Seeing the Forest for the TreesSequel I: An Extension of the 1985-2017 Bibliometric Analysis of Environmental and Resource Sociology

Twenty years after the organized sessions on environmental sociology (ES) and natural resource sociology (NRS) at the 2000 International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, a featured collection on environmental and resource sociology came out in Society and Natural Resources. The four commentaries included in the special section provide insightful responses that help to clarify, strengthen, and expand the points we made in our bibliometric analysis article. Here, we present an extension of the previous analysis using more recent journal article collections (2017-2022), while incorporating responses to colleagues' major comments on our original article. The new bibliometric analysis of environmental and resource sociology suggests increasing cross-linkages between the ES and NRS subfields. It would be meaningful to conduct similar analyses of non-English counterpart literature in future research. Further dialogues should also shift the focus to diverse perspectives, experience, and practices of individual researchers, particularly emerging ES/NRS scholars.