Zhang, Ben, Ma, Lei and Liu, Zheng ORCID: 0000-0002-5979-5632 (2020) Literature trend identification of sustainable technology innovation: a bibliometric study based on co-citation and main path analysis. Sustainability, 12 (20):8664. pp. 1-20. ISSN 2071-1050 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208664)

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Abstract

In the past 20 years, there have been increasingly more studies on sustainable technology innovation (STI), possessing a significance for sustainable development. This paper aims to provide a research landscape, since the systematic understanding of STI is still inadequate. Through bibliometric analysis, it explores the literature distribution characteristics and the literature citation network. Based on the relevant literature data in the Web of Science (WOS), the study visually analyzes the development trend, topic distribution, burst literature, and co-citation network of the research literature, and extracts the evolution path of literature citation by using the main path analysis method. Through the analysis of co-citation and main path, 13 clusters in the co-citation network are found, which are further extracted as the main path network containing 82 nodes. Furthermore, this paper summarized the bibliometric landscape and discussed the frontier STI research topics. The comprehensive framework contributes to the understanding of STI themes and identifying future research agenda.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This article belongs to the Special Issue Ambidextrous Open Innovation for Sustainability.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sustainable technology innovation; literature citation network; bibliometric analysis; co-citation network; main path analysis
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) T Technology > T Technology (General) Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Business
Last Modified:	08 Mar 2024 13:32
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/46123

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