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A Bibliometric Study of the Global Research Activity in Sustainability and Its Dimensions

verfasst von : Rosanna Cataldo, Maria Gabriella Grassia, Carlo Natale Lauro, Marina Marino, Viktoriia Voytsekhovska

Erschienen in: Data Science and Social Research II

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The scientific production on “sustainability” has been increasing in recent years. To better understand and characterize this trend, a bibliometric study of international papers on this subject has been developed. A total of 3,994 articles from 1985 to 2018 have been selected and analyzed in order to discover the research trends in this field and the main dimensions and words related to the term “sustainability” that are most commonly employed in the scientific literature. The research has been conducted in the Web of Science from ISI Web of Knowledge database with the aim of identifying the major themes, authors, areas, types of documents and the sources, titles, years of publication and countries of these publications, as well as the main themes related to the topic “sustainability”.

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Fußnoten
1
Several studies have revealed the importance and role of R and its packages in vast scientific fields.
 
2
For a detailed description of the individual goals, refer to the site “Sustainable Development Goals” (www.​un.​org/​sustainabledevel​opment/​development-agenda/​).
 
3
In the country network the bigger are the node and word, the larger is the weight. The distance between two nodes reflects the strength of the relation between two nodes, a shorter distance generally indicating a stronger relation.
 
4
In the figure the size of the dots is linked to the number of citations per year while the color intensity is related to the number of articles produced.
 
5
In the network in Fig. 5 a line between two keywords represents the fact that they have appeared together. The thicker is the line, the greater is the co-occurrence that they have (Gu et al. 2017). The link strength between two nodes refers to the frequency of the co-occurrence.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
A Bibliometric Study of the Global Research Activity in Sustainability and Its Dimensions
verfasst von
Rosanna Cataldo
Maria Gabriella Grassia
Carlo Natale Lauro
Marina Marino
Viktoriia Voytsekhovska
Copyright-Jahr
2021
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51222-4_8

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