Sustainability in Port Cities – a Bibliometric Approach

The paper uses a bibliometric approach to quantitatively assess current research trends on idea of sustainability in seaport cities. Content, structure and connections between port city and sustainability issues are especially looking for. The aim is to get an overview of that research field, find how different subfields are connected and find the potential opportunities for bridging the gaps between subfields. The tools of bibliometric analysis – a map of the links between the keywords and keywords density map – are used to identify important areas in port city research field. Findings show that the most important research field of port city can be divided into four clusters which are devoted to environmental issues, port activity, waterfront development and sustainability matters.