Research Article
Intellectual Authorities and Hubs of Green Chemistry
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-50072-6_15, author={Leonardo Victor Marcelino and Adilson Luiz Pinto and Carlos Alberto Marques}, title={Intellectual Authorities and Hubs of Green Chemistry}, proceedings={Data and Information in Online Environments. First EAI International Conference, DIONE 2020, Florian\^{o}polis, Brazil, March 19-20, 2020, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={DIONE}, year={2020}, month={6}, keywords={Green Chemistry Co-citation analysis CiteSpace}, doi={10.1007/978-3-030-50072-6_15} }- Leonardo Victor Marcelino
Adilson Luiz Pinto
Carlos Alberto Marques
Year: 2020
Intellectual Authorities and Hubs of Green Chemistry
DIONE
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-50072-6_15
Abstract
Green Chemistry (GC) is an answer to the problems ensuing from chemical pollution, adopting a proactive, prevention-based stance. After nearly three decades of its coming into being, the advances in the field towards groundbreaking chemical practice are still under discussion and new research is needed in order to systematize existing knowledge and to point to efficient means to select information. Our purpose with this study is to broaden the understanding on GC research structure, by pointing the researchers that have most contributed to its growth, spread and consolidation (its intellectual hubs), and the authors upon whose knowledge they have drawn (intellectual authorities). We analyzed 14,142 documents either containing the term “green chemistry” or published inGreen ChemistryandGreen Chemistry Letters and Reviewsbetween 1990 and 2017, using network analysis and co-citation analysis. Fourteen hubs were found, and twenty-one intellectual authorities, distributed along six big specialties, previously described in the literature. Results corroborate previous analyses of the field, but this research has the advantage of stemming from the dynamics of scientific production, rather than from previously defined qualitative categories of the field itself.
