Identification and analysis of the highly cited knowledge base of sustainability science

Buter, R.K.; Raan, Anthony F. J. van

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“…This method is valued due to its capability to analyze specific research areas, and draw valuable conclusions [11], using objective information in an easily handled way [12]. As a result, the technique is widely used to identify, among other things, the development of several topics, fields, or areas.There is some literature that analyzes the structure of sustainability [13][14][15][16][17] using bibliometrics. More specifically, regarding management, marketing, and economic fields, there are bibliometric analyses of particular areas, such as the relationship between sustainability and innovation [18]; green innovation [19]; social innovation [20]; sustainability and information technology [21]; sustainability research in marketing [22]; green and sustainable supply chain management and sustainable logistics [23-25]; resilience thinking in socioecological research [26]; resilience applied to regional development [27], green-, circular-, and bio-economy research [28,29]; and ecological economics [30].…”

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Tourism and Sustainability: A Bibliometric and Visualization Analysis

Garrigós‐Simón

Narangajavana-Kaosiri

2018

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Sustainability is a growing research topic in tourism due to the importance of environmental and social issues, and the maintenance of patrimony and other facilities to conserve the potential of tourism destinations. Specifically, sustainability in tourism is crucial in order to guarantee a consistent development of destinations, measured by growth in income and employment. This relevance has been translated into an explosive growth in the sustainability literature regarding tourism, income, and employment. However, there is a lack of bibliometric and visualization research on tourism sustainability (TS), and specifically on its relationship with income and employment. This paper aims to present a bibliometric overview of TS research, and specifically TS related to income and employment. The current work analyzed 2279 references collected from the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection database and used the visualization of similarities (VOS)viewer program to graphically map the material. The study used co-occurrence of keywords, co-citation, bibliographic coupling, and co-authorship analyses. The results identify the development status and the leading trends in terms of impact, main journals, papers, topics, authors, institutions, and countries. The analysis and graphical presentations are relevant, as they can help researchers and practitioners better understand the state of the art of TS. explains the concept of TS and the relevance of bibliometrics for analyzing TS research by explaining bibliometrics in sustainable tourism. Then, it will look at the lack of bibliometrics in TS, considering its relationship with income and employment, and, finally, the relevance and contributions of our research.The concept of TS derives mainly from the broad terms of sustainability and sustainable development, although it has its own peculiarities, "the idea of sustainability in tourism has emerged as a new paradigm" [1] (p. 1123). The definition of sustainability is elusive (it is estimated that there are more than 300 definitions [6]). However, it emphasizes the need to preserve limited resources for future generations. Therefore, one of the most accepted definitions of sustainable development, that of Brundtland [7] (p. 43), defines it as "development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". The concept of sustainable development "has provided a platform on which different stakeholders in tourism can interact, negotiate, and reflect on their actions' consequences for the environment" and "the basic ideas and principles of sustainable development have been applied to tourism" [1] (p. 1124). However, the more specific concept of sustainable tourism also suffers an ambiguity in its definition [8] and has an integrative and multidimensional character that makes the concept difficult to quantify [9]. This has led to the appearance of conceptual, definitional papers, meaning that the debate about the concept has involved continuous, ongoing, unresolved c...

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Tourism and Sustainability: A Bibliometric and Visualization Analysis

Garrigós‐Simón

Narangajavana-Kaosiri

2018

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“…Sherren et al [44] explored the structure and organization of interdisciplinary academic departments of sustainability in two Australian universities and reported on the pluses and minuses of research collaboration, mentoring, supervision, rewards and training. Buter and Van Raan [9] created an HCKB (Highly Cited Knowledge Base) to identify three major themes in sustainability science disciplinary "pillars" (environment, economic, and sociology); they noted the rich diversity of studies in different disciplines, but also noted that truly transdisciplinary fields are still not fully developed. Yarime et al [3] also used bibliometric data to explore the amount of international research collaboration on sustainable topics; one of their key findings was that scholars in most countries work on research projects within their own region; scholars from the U.S. and China are exceptions.…”

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“…Most of these studies used similar databases, Web of Science, SCI and SSCI, to graph the increased volume of research articles published on sustainability science in general or in specific fields and disciplines and examine the rankings of journals. Some contributions, it should be noted, included some creative and colorful maps and graphs that show the core and peripheral knowledge communities and convergence research areas [7][8][9]26,27,[45][46][47][48][49][50], national and international networks [3], increased interdisciplinary networks [6,26], and the countries of authors [35].…”

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“…A number of scholars have used journal citations and rankings to identify the leading outlets for research in various fields [2,5,9,25,26,32]. The Web of Science, Webometrics and the impact factors have been used.…”

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“…The subject of sustainability, and its many subfields including sustainable development, energy, architecture, tourism, and law, is a relatively new disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research focus. Buter and van Raan [9] (p. 253) note that sustainability development "is a complex, multifaceted topic that has political, environmental and sociological aspects." Because of the relative newness of the field and its transdisciplinary nature, one would expect there would be some differences or variations in what we currently know, even when examining knowledge from cyberspace sources.…”

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Cyberspace Knowledge Gaps and Boundaries in Sustainability Science: Topics, Regions, Editorial Teams and Journals

Brunn

2014

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Abstract:The scholarly world of sustainability science is one that is international and interdisciplinary, but is one, on close reading of research contributions, editoral teams, journal citations, and geographic coverage, that has much unevenness. The focus of this paper is on the cyberspace boundaries between and within fields and disciplines studying sustainability; these boundaries separate knowledge gaps or uneven patterns in sustainability scholarship.

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Role taxonomy of green and sustainable science and technology journals: exportation, importation, specialization and interdisciplinarity

2021

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Sustainability science is, per se, a topic that is inherently interdisciplinarity and oriented towards the resolution of societal problems. In this paper, we propose a classification of scientific journals that composes the journal category “Green and Sustainable Science and Technology” in the period 2014–2018 through the entropy-based disciplinarity indicator (EBDI). This indicator allows the classification of scientific journals in four types based on the citing and cited dimensions: knowledge importer, knowledge exporter, disciplinary and interdisciplinarity. Moreover, the relationship between this taxonomy and the JCR bibliometric indicators and its predictive capacity of the taxonomy is explored through a CHAID tree. As well, relations between the Web of Science categories, journals and taxonomy are explored by the co-occurrence of categories and correspondence analysis. Results suggest that the great majority of journals in this field are specialized or interdisciplinary. However, over the 5-year period proposed in this study, interdisciplinary journals tend to be far more stable than specialized ones. The decision tree has shown that the number of citations is the variable with the greatest discriminating capacity.

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Identification and analysis of the highly cited knowledge base of sustainability science

Cited by 29 publications

References 28 publications

Tourism and Sustainability: A Bibliometric and Visualization Analysis

Tourism and Sustainability: A Bibliometric and Visualization Analysis

Cyberspace Knowledge Gaps and Boundaries in Sustainability Science: Topics, Regions, Editorial Teams and Journals

Role taxonomy of green and sustainable science and technology journals: exportation, importation, specialization and interdisciplinarity

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