Social Capital and Sustainability: A Bibliometric Analysis

The aim of this study is to analyze the literature examining the concepts of sustainability and social capital together and thus to contribute to researchers who aim to conduct research on this subject. The bibliometric analysis method was used to serve the purpose of the study. A total of 983 studies in the fields of business and management between the years 2019-2023, obtained as a result of the research conducted using the keywords “social capital”, “social network” and “sustainability” in the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection database, constituted the sample of the research. The data set obtained from this sample was analyzed in the “biblioshiny” application. The findings of the study reveal the leading trends and evolution regarding impact, main journals, documents, topics, authors and countries. The most important contribution of the study is that it provides a visual and schematic framework of research on this subject to researchers and practitioners.