Sustainable Development: An Analysis Based on Conference Papers
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Table 6 The ten most-cited
terms in the Bridge
International Conference
Terms
Frequency
Energy
248
Environmental
207
Study
194
Water
183
Waste
140
Result
138
Production
138
Sustainable
128
Present
124
System
118
Source Authors
their abstracts published in the Book of Abstracts, and 182 were published in special
editions of Revista Gestão e Sustentabilidade Ambiental.
Table 6 presents the ten most-cited terms in the conference, along with their
frequency on the abstracts. The terms in Table 6 represent themes that reflect the
local needs, resources or concerns in the Bridge International Conference in Brazil.
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. “Energy”
and “environmental” are the most cited terms in the Bridge International Conference,
but according to the data presented on Fig. 6, the most searched terms on Google
platforms from 2015 to 2019 were “result” and “water”, and both had an increasing
interest in the period.
With the Similitude Analysis (Fig. 7), performed with the aid of the Iramuteq
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60
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100
120
1/4/2015
1/4/2016
1/4/2017
1/4/2018
1/4/2019
result
present
water
waste
production
sustainable
energy
environmental
study
system
Fig. 6 Terms addressed in the Bridge International Conference. Source Authors