Scientific mapping of Coastal governance: global benchmarks and trends
Date
2022Author
Vega Muñoz, Alejandro
Salazar Sepúlveda, Guido
Contreras Barraza, Nicolás
Araya Silva, Lorena
Publisher
Journal of Marine Science and EngineeringDescription
Artículo de publicación SCOPUS - WOSMetadata
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This research panoramically and empirically reviews the scientific production on coastal
governance studies, mapping global networks of countries, organizations, authors, themes, and
journals as referents for this topic. The articles were examined through a bibliometric/scientometric
approach based on 2043 articles corpus stored in the Web of Science (JCR), applying the bibliometric
laws of Price, Lotka, and Zipf to add further validity to the use of VOSviewer for data and metadata
processing. The results highlight an uninterrupted exponential increase in publications since 1991,
with a high concentration in 29 countries (21%), 461 organizations (18%), 99 authors (1.45%), and
4 growing journals (1%). The emerging topics observed in the literature are related to coastal sustain-
ability and coastal management. Complementing previous studies on coastal zone management and
marine territorial planning, we add coastal systems governance as a topic.