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Sustainable Environment
An international journal of environmental health and sustainability
Volume 8, 2022 - Issue 1
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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT & CONSERVATION

The development of research on environmental, social, and governance (ESG): A bibliometric analysis

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Article: 2125869 | Received 11 Mar 2022, Accepted 09 Sep 2022, Published online: 29 Sep 2022

Figures & data

Figure 1. Yearly and cumulative number of publications on ESG from 2006 to 2021.

Figure 1. Yearly and cumulative number of publications on ESG from 2006 to 2021.

Table 1. Categorization of articles into document types—number of publications, percentage of publications, and number of citations received

Figure 2. Trends in the relation between the average number of citations per publication and publication life.

Figure 2. Trends in the relation between the average number of citations per publication and publication life.

Table 2. Ten most prominent Scopus subject areas with the number of publications received

Table 3. Ten most prominent journals, based on the distribution of the highest number of articles

Figure 3. Co-citation network for the cited sources using VOSviewer.

Figure 3. Co-citation network for the cited sources using VOSviewer.

Table 4. Environmental, social, and governance articles categorized by affiliation

Table 5. Top ten most productive authors in the environmental, social, and governance field

Table 6. Top ten most frequently cited articles

Figure 4. Visual representation of the cited authors’ co-citation network using VOSviewer.

Figure 4. Visual representation of the cited authors’ co-citation network using VOSviewer.

Table 7. Top ten countries by number of publications

Figure 5. Network analysis of co-authorship based on countries.

Figure 5. Network analysis of co-authorship based on countries.

Figure 6. Co-occurrence analysis of author keywords.

Figure 6. Co-occurrence analysis of author keywords.

Data availability statement

The authors confirm that the data supporting the findings of this study are available within the article itself. The raw data, whereas are deposited with Mendeley Data, V1, doi: 10.17632/hsdgt7rbk7.1. https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/hsdgt7rbk7