concluding part of the article.
For example, the main obstacles to wider dissemination of this technology (materials, costs, efficiency, durability, acceptability,...) are not reported, and thus what would require more attention. This topic is briefly mentioned in the final part of the paragraph before the conclusions. I would ask for a more in-depth examination of these aspects.
Response 1. We are so grateful for your kind question.We have provided a detailed explanation of the main obstacles that limit the wider dissemination of this technology, combined with references. It was also summarized in the final conclusion section.
Finally, thank you for taking the time to provide valuable feedback on our article.
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Reviewer 3 Report
The manuscript aims to "analyze the visual knowledge map of the relevant articles in the WOS core collection database from 1991 to 2003 by using CiteSpace visualization software, collates the relevant research articles in the field of the Trombe Wall in an objective and scientific way."
Major revisions:
- Authors should arrange the paper following the requirements of the journal. Sustainability requires structured reviews to use the same structure as research articles and ensure they conform to the PRISMA guidelines. Please find the PRISMA 2020 statement (https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n71). The authors have to describe the article's purpose and research methodology more clearly.
- Authors should rely on the latest relevant research when justifying rationality and identifying research gaps. The number of most recent publications needs to be increased (now the reference list includes about 30% of recent publications).
- Authors should provide back matter information (e.g., Author Contributions, Institutional Review Board Statement).
Editing of the English language is required.
Author Response
Comment 1.Authors should arrange the paper following the requirements of the journal. Sustainability requires structured reviews to use the same structure as research articles and ensure they conform to the PRISMA guidelines. Please find the PRISMA 2020 statement (https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n71). The authors have to describe the article's purpose and research methodology more clearly.
Response 1.We thank the reviewer for raising this question.
11-22 136-145 We have redefined the purpose and research methods of the article.
Comment 2.Authors should rely on the latest relevant research when justifying rationality and identifying research gaps. The number of most recent publications needs to be increased (now the reference list includes about 30% of recent publications).
Response 2.We are so grateful for your kind question.
We have revised and adjusted the references and increased their quantity.Currently, the reference list includes about 30% of recent publications.
Comment 3.Authors should provide back matter information (e.g., Author Contributions, Institutional Review Board Statement).
Response 3.We thank the reviewer for raising this question.
627-634 We have added back matter information such as author contributions at the end of the article.
Finally, thank you for taking the time to provide valuable feedback on our article.
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Reviewer 4 Report
In this paper author summarise the CiteSpace-Based Visualization Analysis on the Trombe Wall in Solar Buildings and find that the research process of the Trombe Wall. The work carried out by author is appreciated and the following comments need to consider before publication:
1. In the introduction section literature review need to enhance by discussing elaborately for strengthen the review part for clear understanding.
2. The summary of the literature review along with research gap is needs to add at the end of introduction section.
3. Figures 1-10 quality need to improve with good visibility of text and appearance.
4. Figure 9 and 10 need to discuss clearly related to citation and keywords.
5. In the entire article need to check few minor spell and grammar errors to improve quality of the article.
6. The novelty and contribution of presented research need to mention in the article.
7. The data available in Table 1 to 9 not discussed clearly for readers understanding.
8. Section 3.5 analysis of Journals and High-Frequency Co-Cited References not effectively analysed. So need to update.
After the revision of article based on above mentioned comments the article is consider for possible publication.
Need to check few minor spell and grammar errors.
Ø Review decision is ACCEPTED after revisions based on comments.
Author Response
Comment 1.In the introduction section literature review need to enhance by discussing elaborately for strengthen the review part for clear understanding.
Response 1.We are so grateful for your kind question.
61-77 We have added a literature review in the introduction section to enhance persuasiveness and understanding.
Comment 2.The summary of the literature review along with research gap is needs to add at the end of introduction section.
Response 2.We thank the reviewer for raising this question.
78-85 We have summarized the previous literature review and pointed out the shortcomings as well as the novelty of our research in this review.
Comment 3.Figures 1-10 quality need to improve with good visibility of text and appearance.
Response 3.We are so grateful for your kind question.
We have edited the image again.
Comment 4.Figure 9 and 10 need to discuss clearly related to citation and keywords.
Response 4.We thank the reviewer for raising this question.
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We have made modifications to this and rediscussed the citation content related to keywords.
Comment 5.In the entire article need to check few minor spell and grammar errors to improve quality of the article.
Response 5.We are so grateful for your kind question.
We have made modifications to this.
Comment 6.The novelty and contribution of presented research need to mention in the article.
Response 6.We thank the reviewer for raising this question.
11-22;78-93 We mentioned the novelty and contribution of presented research in the article.
Comment 7.The data available in Table 1 to 9 not discussed clearly for readers understanding.
Response 7.We are so grateful for your kind question.
102-109;275-280;296-305;319-324;341-362;388-397;414-422
We have revisited the data information in all tables in greater detail. However,our article is a review of research and lists a large amount of data for readers, so not every data will be mentioned in detail. For tables with a large amount of information, we only interpret important information for readers.
Comment 8.Section 3.5 analysis of Journals and High-Frequency Co-Cited References not effectively analysed. So need to update.
Response 8.We thank the reviewer for raising this question.
341-362 We have conducted a more detailed analysis of the high-frequency co-cited references in 3.5.2.
Finally, thank you for taking the time to provide valuable feedback on our article.
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Round 2
Reviewer 3 Report
Accept in present form
