Ellili Nejla Ould Daoud
College of Business, Abu Dhabi University, P.O. Box 59911, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Environ Dev Sustain. 2023 Mar 19:1-27. doi: 10.1007/s10668-023-03067-6.
This study aims to highlight the current trends in the literature on sustainability by applying a bibliometric review of papers on sustainability published in . Bibliometric analysis is a quantitative approach to bibliographic materials that highlights the core theoretical and empirical research on a specific field. In addition, it allows the classification of previous studies. Previous bibliometric reviewers were limited to sustainability papers in specific industries, while this study considers all papers on sustainability to provide further insights on overall sustainability topics. The analysis was based on keyword cartography analysis, bibliometric authors' citation analysis, bibliometric papers' citation analysis, bibliometric references' co-citation analysis, journals' co-citation cartography, and qualitative content analysis. A total of 997 articles on sustainability were reviewed. Bibliometric analysis was performed using VOSviewer and content analysis was performed using WordStat. Six major clusters were identified: environmental sustainability, sustainable development, urban sustainability, ecological footprint, environment, and climate change. In addition, the results reveal that has increasingly experienced important growth in research papers and citations, reflecting its significant contribution to the sustainability research field. In addition, this study presents recommendations for future research opportunities in the field of sustainability. The findings of this study have implications for sustainability research, such as the assessment of environmental and social sustainability in multinational institutional contexts and across industries as well as the examination of the impact of environmental and social sustainability on different corporate aspects and decisions. This study is the only one to review the key topics on which papers published in are focused and can be largely used for sustainability practices. This study provides an overview of how the literature on sustainability has developed, as well as a summary of the most productive authors, along with countries, organizations, and journal sources. This offers an opportunity for future research to focus on this topic.
本研究旨在通过对发表于……的关于可持续性的论文进行文献计量学综述，突出文献中当前的可持续性趋势。文献计量分析是一种针对文献资料的定量方法，它突出了特定领域的核心理论和实证研究。此外，它还能对先前的研究进行分类。以往的文献计量综述仅限于特定行业的可持续性论文，而本研究考虑了所有关于可持续性的论文，以提供关于整体可持续性主题的进一步见解。该分析基于关键词图谱分析、文献计量作者引文分析、文献计量论文引文分析、文献计量参考文献共引分析、期刊共引图谱以及定性内容分析。总共审查了997篇关于可持续性的文章。使用VOSviewer进行文献计量分析，使用WordStat进行内容分析。确定了六个主要聚类：环境可持续性、可持续发展、城市可持续性、生态足迹、环境和气候变化。此外，结果显示……在研究论文和引文方面越来越多地经历了重要增长，反映了其对可持续性研究领域的重大贡献。此外，本研究还提出了可持续性领域未来研究机会的建议。本研究的结果对可持续性研究具有启示意义，例如在跨国机构背景下和跨行业评估环境和社会可持续性，以及考察环境和社会可持续性对不同企业层面和决策的影响。本研究是唯一一篇综述发表于……的论文所关注的关键主题的研究，并且在很大程度上可用于可持续性实践。本研究概述了可持续性文献的发展情况，以及最有成果的作者、国家、组织和期刊来源的总结。这为未来的研究提供了一个关注该主题的机会。
