A scientometric review of global research on sustainability and project management dataset

There are few works that have attempted to map the global research on sustainability and project management. This research utilizes scientometric review of global sustainability and project management research in 2006–2018, through co-word analysis, co-author analysis, journal analysis, institution analysis, and country analysis. A total of 400 bibliographic records from the Web of Science and Scopus core collection databases were selected and analyzed. The findings reveal an evolution of the research field based on the concepts in the Brundtland Commission report to considering sustainability Triple Bottom Line in project management activities. The purpose of this data article is to provide an understanding of the status quo and the trend for research on sustainability and project management in the world.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Data in Brief

• Publication date

  2019-07-31

• Fields of study

  Political Science, Medicine, Business, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.dib.2019.104312PMID 31453293PMCID 6700391
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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