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3 Method and Materials
3.1 Scientific Literature Review
Considering that the main objective of this project was to carry out a broad theoretical
review of the theme of commitment of higher education institutions’ stakeholders
with sustainability, the first four months were used to collect bibliography to this
end.
As this analysis has the purpose of, among others, finding gaps in the literature and
to propose new theoretical contributions for the future, it was decided to determine
what type of materials to be used and that these would be scientific articles, once
this type of materials is usually more specific and up-to-date. Thus the research was
carried out on the following scientific databases: Web of Science—Social Sciences
Citation Index (WoS-SSCI) and Scopus. The choice of such databases was due to
their coverage of peer-reviewed journals, and their wide acceptance in the scientific
milieu.
In keywords used to perform the searches were: sustainable* behavior (and)
psychological*, which were collated from the topics of articles (including their titles,
abstracts, and keywords). These terms were selected due to the extent to which
they select the literature on the subject, and the symbol (*) was used after the term
sustainable, so that it could search for, besides the exact word, also its possible
variations.
One of the main difficulties to accomplish the task at hand was the excess of articles
found in the databases under each chosen keyword, what was already expected given
the comprehensiveness of the theme. Thus, it was necessary to further filter them in
order to arrive to a more reasonable number of documents for the proposed analysis.
As regards the period stipulated for the research of the literature on the subject under
analysis, it was decided to limit it to a period of 10 (ten) years, from 2008 to 2017. In
addition, it was also decided to filter materials published in journals in the business
area.
Three hundred and fourty one (341) articles were initially found in the Web of Science citation index, and seven hundred and fourty five (745) in the Scopus database.
The 2 chosen filters used in the scientific databases were: the categories related to
social sciences and business (and only articles were selected), upon the use of which
one hundred and sixty eight (168) articles were obtained in the first database, and two
hundred and ninety six (296) in the second one. Additional filtering was performed
to eliminate duplications and JCR from journals, which were selected by having a
JCR greater than 1.3 in order to prioritize articles from high impact and good reputation journals and subsidize the current study with considered high quality research.
Beside a high JCR, the journals needed to have an H-index value greater than 24, all
of them therefore located in the Q1 qualis.
A. A. Melo et al.
3 Method and Materials
3.1 Scientific Literature Review
Considering that the main objective of this project was to carry out a broad theoretical
review of the theme of commitment of higher education institutions’ stakeholders
with sustainability, the first four months were used to collect bibliography to this
end.
As this analysis has the purpose of, among others, finding gaps in the literature and
to propose new theoretical contributions for the future, it was decided to determine
what type of materials to be used and that these would be scientific articles, once
this type of materials is usually more specific and up-to-date. Thus the research was
carried out on the following scientific databases: Web of Science—Social Sciences
Citation Index (WoS-SSCI) and Scopus. The choice of such databases was due to
their coverage of peer-reviewed journals, and their wide acceptance in the scientific
milieu.
In keywords used to perform the searches were: sustainable* behavior (and)
psychological*, which were collated from the topics of articles (including their titles,
abstracts, and keywords). These terms were selected due to the extent to which
they select the literature on the subject, and the symbol (*) was used after the term
sustainable, so that it could search for, besides the exact word, also its possible
variations.
One of the main difficulties to accomplish the task at hand was the excess of articles
found in the databases under each chosen keyword, what was already expected given
the comprehensiveness of the theme. Thus, it was necessary to further filter them in
order to arrive to a more reasonable number of documents for the proposed analysis.
As regards the period stipulated for the research of the literature on the subject under
analysis, it was decided to limit it to a period of 10 (ten) years, from 2008 to 2017. In
addition, it was also decided to filter materials published in journals in the business
area.
Three hundred and fourty one (341) articles were initially found in the Web of Science citation index, and seven hundred and fourty five (745) in the Scopus database.
The 2 chosen filters used in the scientific databases were: the categories related to
social sciences and business (and only articles were selected), upon the use of which
one hundred and sixty eight (168) articles were obtained in the first database, and two
hundred and ninety six (296) in the second one. Additional filtering was performed
to eliminate duplications and JCR from journals, which were selected by having a
JCR greater than 1.3 in order to prioritize articles from high impact and good reputation journals and subsidize the current study with considered high quality research.
Beside a high JCR, the journals needed to have an H-index value greater than 24, all
of them therefore located in the Q1 qualis.