J. For. Sci., 2020, 66(7):265-279 | DOI: 10.17221/75/2020-JFS

A literature review on forest bioeconomy with a bibliometric network analysisReview

Biancolillo Ilaria1, Paletto Alessandro*,1, Bersier Jacques2, Keller Michael2, Romagnoli Manuela3
1 Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria (CREA), Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Villazzano di Trento, Italy
2 University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, School of Engineering and Architecture of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
3 Centro Studi Alpino (CSALP/DIBAF), Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy

Over the last couple of decades, many peer-reviewed publications focused on the bioeconomy, which it is frequently argued to be a key part of the solution to global challenges (climate change, ecosystem degradation). This study investigates the scientific literature on forest bioeconomy by applying a social network analysis to the bibliometric science. The bibliometric network analysis was performed over the time-frame of 2003-2020 to provide an overview on the main aspects characterising the forest bioeconomy issue. The results show that 225 documents on forest bioeconomy were published by 567 organisations from 44 countries. Finland and Canada are the two most productive countries with 32.8% and 12.7% of forest bioeconomy documents respectively. The co-occurrence network map of the keywords shows that the forest bioeconomy is related to three main concepts: sustainable development, bioenergy production, climate change mitigation.

Keywords: green economy; circular economy; forestry; bibliometric analysis; sustainability; VOSviewer software

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