A Bibliometric Analysis of Articles on Corporate Social Responsibility Topic

Abstract

The concept of corporate social responsibility is a subject that is almost always on the agenda of academia and business world, although it is popular and demanded every time it is especially expected during the economic crisis, pandemics and disaster times. It is possible to say that corporate social responsibility is an interdisciplinary area which researchers study on intensively, such as there are more than 40.000 articles written and published about CSR; 16344 of them are from business, 13951 management, 6719 from environmental sciences, 5886 from business finance and 5184 from green sustainable science technology. In this research, the aim is analyzing the literature in depth and revealing the quantitative statistics and underlining the gaps in the literature for the benefit of other researchers who are interested in this field. The publications on CSR between 1990 and 2025 years have been analyzed quantitatively by using Vosviewer software and a general framework is pointed out in this article. Web of Science is chosen as the database for the analysis and the results have shown that the interest on corporate social responsibility is has increased year by year since 1990 and in 2022 it has peaked with 3720 publications in Web of Science database. Analysis showed that the first contributor to this field is USA with 6906 articles followed by China with 6209 articles. As a result, CSR is in focus of researchers from different parts of the world, and the importance of this issue seems to continue.