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

Núria Bautista-Puig (), Jorge Mañana-Rodríguez () and Antonio Eleazar Serrano-López ()
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Núria Bautista-Puig: University of Gävle
Jorge Mañana-Rodríguez: University Carlos III of Madrid
Antonio Eleazar Serrano-López: University Carlos III of Madrid

Scientometrics, 2021, vol. 126, issue 5, No 8, 3892 pages

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Keywords: Journal taxonomy; EBDI; Interdisciplinarity; Specialization; Green and sustainable science and technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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