Synthesizing a Decade of Water Conservation Studies Through Bibliometric Analysis
Rumi
Research Fellow (UGC)
Department of Commerce
Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra (Haryana)
E-Mail: 2329rumiphd@kuk.ac.in
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Dr. Karnika Gupta
Assistant Professor
Department of Commerce
SNRL Jairam Girls College
Lohar Majra, Kurukshetra (Haryana)
E-Mail: karnikagupta7@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Purpose – The paper aims at analyzing literature available on the topic water conservation using bibliometric analysis. The purpose is to explore important information such as publication growth, citation trends, prominent sources, most contributing countries, frequent keywords, apex organizations, and to figure out existing co-authorships in the field.
Design / Methodology / Approach – For conducting Bibliometric analysis, 395 articles published in English language, are extracted from Web of Science (WoS) database for a decade specifically from 2015 to 2024. The analysis is done by using two softwares namely, Biblioshiny in R studio (version 4.4.1) and VOSviewer (version 1.6.20).
Findings – The study highlights a significant growth in number of publications, along with some decline in citation trend. ‘Sustainability’ and ‘Water’ are found to be the pertinent journals in the field. Further, China is the most contributing country in terms of publications and citations received. Also, the apex affiliation in terms of number of publications is from China specifically from ‘China University of Mining and Technology’. Moreover, Management, Water, Impact, Model, Performance, Climate-Change, Conservation, Systems, Soil, and Irrigation are highlighted as the trendy keywords of the decade.
Originality / Value – In this bibliometric analysis, water conservation has been linked to the solution and answer keywords. However in prior literature, bibliometric analysis on water conservation has not been performed using this kind of viewpoint. Hence, the analysis becomes significant due to this paper’s unique findings.
Keywords – Water Conservation, Bibliometric Analysis, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Web of Science (WoS), Biblioshiny, VOSviewer.
Paper Type – Literature Review
