Comparative Bibliometric Analysis of Social Responsibility Related Literature in Romania and Hungary

Abstract

This paper investigates the trends in the publications on social responsibility in a comparative manner, the papers published on this topic in Romania and Hungary. Given the geographical proximity of these countries, and the cross-border collaboration supported though different European funded projects, we expected to find both cooperation and common approaches in the study of CSR in the two countries. To test these hypotheses, we conducted a bibliometric study on the papers published in scientific journals indexed in Clarivate -World-of-Science on the key words "corporate responsibility" and, respectively "Romania" and "Hungary". We found a great variability both in terms of approaches, the number of published papers (221 in Romania and 64 in Hungary), the journals in which these papers are published. More, we can refute our hypothesis, as the collaboration in this area is rather limited. More, the approaches of these papers, analyzed using the WoS Viewer software, coming from Romania compared to the Hungarian context is very different. Given the increasing interest for the topic of social responsibility, we expect increasing collaboration in this area between the two countries.