Measuring Sustainable Practices in Agribusiness: A Bibliometric Analysis

• Autor(a) principal: Monteiro, Sónia
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Quesado, Patrícia, Ribeiro, Verónica, Fernandes, Maria Eduarda, Eugénio, Teresa, Costa, João
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/9227
• topic: Sustainability; Indicators; Agribusiness; Bibliometric Study

As global concerns for sustainability matters have gained attention for businesses, industries, and economies, including agribusiness, the need to investigate the indicators that could evaluate sustainable performance in this sector has also risen. This paper aims to analyse the scientific production in the last decade (2011-2022) related to sustainable indicators (environmental, economic, social and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) in agribusiness. A bibliometric study was carried out using articles from the Scopus database. Afterwards, the most cited articles, journals and countries were analysed, and a thematic analysis of the keywords was carried out. Word maps, trend topics and thematic maps were carried out, as well as clustering analysis. Results indicate that research on sustainable indicators of agribusiness has increased over time. In recent years, the number of scientific papers on these topics has been increasing, probably associated with the approval of the United Nations 2030 Agenda in 2015. Italy has the most publications, the highest number of citations, and most extensive collaboration network. Most papers are published in two journals of higher impact. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is cited as the most usual method to assess agribusiness impact. Regarding the indicators to evaluate the sustainability of agribusiness, there is a more significant predominance of environmental indicators compared to economic and social indicators. Clustering analysis shows clusters 2 “environmental indicators” and 8 “LCA” have greater impact and centrality. The study is limited in scope to the Scopus database. Further research should include the Web of Science (WOS) database.