Corrigendum to “The front-end of eco-innovation for eco-innovative small and medium sized companies” [J. Eng. Technol. Manage. 31 (2014) 43–57]

The evolution of eco-innovation and its impact on the political, social, and environmental spheres in the period 1996-2022: state of the art and bibliometric study

“…An average increase of 67 documents in scientific production is forecast. On the other hand, the author with the highest number of citations is [2,3], followed by [49] and [44]. Likewise, the journal that ranks first in eco-innovation publications is the Journal of Cleaner Production, with 30,476 citations and 514 documents, during our study period.…”

“…3 shows the top ten authors by number of citations. Among these, we can find [3], with 1293 citations with the article "A Literature and Practice Review to Develop Sustainable Business Model Archetypes", published in the journal Building and Environment, with a Q1 quartile. In second place, we find [48][49][50], with three publications accumulating 1,168 citations in the journals Journal of Cleaner Production, Energy Policy, Environmental Innovation and, Societal Transitions; the third place is for [44], with the publication "Redefining innovation -Research on eco-innovation and the contribution of ecological economics" with 1,129 citations.…”

“…The Journal of Cleaner Production is the most significant source of ecoinnovation documents, with 514 publications that gathered 30,476 citations in the study period 1996-2022, followed by the journal Sustainability with 3,762 citations and 271 papers. The journals that precede the main one show contrast in the number of articles and citations; that is, the number of documents is less, but the number of sources is higher; the journal Ecological Economics has a more significant number of citations (8,125 with 48 documents), while Energy Policy has the same number of documents ( 48), but with a lower number of citations (3,788). On the other hand, the journal Business Strategy and The Environment has 5,181 citations and 156 papers.…”

“…Along the same lines, eco-innovation is focused on sustainable business models (SBM) to obtain a competitive advantage [3]. On the other hand, eco-innovations capacity must be considered in its design, which is vital to create business opportunities while contributing to a sustainable society [6].…”

“…The red cluster is led by [52], and this cluster is joined by the yellow, orange, and blue groups. The authors who stand out from these are the following [7,45], due to the density of their circle; in the blue cluster, the author stands out [3], and this cluster is connecting to the purple collection, where the author stands out [24]. The authors with the highest density in the following green and light blue sets are [20,40].…”