naa a22 4500 510806414 CHVBK 20180411083420.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11625-012-0185-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11625-012-0185-1 Identification and analysis of the highly cited knowledge base of sustainability science [Elektronische Daten] [R. Buter, A. Van Raan] We investigated the interdisciplinary ‘pillars' of scientific knowledge on which the emerging field of sustainability science is founded, using a bibliometric approach and data from the Web of Science database. To find this scientific basis, we first located publications that represent a relevant part of sustainability science and then extracted the set of best cited publications, which we called the highly cited knowledge base (HCKB). To find the research orientation in this set, we inspected the occurrence of fields and contrasted this with the occurrence of fields in other publication sets relevant to sustainability science. We also created a network of co-cited HCKB publications using the seed set citations, extracted communities or clusters in this network and visualised the result. Additionally, we inspected the most cited publications in these HCKB clusters. We found that themes related to the three pillars of sustainable development (environment, economy and sociology) are all present in the HCKB, although social science (not including economics) is less visible. Finally, we found increasing diversity of fields and clusters in the citations of the seed set, indicating that the field of sustainability science is not yet moving into a more transdisciplinary state. Springer, 2012 Sustainability science nationallicence Knowledge base nationallicence Bibliometric analysis nationallicence Network visualisation nationallicence Clustering nationallicence Trends nationallicence Transdisciplinarity nationallicence Buter R. Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, P.O. Box 905, 2300 AX, Leiden, The Netherlands aut Van Raan A. Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, P.O. Box 905, 2300 AX, Leiden, The Netherlands aut Sustainability Science Springer Japan 8/2(2013-04-01), 253-267 1862-4065 8:2<253 2013 8 11625 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-012-0185-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-012-0185-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Buter R. Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, P.O. Box 905, 2300 AX, Leiden, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Van Raan A. Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, P.O. Box 905, 2300 AX, Leiden, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Sustainability Science Springer Japan 8/2(2013-04-01), 253-267 1862-4065 8:2<253 2013 8 11625 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer