Development Goals towards Sustainability

The topic of the SDGs is very well debated in the literature and has a decidedly growing trend. In the past four and a half years, about 27,910 papers have been noted, where the keywords used in the Web of Science (WoS) were: (i) SDGs; (ii) Sustainable Development Goals; and (iii) SDG. The open access value shows that this option now represents the majority among published papers, even exceeding three-fifths. The 2023 data are close to that figure with 59%. We proceed to analyze the WoS categories , in which that related to Environmental Sciences stands out (29%) followed by Green Sustainable Science Technology (22%) and Environmental Studies (19%). The others turn out to be more detached, starting with Public Environmental Occupational Health (6%). Below, the geographical distribution of the published papers is analyzed, with two countries excelling over all others with about 15%: the USA (4154) and China (4138). It should be highlighted that the top ten countries encompass about 83% of the total value: United Kingdom (3115), India (2091), Australia (1963), Spain (1931), Germany (1675), Italy (1600), Canada (1315) and South Africa (1221). The trend in papers published by the WoS Index has the Science Citation Index Expanded (58%) leading, followed by the Social Sciences Citation Index (42%). The trend in papers published by the WoS Index sees the Science Citation Index Expanded excel (58%), followed by the Social Sciences Citation Index (42%). Finally, the last analysis proposes a map of the SDGs receiving the most attention (Figure 5). The results show that SDG3(1244) prevails followed by SDG2(1212) and SDG1(1201). SDG 14 (353) and SDG 16 (314) complete the ranking.