The Sustainable Development Goals and Aerospace Engineering: A critical note through Artificial Intelligence

• DOI: 10.1016/j.rineng.2023.100940
• Publication Date: 2023-02-10T23:12:05Z
• Authors: Alejandro Sánchez...; Òscar Garibo-i-Orts; J. Alberto Conejero; Hamidreza Eivazi; Fermín Mallor; Emelie Rosenberg; Francesco Fuso-Ne...; Javier García-Mar...; Ricardo Vinuesa; Sergio Hoyas
• Keywords: Sustainable Energy

The 2030 Agenda of the United Nations (UN) revolves around Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A critical step towards that objective is identifying whether scientific production aligns with SDGs' achievement. To assess this, funders and research managers need to manually estimate impact their funding agenda on SDGs, focusing accuracy, scalability, objectiveness. With this in mind, work, we develop ASDG, an easy-to-use Artificial-Intelligence-based model for automatically potential papers UN SDGs. As a demonstrator analyze alignment recent aerospace publications Aerospace data set analyzed paper consists approximately 820,000 published English from 2011 2020 indexed Scopus database. most-contributed SDGs are 7 (on clean energy), 9 industry), 11 sustainable cities), 13 climate action). establishment by middle 2010 decade did not significantly affect data. However, find clear discrepancies among countries, likely indicative different priorities. Also, trends can be seen most least cited papers, apparent differences some Finally, number abstracts code cannot identify decreases time, possibly showing community's awareness SDG.