Green Public Procurement in open access and traditional journals: a comparative bibliometric analysis
ISSN: 1535-0118
Article publication date: 5 February 2024
Issue publication date: 16 February 2024
Abstract
Purpose
Green Public Procurement (GPP) has recently gained attention in the academic and policy arenas since climate change has uncovered the need to be addressed by both private companies and public entities. Because of this growing interest this study aims to explore the most influential journals, publishers, categories, topics and therecent trends and future research lines in GPP.
Design/methodology/approach
Based on the Web of Science database, 1,008 articles from 1990 to November 2023 devoted to GPP are analysed by using Bibliometrix, an R-tool to perform bibliometric analysis.
Findings
This study introduces the following findings. The most influential journals by far are Journal of Cleaner Production and Sustainability, differing in that the latter is open access (OA) while the former publishes through traditional subscription (TS). This result also occurs regarding the main publishers (Elsevier and MDPI).
Social implications
GPP is a political commitment that contributes to improving the efficiency of the economies and that has aroused the interest of the scientific community. The paper can provide important insights for GPPs formulation in the areas of procurements and literacy.
Originality/value
The paper leads a debate on the opportunities or threats that the OA journals present for the dissemination of scientific knowledge of GPP, compared to TS publications in the same field.
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Acknowledgements
The authors thank two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and suggestions.
The results achieved in the research are the result of the development of the project UAL2020-SEJ-D2077 “Incrementar la confianza en la gestión de la contratación en las universidades públicas en la era digital: percepción, evidencias y efectos económicos”, (Increasing trust in the management of public universities’ public procurement in the digital age: perception, evidence and economic effects), financed by the Programa Operativo FEDER de Andalucía 2014–2020.
Funding: Financed by the “Programa Operativo FEDER de Andalucía 2014–2020”.
Citation
Galán-Valdivieso, F., Alonso-Cañadas, J., Saraite-Sariene, L. and Caba-Perez, C. (2024), "Green Public Procurement in open access and traditional journals: a comparative bibliometric analysis", Journal of Public Procurement, Vol. 24 No. 1, pp. 91-113. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOPP-09-2023-0064
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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