Sustainability and innovation: a bibliometric study about the international publications

• Autor(a) principal: Xavier, Thiago Reis
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Lucca, Carmem, Richter, Angélica Skrebsky, Wittmann, Milton Luiz
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Eletrônica de Estratégia e Negócios
• Texto Completo: https://portaldeperiodicos.animaeducacao.com.br/index.php/EeN/article/view/1911
• topic: Innovation; Sustainability; Sustainability and Innovation; Bibliometric.; Inovação; Sustentabilidade; Sustentabilidade e Inovação; Bibliométrico.

This bibliometric study conducts an inventory on publications about the topic sustainability and innovation between 2002 and 2012. The data collection occurred in ISI Web of Science. The results showed, beyond the total papers (publications), 6 indexes on the topic and factors related to the citation report, such as the impact factor (h-b index and m index) of the publications. The results show a progressive increase in the number of publications every year, reaching its height in 2011. The English language is predominant. The EUA is the country where the largest number of studies is from. Besides, from h-b index and m index is observed that the study of thematic title may be considered "hot-topic", in other words, important in the international scenario in the period from 2002 to 2012.