Bibliometric Analysis Of Sustainable And Green Consumption Research From 1974 To 2019

Abstract

The past decade witnessed the resurgence of sustainable consumption due to the strong support offered by companies, consumers, institutions, and society. Nevertheless, examination of sustainable consumption via bibliometric and network analyses is absent from the vast literature. In order to bridge this gap, a bibliometric analysis was performed on all publications related to sustainable consumption in the Scopus database for the period of 1974-2019. Upon analyzing 2352 articles, several parameters were determined, namely the trends in publications, the most popular journals, the productive countries of the most important countries, most of the studies cited and the list of keywords for further description (psychosocial factors).From the selected 160 journals, articles were most-frequently published in Sustainability Switzerland, while the Journal of Consumer Marketing ranked first for total citation. The emergence of sustainable consumption topic was spread across 120 countries and 159 academic institutions. This present study discovered that the United States dominated publication production, whereas Universität Göttingen in Germany was the most productive institution. Upon further systematic analysis using VOS viewer, 5333 keywords were listed. The top four clusters of psychosocial determinants were discussed in light of social norm, attitude, environmental concern, and perceived value. Building on the outcomes retrieved from this analysis, researchers may better plan their studies and contribute better insights of their empirical investigations.

Concept and Measurement of the Food System Sustainability: A Bibliometric Research

“…This study utilises the Scopus collection to form the sample of scientific records for bibliometric analysis. The Scopus provides a comprehensive database of publications analysing citations over a longer period compared to the ISI Web of Science Core Collection (Aria et al, 2020;Nornajihah et al, 2021). The search query was the following: TITLE (sustainab* W/3 *food* W/3 system*)) AND (KEY (concept* OR theor* OR design* OR method* OR metric* OR assess* OR indicator OR measur* OR index* Concept and measurement of the food system sustainability: A bibliometric research OR frame* OR content); only articles, conference papers, reviews, and book chapters included; only English-language; all available years.…”

“…Results of bibliometric analysis of Scopus indexed publications on sustainable consumption for 1974-2019 (2352 documents) made by N.H. Nornajihah et al (2021) evidence the USA dominance in the number of articles published, the University of Göttingen (Germany) leadership in scientific productivity, and the most relevance of the Sustainability Switzerland as a publishing source in this field. Authors also identify four clusters of sustainable consumption psychosocial factors: social norms, attitude, environmental concern, and perceived value (Nornajihah et al, 2021).…”

“…Results of bibliometric analysis of Scopus indexed publications on sustainable consumption for 1974-2019 (2352 documents) made by N.H. Nornajihah et al (2021) evidence the USA dominance in the number of articles published, the University of Göttingen (Germany) leadership in scientific productivity, and the most relevance of the Sustainability Switzerland as a publishing source in this field. Authors also identify four clusters of sustainable consumption psychosocial factors: social norms, attitude, environmental concern, and perceived value (Nornajihah et al, 2021). Studying the food consumption sustainability, Maria Claudia et al, (2019) found consumer and consumption patterns to be the thematic core of the Web of Science covered sample of publications for 1975-2018 with abstracts including "sustainable food consumption" (103 publications) (Maria Claudia et al, 2019).…”

“…Recent studies explore scientific efforts and results concerning the issues of sustainable consumption (Maria Claudia et al, 2019;Nornajihah et al, 2021), sustainable agri-food systems (El Bilali et al, 2021) and their modelling (Monasterolo et al, 2016), halal food system sustainability (Rejeb et al, 2021), sustainability of urban food systems (Zhong et al, 2021) and concrete food supply chain (Both et al, 2021), etc.…”