Published date: Dec 07 2023

Journal Title: KnE Social Sciences

Issue title: The International Conference on Environmental, Social and Governance (ICESG 2022)

Pages: 633–654

DOI: 10.18502/kss.v8i20.14629

Mohd SalimDepartment of Commerce, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, India

Parvez Alam Khanparvezkhan.alam@gmail.comDepartment of Management and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 32610 Seri Iskandar, Malaysia

Nasir Abdul JalilDepartment of Management and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 32610 Seri Iskandar, Malaysia

Satirenjit Kaur JohlDepartment of Management and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 32610 Seri Iskandar, Malaysia

Syed Hasan JafarDepartment of Finance, School of Business, Woxsen University, Hyderabad, India

Fatima IrfanDepartment of Commerce and Business Management, Integral University Lucknow, India

Mantasha KhanFaculty of Commerce, KMCL University, Lucknow, India

Blockchain technology has emerged as a transformative solution for enhancing transparency and accountability across various dimensions of sustainable development. Given the limited exploration of Blockchain’s synergy with sustainable development goals, there exists a compelling rationale to undertake a bibliometric literature review aimed at identifying forthcoming research trajectories. Employing the ”Blockchain” AND ”Sustainable Development Goals” keywords, an extensive search was conducted across Scopus and Web of Science databases. This endeavor yielded a corpus of 271 articles published within the span of 2017 to 2023. Subsequent adherence to inclusion and exclusion criteria refined this collection to 183 documents for meticulous Bibliographic Analysis through the Biblioshiny application of the Bibliometrix R package. The study charts a promising trajectory characterized by upward trends in recent years, unveiling the most prolific authors, productive nations, frequency of keywords, thematic evaluation, and collaborative endeavors. Delving into the systematic literature review, the research introduces five discernible future trends, along with a comprehensive research framework designed to amplify the generalizability of findings to pertinent stakeholders.

Keywords: blockchain, sustainable development goal, environmental challenges and bibliometric analysis

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