The economics of forest carbon sequestration: a bibliometric analysis

Carbon sequestration in forests has increasingly captured the attention of scientists as a strategy for climate change mitigation and environmental sustainability. In this era huge carbon emissions, being low-carbon cost-effective technology, economic analysis forest holds higher importance successful implementation intended outcomes. This study elucidates scientometric view research structure thematic evolution studies on based 1439 articles over time slice 2001–2021. The bibliographic data have been retrieved from Dimensions database, which accommodates large coverage publications also provides easy access to essential scholarly information. Vosviewer Biblioshiny software tools opted visualisation evaluation purposes bibliometric data. employs various measures like co-authorship, coupling, citation keyword find out principal articles, authors, journals, most frequent keywords highest publishing countries institutions field, results show that number escalated substantially last five years, cited article productive author are Popp A, 2017 (305 citations) André P C Faaij (11 documents), respectively, Bradford’s law calculates 21 core journals total 503 among Forest Policy Economics is at top, country institution USA University Florida, respectively. investigates key subject categories, covered under each Sustainable Development Goals. overall outcome confers an in-depth understanding dimensions its development pattern years emerging themes future reference.