Creating an academic landscape of sustainability science: an analysis of the citation network
By Yuya Kajikawa, J. Ohno, Yoshiyuki Takeda, Katsumori Matsushima, H. Komiyama. 2007
293 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Sustainability is an important concept for society, economics, and the environment, with thousands of research papers published on the subject annually. As sustainability science becomes a distinctive research field, it is important to define sustainability clearly and grasp the entire structure, current status, and future directions of sustainability science. This paper provides an academic landscape of sustainability science by analyzing the citation network of papers published in academic journals. A topological clustering method is used to detect the sub-domains of sustainability science. Results show the existence of 15 main research clusters: Agriculture, Fisheries, Ecological Economics, Forestry (agroforestry), Forestry (tropical rain forest), Business, Tourism, Water, Forestry (biodiversity), Urban Planning, Rural Sociology, Energy, Health, Soil, and Wildlife. Agriculture, Fisheries, Ecological Economics, and Forestry (agroforestry) clusters are predominant among these. The Energy cluster is currently developing, as indicated by the age of papers in the cluster, although it has a relatively small number of papers. These results are compared with those obtained by natural language processing. Education, Biotechnology, Medical, Livestock, Climate Change, Welfare, and Livelihood clusters are uniquely extracted by natural language processing, because they are common topics across clusters in the citation network.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
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Citations in the corpus
- Sustainable Well-Being: A Potential Synergy between Sustainability and Well-Being Research (2011, background): “With regards to the definitional vagueness of sustainability, Kajikawa, Ohno, Takeda, Matsushima and Komiyama (2007) optimistically point out that rather than being an obstacle, its broadness has encouraged and inspired a lively and diversified discussion.”
- How interdisciplinary is sustainability research? Analyzing the structure of an emerging scientific field (2011, background): “Efforts to understand the structure of sustainability science and related fields have mapped well-formed research clusters (Kajikawa et al. 2007), analyzed citation patterns across national boundaries (Yarime et al. 2010), and identified productive institutions and influential publications…”