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Table 1 Most frequently cited articles on conference papers on sustainable development
Articles
Citations (n)
Citations (%)
1
Chen et al. (2015)
22
10.1
2
Pashby and Andreotti (2016)
17
7.8
3
Sierpinski et al. (2015)
9
4.1
4
Dzienkowski et al. (2016)
8
3.7
5
Artal-Sevil et al. (2015)
8
3.7
6
Plechawska-Wojcik et al. (2015)
7
3.2
7
Tian (2017)
6
2.8
8
Katiliute and Daunoriene (2014)
6
2.8
9
Tasci (2014)
6
2.8
10
Martins et al. (2017)
4
1.8
11
Alabugin et al. (2016)
4
1.8
12
Dulama et al. (2016)
4
1.8
13
Pena et al. (2014)
4
1.8
14
Platonova et al. (2015)
4
1.8
15
Mikhailova and Chorosova (2017)
3
1.4
16
Palaigeorgiou et al. (2017)
3
1.4
17
Matei et al. (2016)
3
1.4
18
Ferrer-Marti et al. (2015)
3
1.4
19
Hagen and Hasleberg (2015)
3
1.4
20
Momete, DC (2015)
3
1.4
Source Authors
Table 3 shows the educational institutions with the highest number of articles
in the sample, the most notable being Universidad Politecnica de Madrid and
the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, both in Spain, with 13 and 9 articles,
respectively.
The most prominent authors, their countries and institutional affiliations, with
more papers on sustainability in higher education in the sample of 648 papers are
listed in Table 4: Arraiza MP with 12 papers, Ioras F, Garcia JL and Gimenez MC
with 10, 8 and 8 respectively.
Figure 1 presents the most cited terms in the papers of the sample, along with
their frequency on the abstracts. The terms represent themes that reflect the needs,
resources or concerns in the papers on sustainable development in higher education
of international conferences of our sample.
Table 5 presents the ten most-cited terms in the international conferences, along
with their frequency on the abstracts. The terms on this Table represent themes that
reflect the main global needs, resources or concerns in these conferences.
The interest in some of the most cited terms in the conferences was investigated in
the searches made at the Google search engine, using Google Trends—search trends
C. R. M. de Lima et al.
Table 1 Most frequently cited articles on conference papers on sustainable development
Articles
Citations (n)
Citations (%)
1
Chen et al. (2015)
22
10.1
2
Pashby and Andreotti (2016)
17
7.8
3
Sierpinski et al. (2015)
9
4.1
4
Dzienkowski et al. (2016)
8
3.7
5
Artal-Sevil et al. (2015)
8
3.7
6
Plechawska-Wojcik et al. (2015)
7
3.2
7
Tian (2017)
6
2.8
8
Katiliute and Daunoriene (2014)
6
2.8
9
Tasci (2014)
6
2.8
10
Martins et al. (2017)
4
1.8
11
Alabugin et al. (2016)
4
1.8
12
Dulama et al. (2016)
4
1.8
13
Pena et al. (2014)
4
1.8
14
Platonova et al. (2015)
4
1.8
15
Mikhailova and Chorosova (2017)
3
1.4
16
Palaigeorgiou et al. (2017)
3
1.4
17
Matei et al. (2016)
3
1.4
18
Ferrer-Marti et al. (2015)
3
1.4
19
Hagen and Hasleberg (2015)
3
1.4
20
Momete, DC (2015)
3
1.4
Source Authors
Table 3 shows the educational institutions with the highest number of articles
in the sample, the most notable being Universidad Politecnica de Madrid and
the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, both in Spain, with 13 and 9 articles,
respectively.
The most prominent authors, their countries and institutional affiliations, with
more papers on sustainability in higher education in the sample of 648 papers are
listed in Table 4: Arraiza MP with 12 papers, Ioras F, Garcia JL and Gimenez MC
with 10, 8 and 8 respectively.
Figure 1 presents the most cited terms in the papers of the sample, along with
their frequency on the abstracts. The terms represent themes that reflect the needs,
resources or concerns in the papers on sustainable development in higher education
of international conferences of our sample.
Table 5 presents the ten most-cited terms in the international conferences, along
with their frequency on the abstracts. The terms on this Table represent themes that
reflect the main global needs, resources or concerns in these conferences.
The interest in some of the most cited terms in the conferences was investigated in
the searches made at the Google search engine, using Google Trends—search trends