Análisis bibliométrico de Economía Azul / Bibliometric Analysis of Blue Economy

Abstract

This is the first attempt at bibliometric analysis with SciMAT software from indexed article in the database Web of Science. It was conducted with general terms, only using the first original term Blue Economy. SciMat is a mapping analysis tool created to carry out mapping analysis in a longitudinal environment. Among other results, it is shown: Blue Economy is a new topic -first published as articles in 2002-. From each of the periods studied. (1) 2002-2017: the most important topics are two: 'Blue economy' and 'Economics'. (2) Secondly, between 2018-2019, the most representative words are: 'Carbon‑Economies', 'Fishing', and 'Oceans'. (3) Finally, in the last two years, 2020-2021 the most relevant cluster is the 'Blue Economy' itself. As limitations, ‘Blue-green economy' and 'Blue economy' maybe could be merged into one category or cluster, depending on whether considering or not the same definition.