TY - JOUR
T1 - Contributions toward sustainable development
T2 - a bibliometric analysis of sustainability reporting research
AU - Effah, Nana Adwoa Anokye
AU - Wang, Qinggang
AU - Owusu, Godfred Matthew Yaw
AU - Otchere, Octavia Ama Serwaa
AU - Owusu, Bright
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - The study determines the development of the sustainability reporting domain using a dataset of publications extracted from the Web of Science (WoS) core database and visualized with CiteSpace. This paper employs a bibliometric approach to review extant studies to present and describe the publication patterns from 2004 to 2021. The top 3 contributing journals are the Journal of Cleaner Production, Sustainability, and Accounting, Auditing, and Accountability Journal, whereas the author network depicts a low collaboration among authors. Many authors have autonomously conducted their research, and the regional contributions to the research domain have been uneven. The paper accentuates the need to bridge the uneven institutional and regional contributions toward the sustainability reporting domain, so more light is shed on environmental sustainability across regions through firm and institutional levels. The results will trigger the need for future studies and actions needed to improve reporting quality through extensive social, environmental, and governance disclosures.
AB - The study determines the development of the sustainability reporting domain using a dataset of publications extracted from the Web of Science (WoS) core database and visualized with CiteSpace. This paper employs a bibliometric approach to review extant studies to present and describe the publication patterns from 2004 to 2021. The top 3 contributing journals are the Journal of Cleaner Production, Sustainability, and Accounting, Auditing, and Accountability Journal, whereas the author network depicts a low collaboration among authors. Many authors have autonomously conducted their research, and the regional contributions to the research domain have been uneven. The paper accentuates the need to bridge the uneven institutional and regional contributions toward the sustainability reporting domain, so more light is shed on environmental sustainability across regions through firm and institutional levels. The results will trigger the need for future studies and actions needed to improve reporting quality through extensive social, environmental, and governance disclosures.
KW - Bibliometric analysis
KW - CSR
KW - Citations
KW - SDGs
KW - Sustainability reporting
KW - Sustainable development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85141998118&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11356-022-24010-8
DO - 10.1007/s11356-022-24010-8
M3 - Review article
C2 - 36378377
AN - SCOPUS:85141998118
SN - 0944-1344
VL - 30
SP - 104
EP - 126
JO - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
JF - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
IS - 1
ER -