Bibliometric study on environmental, social, and governance research using CiteSpace

This paper offers an overview of the status and emerging trends in environmental, social, governance (ESG) research through a bibliometric approach using CiteSpace. In particular, our study aimed to elucidate overall intellectual structure academic field. To this end, we performed topic search related field gathered published articles (2007–2021) from Web Science. Subsequently, identified productive authors, institutes, countries/regions determine main forces Additionally, conducted co-citation analysis identify highly cited journals, literatures Furthermore, literature-co-citation-based cluster literature citation burst confirm themes hotspots These analyses can contribute investigations key contributing at author, institution, country/region, journal levels provide insights into knowledge structures orientations for future research.