Sustainability in Geotechnical Engineering: A Bibliometric Analysis

Within the ever-expanding field of sustainability research in geotechnical engineering, scholars need to fully grasp its breadth.This complexity often results in redundancies and delays in research progress.In order to have a more scientific grasp of the development of the field of geotechnical engineering sustainability, we tried to use innovative bibliometric methods to scientifically review the contemporary landscape and evolution of geotechnical engineering sustainability research.This study uses the R package bibliometrics to analyse bibliometric data visualizations regarding geotechnical sustainability in contemporary landscapes.Therefore, it conducted a follow-up analysis: examining annual publication trends, identifying the most contributing authors, the most productive countries, the most cited papers, popular journals, prolific affiliations, frequently occurring keywords and network analysis.Bibliometric methods can provide relevant researchers with a reference for the current status of research in this field.Based on the findings, sustainable geotechnical engineering research was initiated in 1998 and has continued to advance since then, especially surging in 2019.The field of geotechnical sustainability research is dynamically expanding and in a transformational phase, which indicates a significant increase in related research.Since the data will continue to change, replication may be required in the future.