While the need and general direction of the energy transition are widely accepted, the implementation has different dynamics throughout the world. Sociotechnical imaginaries concept, bridging the science, policy, and society, seems promising in understanding and explaining the global differences. The present paper analyses 135 abstracts that contain the topic keywords, sociotechnical imaginaries, published in international, peer-reviewed scientific journals during the last 11 years. Further on, the author conducted a qualitative and quantitative analysis of 43 energy-related articles to offer a panoramic overview of sociotechnical imaginaries in energy research out of the more extensive background. The paper aims to present a critical overview of the concept usage in energy studies to identify incoherences and blind spots in concept usage. What is more, this research intents to show the promising direction of using sociotechnical imaginaries. It also proposes new operationalisation and theoretical frame as well as potentially contributes to policymaking.

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捕捉看不见的东西。能源的社会技术想象。批判性概述

虽然能源转型的需求和总体方向已被广泛接受，但在全球范围内实施的动态却不尽相同。社会技术想象概念，连接科学、政策和社会，在理解和解释全球差异方面似乎很有希望。本文分析了过去 11 年发表在国际同行评审科学期刊上的 135 篇包含主题关键词、社会技术想象的摘要。进一步，作者对 43 篇与能源相关的文章进行了定性和定量分析，以提供更广泛背景下能源研究中的社会技术想象的全景概述。本文旨在对能源研究中的概念使用进行批判性概述，以识别概念使用中的不连贯性和盲点。更重要的是，这项研究旨在展示使用社会技术想象的有希望的方向。它还提出了新的操作化和理论框架，并可能有助于决策。