BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS ON CORE RESEARCH RELATED TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND REVITALIZATION OF RURAL AREAS

This study represents the first stage of a larger research covered by a doctoral thesis on the sustainable development and revitalization of rural areas. The intention was to conduct a quantitative analysis on the publications related to the topic identified in Web of Science database in order to extract research cores to further enable thematic-qualitative analysis. Analysis was performed by means of VOSViewer application and maps generated underlined the interest of authors for articles published 2012-to-2023 (first quarter). Four main themes were outlined for qualitative analysis.