Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
17th Eurasian Conference on Language and Social Sciences, Girne, Kıbrıs (Kktc), 30 - 31 Temmuz 2024, ss.129-139
One of the biggest global risks in the world in the near future is climate change. New dynamics have emerged in consumer behavior against the possible effects of climate change. Consumers also have duties and responsibilities to take precautions against the effects of climate change and reduce its negative effects. It can be said that scientific studies can help both politicians, researchers and practitioners to develop new applications and strategies in the fight against climate change, and the study findings can be benefited from. Therefore, the aim of this study is to conduct a bibliometric analysis of the studies on the concepts of climate change and consumer behavior. By examining the relationships between concepts through existing studies, it is aimed to determine in which areas studies are carried out, to reveal which themes stand out and to present suggestions for future studies. The data to be used for bibliometric analysis was downloaded from the Web of science database, which contains studies from many countries globally and journals scanned in the best indexes. The search was made by typing the words "climate change" and "consumer behavior" or "consumer behavior" in two separate lines in the search tab in the database. PRISMA method was used in the study evaluation and research design process. Data from 407 studies were used in the analysis. VOSviewer program was used for data visualization. Data were analyzed according to author, organization, country, source, citations and keyword. As a result of bibliometric analysis, the authors who have done the most study on climate change and consumer behavior are Schanes (N=4) and Liobikiene (N=4). The number of authors who have done studies at least twice is 72. The majority of the authors' universities are Griffith, Aarhus, Cornell, Bournemouth, Cambridge, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Cardiff, Copenhagen and Amsterdam Vrije universities. In the country analysis, authors from 77 different countries have studies in these fields and USA (N=69), England (N=57), Germany (N=39), China (N=37), Australia (N=37), Netherlands (N=29), Italy (N=24) and Canada (N=23) were seen to be more prominent in number. While the publications are published in 220 different journals, the journals with the most publications are Sustainability (N=38) and Journal of Cleaner Production (N=27). The most cited studies are those of White et al (2019) (N=694) and Schanes et al (2018) (N=685). The most cited journal is the Journal of Cleaner Production. While the number of keywords used at least once was 1426, the number of keywords used at least twice was determined as 211. It has been determined that the concepts of climate change and consumer behavior are mostly studied together with the concepts of sustainability, carbon footprint, sustainable consumption, energy consumption, energy efficiency, food waste, attitude and sustainable development.
Keywords: Climate Change, Consumer Behaviour, Bibliometric Analysis, VOSviewer