Climate Change: A Bibliometric Study of Adaptation, Mitigation and Resilience

Rachel Einecker and Andrew Kirby
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Rachel Einecker: New College, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ 85069, USA
Andrew Kirby: New College, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ 85069, USA

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 17, 1-16

Abstract: The paper uses bibliometric methods to explore the production of knowledge in the field of climate change from 1991–2019. Using the Web of Science database, we demonstrate the growth of publications in the field, including papers in mitigation, adaptation and resilience. Using VOSviewer software, we show the connections between these subfields and the journals in which they are published. The analysis displays clusters of publications in different subfields and minimal convergence of research in STEM fields and the social sciences. We suggest that this lack of convergence may reflect a relative shortage of interdisciplinary research which may in turn have negative outcomes in terms of research and policy.

Keywords: climate change; adaptation; mitigation; resilience; sustainability; bibliometrics; VOSviewer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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