A Bibliometric Study of Key Journals in Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has acquired great relevance in the last decades, due to the growth in the social trend of giving greater emphasis to social problems and those activities carried out by companies and corporations. The purpose of this study aims to investigate and present the evolution of academic research and the publications on this topic, between 1990 and 2014. To accomplish this, the research used the Web of Science digital platform, whose database is usually considered the most important and complete for bibliometric research of this kind. Results show a strong increase in research and the study of CSR for the last years.