Sustainable urban street: a bibliometric analysis

This research aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis of various pieces of literature on the “sustainable urban street (SUS)” between 1992 and 2023. This review intends to provide an overall understanding of the evolution and progression of research on the SUS over the past three decades. Our study adheres to the theoretical framework of bibliometric research and uses datasets from the Web of Science and Scopus websites. The diverse literature on the SUS study was compiled using the terms “sustainable” or “green” and “urban street” or “urban road”. The datasets include journal articles including early access, proceedings paper articles, book chapters, and review papers with terms mentioned anywhere in their title, abstracts, keyword lists, or bodies. After assembling and analysing the datasets, we got the final dataset of 812 documents on SUS for further analysis. The utilization of the open-source and free statistical and visualization software tools- R and VOS Viewer primarily served the purpose of processing and analysing datasets. The analysis provides the total number of documents that were published per year and the top 10 authors, publications, journals, research organisations, and nations that contributed to publishing papers on this topic. The lexical network analysis reveals that SUS is strongly associated with the two frequently occurring terms “sustainable development” and “air quality”. China, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom have conducted most studies on SUS. The top three most influential journals for SUS are “Sustainability”, “Building and Environment”, and “Sustainable Cities and Society”. The main contribution of this bibliometric analysis is to identify future research needs for sustainable urban streets. This dataset, based on an evaluation of 30 years of study in this field, will prove helpful in the future for researchers and policymakers alike. This study also enhances the existing knowledge of sustainable urban streets by offering a comprehensive framework and a systematic understanding of the challenges associated with urban transformation and sustainability that have emerged in recent years.