The Degrowth Imaginary: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Literature

Ekonomi İşletme Siyaset ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi, cilt.10, sa.2, ss.409-429, 2024 (Hakemli Dergi)

Alternative socio-political imaginaries stress the need to address ecological breakdown. Having received growing attention from

scholars, research on degrowth as a burgeoning topic is scattered across various scientific disciplines such as environmental science,

sociology, economics, and geography. However, the growing number of publications focusing on bibliometric analysis enable

researchers to take a snapshot of the evolutionary account of a specific field. This article aims to present the state-of-the-art scientific

knowledge on the degrowth imaginary by employing the tools of bibliometric analysis. It illustrates the evolving dynamics within

degrowth research from 2008 to 2024. On the basis of 929 scientific publications retrieved from the Web of Science database,

descriptive analysis determined the most active authors, institutions/organizations, journals, and countries in the literature.

Bibliometric analysis, using VOSviewer, provided co-authorship analysis at the authors and country levels, co-occurrence analysis of

keywords, and co-citation analysis of documents and authors in the field.