Bibliometric Analysis of Social and Environmental Accounting Research and United Nations SDG Achievement

Abstract

This chapter contributes to the knowledge and understanding of recent trends in social and environmental accounting with the Sustainable Development Goal of the UN Agenda 2030. This study has two specific objectives: 1) to analyse the scientific production that crosses the area of SEA with SDG achievement, quantifying the articles published by year and by title of origin, by citation and research network by author, and by journal impact and 2) to identify publications by author, affiliation, and country and by type, subject, and funder. It is important to understand how sustainability accounting research might contribute to responsible business management towards SDG. A bibliometric analysis of articles published in journals in the Scopus database was carried out in the period between 2016 and 2021. The results of this study describe the current state of research in SEA and SDG achievement and provide a framework that can guide researchers.

Digital and Sharing Economy for Sustainable Development: A Bibliometric and Systematic Review

“…The study utilizes several methods in the analysis stage, such as bibliometric analysis, content analysis and systematic literature review (SLR), to provide a quantified qualitative review on the frontier of digitalization and sustainable development. Bibliometric analysis is the attempt to quantitatively assess the academic quality of journals or authors by statistical methods, such as citation rates (Ahamer and Kumpfmüller 2014;Azevedo et al 2022). This method of analysis is useful in extracting publication trends on the studied research areas, which in this case are the digital economy, sharing economy and sustainable development, from the bibliographic information of the past literature.…”