Bibliometric Analysis on Liveable Concept from the Perspective of Neighbourhood

The concept of liveable has been discussed since 1990's, yet there is no definite definition for liveable as the concept relies on what the community wants in their neighbourhood areas.The concept is challenging in terms of content-wise and in many ways being viewed in crossdisciplinary with multi-dimensional research domains.In this review, bibliometric analysis has been applied to the field of liveable in order to identify fundamental aspects and to obtain a structured overview on the characteristics and its developments in the research domain.The Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus search engines were used to explore online databases for frameworks or concepts related to the idea of liveability normally used in neighbourhood studies.These databases were chosen because they contain a wide range of social science topics, which makes them ideal for this area of study.Advanced bibliometric tools were used by using VOSviewer and ScientoPY software.n total, 229 publications published between 1990 to 2024 relevant to liveable were identified in Web and Science (WoS) and Scopus.The review discusses influential material according to (1) the trends in liveable context between the years, (2) countries origin contributed to liveability, (3) authors who have published extensively on liveability in the field, and (4) most cited publication.The results indicate what has been captured on the aspect for a contextual consideration in Malaysia.This includes perspectives of aspects that might not be considered due to the uniqueness of the country.