A bibliographic study of sustainability research: exploring multidimensionality

Soumyanath Chatterjee and R.P. Mohanty

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2023, vol. 45, issue 2, 173-213

Abstract: Sustainability has gained prominence as a discipline for academics and professional practitioners. This article presents a bibliographic account and related analysis of research in sustainability between 1990 and 2019. A critical study of different aspects of sustainability requires a multi/interdisciplinary systems approach. Such a study may encompass ecological, economical, and sociological perspectives. For this reason, the bibliometric analysis has covered a wide range of professional disciplines. 183,779 bibliographic entries from SCOPUS were analysed with latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) to discover different aspects of publications in sustainability. The study showed that all publications can be classified according to 25 topics, showing how sustainability research has evolved and the consequent gaps that need to be filled for the advancement of the research and community of practice. The LDA analysis resulted in creating a topic model that facilitates the automated categorisation of publications regarding sustainability.

Keywords: sustainability; systematic literature survey; text analytics; latent Dirichlet allocation; LDA; topic model; bibliographic analysis. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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