Title: Green intellectual capital: a bibliometric analysis

Authors: Abhilasha Mer; Ajay Saini

Addresses: School of Management, Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun, India ' School of Management, Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun, India

Abstract: This study offers a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of Green Intellectual Capital (GIC) using 126 documents from Scopus database over the past 15 years. This study employs VOSviewer as vital instrument which explores scientific productivity, key authors, institutions, countries, co-citations, keyword co-occurrence, and thematic mapping. The highest productivity of 60 publications was observed in 2023. Taiwan's National Yunlin University of Science and Technology and Malaysia were the most impactful institution and country, respectively, with Journal of Cleaner Production as the most influential and Journal of Intellectual Capital as the most productive journals. The article, The Positive Effect of Green Intellectual Capital on Competitive Advantages of Firms, was observed the most cited article. This study also identified five thematic clusters within GIC research, this investigation holds notable originality and value as the first study to offer comprehensive scientific mapping, performance analysis and significantly to the evolving landscape of investigations within this domain.

Keywords: green intellectual capital; GIC; green structural capital green human capital; green structural capital; bibliometric analysis; co-citation analysis; bibliographic coupling.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLIC.2024.143680

International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital, 2024 Vol.21 No.5, pp.571 - 591

Received: 30 Apr 2024
Accepted: 03 Oct 2024
Published online: 03 Jan 2025 *

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