Sustainable Development Goals And Interdisciplinary Research Trends: Alignment Of Academic Output With Global Progress
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chapter conducts a bibliometric and comparative analysis of global academic
outputs addressing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) between 2015 and
2025. The study’s distinctive contribution lies in its weighted goal-level
scoring analysis, which introduces a novel quantitative framework for aligning
academic intensity with official SDG progress classifications. Using data from
the Web of Science Core Collection and analyzed through Bibliometrix in R, the
study identifies 41,297 documents with an annual growth rate of 38.5%,
reflecting accelerated scholarly engagement with sustainability themes. The
analysis reveals that SDG 13 (Climate Action) dominates academic attention,
followed by SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure) and SDG 12
(Responsible Consumption and Production), indicating a strong emphasis on
environmental and technological domains. In contrast, SDGs related to equality,
biodiversity, and water (SDG 6, 10, and 15) remain underrepresented, revealing
persistent thematic imbalances. Keyword co-occurrence and thematic evolution
analyses reveal a transition from conceptual discussions to innovation-driven
research that integrates artificial intelligence, the circular economy, and
education for sustainable development. Country-level and collaboration analyses
indicate a high concentration of research in advanced economies, while
lower-income regions remain underrepresented despite their vulnerability. The
findings reveal both convergence and divergence between research intensity and
UN-reported progress, underscoring the need for a more balanced,
interdisciplinary, and policy-linked research agenda to accelerate equitable
global progress toward the 2030 Agenda.
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