Environmental sustainability in Higher Education Institutions, a bibliometric study on national publications

Abstract Some Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are becoming a reference to practice environmentally sustainable, contributing to the formation of its academics and for sustainable development, to the extent that there is in sustainability a guideline for managing the campuses of the institutions. The objective of this article was to investigate the profile of research and the development of the theme of environmental sustainability in HEIs located in Brazil. It is a study of bibliometric analysis to examine the scientific literature on the topic and guide future directions and strategies for future research. These studies are dispersed in a large number of journals because there is no nationally a particular publication for the theme. The studies are dispersed in fifteen different journals and twenty-seven articles were found. The surveys were developed by eighty-nine authors and there is no individual research. The evolution of academic learning obtained by the experience of researchers isbringing a mature work, which already has a history of research, concepts and results that are being aggregated over time, building up the knowledge in the area.