An exploration of trends and future directions in sustainability performance

Current global economic activities are increasingly being perceived as unsustainable. With Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) statement in 2015, sustainability performance has received significant attention from academics and practitioners. Thus, it is necessary to better understand the topics of interest and expand cooperation networks to advance studies in integrated efforts. The present bibliometric research intends to assess worldwide research tendency in sustainability performance on the foundation of publishing outputs, co-authorships amongst authors and affiliated countries, and cooccurrences of author keywords, as well as to identify gaps and make research recommendations. The analysis has reviewed, retrieved and analysed 3680 papers, which were published from 1997 to 2021. The outcomes reveal that since 1997, the sum of publications has been on the rise steadily. About a third of all global papers on sustainability performance was produced by researchers from the United State...

当前全球经济活动愈发被认为是不可持续的。随着2015年《可持续发展目标（Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs）》的提出，可持续发展绩效（sustainability performance）受到了学术界与实务界的广泛关注。因此，更好地把握研究热点主题、拓展合作网络以推进整合性研究工作，具有重要的现实必要性。本项文献计量研究旨在基于文献出版产出、作者与所属国家的合著合作情况、作者关键词共现特征，评估全球范围内可持续发展绩效领域的研究态势，并识别研究空白、提出研究建议。本次分析共检索、梳理并分析了1997年至2021年间发表的3680篇学术论文。研究结果显示，自1997年以来，相关文献发表总量呈稳步增长态势；全球范围内关于可持续发展绩效的学术论文中，约有三分之一由美国科研人员完成……