Title: A bibliographic study of sustainability research: exploring multidimensionality

Authors: Soumyanath Chatterjee; R.P. Mohanty

Addresses: Institute of Technical Education and Research, Sikhsha-O-Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, India ' Sikhsha-O-Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, India

Abstract: Sustainability has gained prominence as a discipline for academics and professional practitioners. This article presents a bibliographic account and related analysis of research in sustainability between 1990 and 2019. A critical study of different aspects of sustainability requires a multi/interdisciplinary systems approach. Such a study may encompass ecological, economical, and sociological perspectives. For this reason, the bibliometric analysis has covered a wide range of professional disciplines. 183,779 bibliographic entries from SCOPUS were analysed with latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) to discover different aspects of publications in sustainability. The study showed that all publications can be classified according to 25 topics, showing how sustainability research has evolved and the consequent gaps that need to be filled for the advancement of the research and community of practice. The LDA analysis resulted in creating a topic model that facilitates the automated categorisation of publications regarding sustainability.

Keywords: sustainability; systematic literature survey; text analytics; latent Dirichlet allocation; LDA; topic model; bibliographic analysis.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2023.134353

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2023 Vol.45 No.2, pp.173 - 213

Received: 20 Aug 2021
Accepted: 24 Dec 2021
Published online: 19 Oct 2023 *

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