Commons, property law and management: A bibliometric study

Abstract

This paper is a bibliometric review based on the scientific production on the management of common goods, in an interlocution with property rights with data from the Web of Science (WOS) in the period 1945 to 2020. The outcome returned 231 papers that, after applying filters and excluding the papers from 2020, was reduced to 146. Using CiteSpace software, the data were analyzed using 12 categories. The results show that the field is new, but with a growing number of interest, as it has been debated in the academic world and the research has echoed in the Goverment & Law category, which points to the need for a future study to deepen the research through an integrative review.