A BIBLIOMETRIC REVIEW ANALYSIS ON ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION IN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVES: MAPPING TRENDS

Abstract

An environmental crisis is critical as it hurts the ecological, physical, and spiritual aspects.  An extensive ecological and spiritual is necessary to comprehend this issue. The purpose of this study is to review the plethora of studies on environmental conservation from an Islamic perspective. This study uses a bibliometric analysis using RStudio to analyse the current research stream and assess trends in this topic. A total of 451 publications were retrieved from the Scopus database to reveal the knowledge structure of the past, current and future trends by assessing the most influential past publication, determining the structure of the co-cited publications and evaluating trends for future studies, historical development, keyword, citation and co-citation, institutions, and country-wise analyses were performed. The study produced three ground-breaking research streams evaluated using bibliometric analyses: environment protection studies and sustainable development from an Islamic perspective, economics protection from an Islamic perspective and issues of environmental problems, socioeconomic and religion towards Islamic perspectives. The outcome would facilitate future scholars linking this topic to environmental conservation.