With the effect of industrialization and globalization, a rapid increase has occurred in the use of water resources in parallel with the rapid increase in the welfare levels of societies and population increase in the last century. People consume water directly or indirectly during the day. Protection of water resources has become an important and current issue for the sustainability of future generations. In this study, studies on water footprint around the world are discussed and summarized. With the detailed analysis of 2138 publications (access date to WOS: February 1, 2021) in the "water footprint" or “green water footprint” or “blue water footprint” or “grey water footprint” topics between 2006 and 2021 in the Web of Science database, it is aimed to shed light on researchers who plan to work in this field. With bibliometric analysis, issue trends were analysed with the number of publications, publication year, country, institutions and universities, publication language, type of publication, cited references information and keywords. In this study, visual contents were prepared using VOSviewer.

Author Name: Elif ÇALOĞLU BÜYÜKSELÇUK

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Keywords: Water footprint, VOSviewer, Bibliometric analysis, Web of Science

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