Bibliometric Analysis Method of Examining the Concept of Green Knowledge Management and Sustainability: A Test for Web of Science Application

Abstract

The concept of sustainability and organizational green policies is very important from environmental studies perspectives nowadays. Green practices are evaluated in many different aspects, such as environmental, technological, and economic, in organizations. The green and environmental adaptation of all aspects of knowledge management is defined as “green knowledge management,” as well as is being examined by scientists in various aspects, following the organizational structure in the study. The development of green knowledge management, its applications, analyzing it geographically, evaluating its academic performance, and evaluating the existing intellectual accumulation on the subject is possible with bibliometric analysis. Bibliometric analysis methods are used in both academic and administrative studies, as well as to quantitatively analyze scientific publications produced by scientists and academic institutions. It plays an active role in the decision-making process, especially in the measurement of academic performance, in the evaluation of a particular subject, publication, institution, and in the collection development policy practices of libraries. In this study, in addition to the distribution of articles on green knowledge management indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) database according to years, countries, and institutions, keywords and institutions are also used to explain the relationship between the concepts related to green knowledge management and sustainability concepts.