TY - JOUR
T1 - Literature trend identification of sustainable technology innovation
T2 - A bibliometric study based on co-citation and main path analysis
AU - Zhang, Ben
AU - Ma, Lei
AU - Liu, Zheng
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/10/19
Y1 - 2020/10/19
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Bibliometric analysis
KW - Co-citation network
KW - Literature citation network
KW - Main path analysis
KW - Sustainable technology innovation
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U2 - 10.3390/su12208664
DO - 10.3390/su12208664
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85093111100
SN - 2071-1050
VL - 12
SP - 1
EP - 20
JO - Sustainability (Switzerland)
JF - Sustainability (Switzerland)
IS - 20
M1 - 8664
ER -
