Global Perspectives on Sustainable Concrete Development: Trends and Future Directions

The global manufacturing of concrete, which is a highly utilized construction material, is increasingly adopting sustainable construction materials to reduce the carbon footprint. Extensive research is underway to understand this mechanism and to discover alternative materials to meet the demand, bountiful research work is being undertaken and there arises a need to examine the research progress of this domain. Keeping this in mind, this scientometric study examines research trends by analyzing keywords, authorship, cooperation, bibliographic coupling, and production patterns in the field of sustainable concrete development (SCD). From 2018 to 2024, 2051 articles were extracted from the Scopus database and scientometric analysis was performed. From 2009 to 2023, there was a significant increase in publications on SCD, with 2023 having the highest annual publication count ( N = 635). The first publication on this topic was published in 1994. 2021 also had the highest number of citations ( n = 341), averaging 18.79 per document. The top 3 countries in terms of publishing output were China (1704), India (1391), and Australia (467). The results showed that material science accounted for almost 53.1% of the domain studied, and most of the research on the specified topic came from industrialized nations. This study will help researchers understand the progress of research on SCD and support the development of cooperation among various authors working in this domain.