BIBLIOMETRIC PROFILE OF RESEARCH ON ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT

Abstract

Ecological footprint, which is an indicator of environmental destruction today, seems to be one of the most remarkable research topics in recent years. In order to raise awareness about minimizing environmental problems, the ecological footprint plays an important role in determining the extent of destruction to the ecosystem. The ecological footprint is remarkable for researchers in terms of revealing the level of destruction in nature and explaining the causes of destruction for a sustainable environment. This research aims to examine the scientific studies published on the international platform about ecological footprint with the bibliometric analysis method. The research is descriptive and is structured on the scanning method. Studies published between 2010 and 2021 were searched using the key concept of "Ecological footprint" in the database. In this context, the bibliometric characteristics of 2748 publications scanned in the Web of Science database were determined. The data obtained as a result of the research were analyzed as the number of publications by years and the number of publications by countries, most productive authors and journals, authors' h-indexes, most cited authors and journals, distributions by most cited references, and some relationships between these variables. The data obtained reveal the interdisciplinary importance of the subject.