A Bibliometric Study of Research on Social Responsibility in the Scopus Database

Abstract

The aim of this research is to show a bibliometric study of research related to the term Social Responsibility from different themes, only considering scientific contributions socialized in the Scopus database. To achieve this objective, a search is carried out in the aforementioned database, under the search criteria: "social responsibility" in the title, abstract and keywords of publications such as scientific articles, review articles, conference documents and books. The information detected is processed by the bibliometric tools of the Scopus database itself and is also analyzed with the VOSviewer software. Using this tool, text mining is performed on the information detected under the previously declared search criteria. The main results of this research focus on the following points: 1) Bibliometric analysis of the scientific contributions detected. 2) Discussion of the main research trends in the Social Responsibility theme, through the most cited contributions.