Exploring development and evolutionary trends in carbon offset research : a bibliometric perspective

This study proposes a bibliometric measure to visualize and analyze the research status and development trend of carbon offset based on 1,581 articles over the period 1900-2019. The main findings include (1) carbon offset research turned into a rapid growth after 2009; (2) environmental studies, environmental science, economics, and energy fuels are the top four research domains in publication; (3) Energy Policy, Ecological Economics and Science are the top three journals in terms of citation impact; (4) climate change, impact, emission, CO2 emission, and policy are shown to be the most frequently used keywords; (5) the top 10 cited articles cover the following five essential aspects: individual carbon offset behavior; forest and land carbon offset; transportation carbon offset; international trade carbon offset; and eco-system service-related carbon offset; (6) eight research hotspots were identified including forest carbon sequestration program, understanding carbon and uncertainty market, policy design, biomass development, Chinese province, increasing adoption, and ecosystem service commodification. These findings suggest that the carbon offset research has been evolved from the theoretical exploration at the early stage to a more diversified conversion of research outputs at the practical level in recent years. Interdisciplinary research towards individual and organizational carbon offset behaviors in a broader context of socio-economic development and cooperation among various agents is the emphasis and direction for future study.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:28

Enthalten in:

Environmental science and pollution research international - 28(2021), 15 vom: 14. Apr., Seite 18850-18869

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wei, Jia [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Kai [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Linling [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Ranran [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Muxi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

7440-44-0
Bibliometrics
Carbon
Carbon offset
Development trend
Interdisciplinary research
Journal Article
Review

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Date Completed 07.04.2021

Date Revised 07.04.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11356-021-12908-8

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM321457412