EXPLORING CONCOMITANT CONCEPTS IN THE DISCUSSION ON THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF WEB OF SCIENCE, SCOPUS AND TWITTER

A growing interest in the circular economy, which is seen intensification of public discourse, could lead to a danger blurring concept and introducing inefficiency implementing economy-based solutions. This study explores trend concomitant or accompanying concepts discussion about economy themes understanding regarding scientific publications (3,486 from Web Science Scopus) popular (non-scientific) domain (represented by 106,504 tweets) years 2011–2018. By employing text mining, we calculated Jaccard similarity index divided into years. The results reveal changes over time rising recognition research-related keywords general discussion, with unweighted reaching 39.44% 2018. Our Twitter keyword research perspective indicates need consider consumer’s role development – through that are closely related consumers’ daily activities.