A Combined Bibliometric Analysis on the Data Collection and Reporting Systems for Sustainability Assessment in Higher Education

Abstract

Sustainability in Higher Education (SHE) has been tagged as an emerging topic of concern among the research community and higher education institutions over the past decade. This paper aims to investigate the existing body of knowledge related to the SHE assessment tools, methods, data collection sources, reporting systems, methods used for rating and categories of broadening indicators using a combined bibliometric and exhaustive thematic investigations. This paper also aims at investigating the intellectual structure in the SHE field of knowledge using journal co-citation analysis, author co-citation analysis, and bibliographic coupling with the software VOSviewer. This study provides the research community with a comprehensive platform for expanding future research, highlighting the intellectual structure in the SHE assessment and implementation.