Research trend on sustainable architecture: a bibliometric analysis emphasizing on building, material, façade, and thermal keywords

Studies about sustainable research remain increase recently due to the global trend and movement on greener lifestyles. Keywords on building, material, façade, and thermal represent the current issue in sustainable architecture. This study aims to trends in sustainable architecture research with specific keywords and periods. Publishing period between 1976-2020 with particular limitation applied to emerge 859 publication documents to be analyzed. Scopus’ on-site analysis system and VOSviewer were employed to generate graphical and visual analysis on research trends. The analysis results generate five significant research clusters: energy, façade technology, measurement, thermal, and climate. Besides groups, the analysis also indicates that most of the countries involved were from Europe. Hence, the conclusion of this study reveals potential research on a similar topic in tropical countries which demanding sustainable building encounters a humidity challenge. This study fills the gap in the bibliometric analysis regarding sustainable architecture with specific keywords and publishing period.

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