Green Economy in Southeast Asia: A Bibliometric Analysis and Future Research Directions

This study aims to evaluate scholarly publications on the green economy (GE) in Southeast Asia and provide some suggestions for future research topics. The dataset used was obtained from Scopus, comprising 204 documents published in 108 reputable journals and authored by 675 scholars. Bibliometric methods were employed to analyze the data extracted from Scopus with the assistance of machine learning tools in RStudio and VOSviewer. Utilizing thematic map, trend topics, and bibliographic coupling approach, this research offers several suggestions for future research, including issues related to renewable energy, topics concerning sustainability of SMEs, the relationship between GE and circular economy, fields related to the implementation of green innovation, practices of green human resource management, and themes concerning the achievement of SDGs. This study solely focuses on documents published in Scopus-indexed journals, thus articles published in journals indexed by other databases are not considered.