Bibliometric review of sustainable structures: a look at the history of global scientific production

Abstract

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers related to the study of the variable sustainable structures. The purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this document is to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in Scopus database during the period 2017-2021 globally, achieving the identification of 9283 publications in total. The information provided by said platform was organized by means of graphs and figures categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics were described, a qualitative analysis was used to refer to the position of different authors on the proposed topic. Among the main findings of this research, it is found that China, with 2382 publications, is the country with the highest number of scientific production related to the variable under study, and the type of publication that was most used during the period mentioned above was the journal article, which represents 56% of the total scientific production.