Fostering a Sustainable Future through Impactful Research by the Libraries - A Bibliometric Analysis based on Google Scholar

Abstract

The global discourse on sustainability has intensified, and libraries play an important role in promoting sustainable futures through impactful research. Therefore, the objective of this study was to use bibliometric analysis (BA) of the related publications available in Google Scholar (GS) to explore the vital role of libraries. The method adopted was extracting the relevant publications from GS using Publish or Perish software (PPS) without time limits on publications. The research strategy used was entering the keywords “library*”, “sustainable future”, and “impactful research” combined by the Boolean Operator “AND’ into the PPS to ...