Where Is Sharing-Economy Research in the BRICS Located? A Bibliometric Map of Countries, Disciplines, and Knowledge Structure
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This paper maps the geographic, disciplinary, and intellectual structure reported for sharingeconomy research on the BRICS countries. The question matters because broad claims about “emerging-market” scholarship can conceal substantial differences in national participation and disciplinary framing. We conduct a bounded secondary analysis of the Web of Science tables and figures reproduced in the supplied manuscript; we did not independently retrieve or deduplicate the underlying records. Three results are directly reportable: (1) China accounts for 254 records in the manuscript’s corresponding-author country table, compared with 26 for India, 25 for Brazil, 19 for Russia, and 10 for South Africa; (2) the most frequent indexed categories include Business and Management (76 records each), Environmental Sciences (69), and Green & Sustainable Science & Technology (60), with categories overlapping; and (3) the source reports 443 documents overall, while annual counts sum to 419, preventing a reliable year-by-year growth claim. These patterns indicate a China-centered, multi-field literature whose comparative and cross-national balance is limited. Future research should reconstruct and publish a deduplicated record-level dataset with a fixed search protocol and countryspecific validation.
Author: Duan, Carson
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225466099