Twenty years of green innovation research: trends and way forward

PurposeThis paper aims to analyze the publication structure of academic research on green innovation (GI) between 2000 and 2019.Design/methodology/approachBibliographic data on GI are extracted from the Scopus database, and then they were analyzed through VOSviewer software.FindingsThis paper analyzes 653 publications on GI from 2000 to 2019. For so doing, the study identifies the most productive countries, universities, authors, journals and the most prolific publications in GI. Besides, the study uses VOSviewer software to visualize the mapping based on co-citation, bibliographic coupling (BC) and co-occurrence of keywords.Originality/valueThe main contribution of the study is that it provides an overview of the trends and trajectories of GI, which may help the researchers and the practitioners to comprehend the trends and future research directions.