Bibliometric Analysis of Environmental, Social, and Governance Management Research from 2002 to 2021

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Is the content succinctly described and contextualized with respect to previous and present theoretical background and empirical research (if applicable) on the topic?

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Thanks to the comments of the committees, the past and present quantitative analysis research on ESG and the theoretical research development of ESGM have been described in the introduction.

Sec. 1, page1~2

Are the research design, questions, hypotheses, and methods clearly stated?

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Thanks to the committee members for comments, the research design, analysis methods and analysis steps have been more clearly explained in the Materials and methods chapter.

Sec 2.1, page2

Sec 2.2, page3

Are the arguments and discussion of findings coherent, balanced and compelling?

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Thanks to the committee members for comments, I have added more opinions and discussions from the results and discussion in the conclusion, so that the demonstration and discussion of the survey results are more coherent, balanced and logical.

Sec.4. Page17

For empirical research, are the results clearly presented?

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Thanks to the comments of the members, more opinions and discussions from the results and discussion have been added to the conclusion to make the survey results more complete and clearer.

Sec.4. Page18~19

The importance of results of research for the academic community is not clearly stated. Moreover, it is difficult to answer how this paper addresses the scope of the Special Issue “Sustainable Management Systems for Sustainable Organizations”.

Thank you for your guidance. The importance of ESG and ESGM research has been explained in the introduction in sequence. According to our team’s search, this research is the first long-term (nearly 20 years) ESG measurement analysis research from a management perspective. The importance of academics has been stated in the revised introduction. Secondly, it is explained whether the results of this research conform to the scope of the special issue: ESG was originally the corporate evaluation benchmark proposed by the United Nations in who cares winds report in 2004, and later studies have explored ESG planning, implementation, assessment, and control from a management perspective. , and has gradually become an indicator for investors to evaluate the sustainable development of enterprises. Because the enterprise itself is an organization that pursues sustainable development, and ESGM's research is to explore various perspectives on how various organizations including enterprises conduct environmental, social and governance management to achieve sustainable development, which should undoubtedly be in line with the special issue of initial scope of requirements. This research, which is the first quantitative literature analysis of ESGM, is the most important research and development trend of ESGM in the past 20 years. Therefore, the purpose of this study should also conform to the scope of the special issue; Secondly, through this research, it is found that many ESGM research results are indeed related to the focus of adaptation required at the human level required by the special issue. It is contributed to facing with the challenges of rapid changes in the current environment and economy, this is one of the key points of the special issue. Thanks to the guidance of the committee members, these research findings have been supplemented with revised conclusions. Therefore, the research purpose and results of this research indeed meet the requirements of the special issue and the relevant focus.

Sec. 1, page1~2

Sec. 4, page19

The choice of research methodology for given study, i.a. the limitation of chosen methods, is not explained.

The limitations of this paper have been clearly explained in the research method. First of all, in the database section, this research mainly focuses on the data in the WOS database (SCI, SCIE and SSCI) and selects two types of articles, article, and review. And according to the opinions of the committees, a description is added to the research methods section.

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Sec. 4, page19

 The Results and Discussion Sections contains mainly numerical results and takes 13 pages, while the Conclusion Section, which is expected to determine the significance of obtained results, based on their explanatory description in Discussion Section, contains only 0.5 pages.

The results and discussion sections have added important results and limitations and recommendations based on members' comments.

Sec. 4, page18~19

To make this paper publishable, the authors need to respond the following substantive points: to identify the importance of results of research for the academic community; to explain the choice of research methodology for given study, especially its limitations; to revise both Results and Discussion Sections and Conclusion Section according to the Comment 3.

1. Thank you for your guidance. The importance of ESG and ESGM research has been explained in the introduction in sequence. According to our team’s search, this research is the first long-term (nearly 20 years) ESG measurement analysis research from a management perspective. The research results are helpful for a complete and brief understanding of the current ESG research priorities and trends.

2. In the material and methods chapter, the limitations of the method chosen in this study have been explained. There are two main points. The first is that the sources of data analyzed by the method currently used are limited to published studies, and the latest studies that have not been published will be omitted. The second is limited by the current operational analysis capabilities, this study only uses keywords and is limited to the chapter content of “Abstract” for analysis.

3. More opinions and discussions extracted from results and discussion have been added to the conclusion to make the argumentation and discussion of the survey results more coherent, balanced and logical.

Sec. 1, page1~2

Sec. 2, page3

Sec. 4, page18~19

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Are all the cited references relevant to the research? 

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Thanks to the opinions of the committees, after more careful research and screening, 11 references with low research relevance have been deleted, the number has been adjusted to 99, and book references [6] and [27] have been added. Literature review References [3], [7], [30]

Big-data has been revised to [30] literature review.

Sec. 5, page19~24

1. Too many cited references, more than 100 cited references is somewhat strange to me in such a short article, and it seems that most references are really not extremely important since you cite the references as a range of numbers like 28-30 or 64-67. Perhaps if you can concentrate on the references closer to your topic, avoid references from other sciences unrelated to sustainability such as "medical big data", then you can reduce the number of references to a shorter list. There is also no need to be exhaustive and cite all the references in a literature. I often cite papers that are from Handbooks or Literature Review journals to refer readers to more exhaustive and longer lists of the literature.

Thanks to the comments of the committees, after more careful research screening, references with low relevance to the research have been deleted

Sec. 4, page17

Sec. 5, page19~24

2) Some of the Figures have text that is hard to read. The authors can make the text of Figures 4, 5 and 6 easier to read. Figure 6 is especially hard to read.

Thanks to the comments of the committees, Figure 4, Figure 5, Figure 6 have been revised.

Sec. 3.4, page12~14

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Are the research design, questions, hypotheses and methods clearly stated?

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Thanks to the committee members for comments, the research design, analysis methods and analysis steps have been more clearly explained in the Materials and methods chapter.

Sec 2.1, page2

Sec 2.2, page3

Are the arguments and discussion of findings coherent, balanced and compelling?

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Thanks to the committees for comments, I have added more opinions and discussions from the results and discussion in the conclusion, so that the demonstration and discussion of the survey results are more coherent, balanced and logical.

Sec.4. Page17

For empirical research, are the results clearly presented?

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Thanks to the comments of the committees, more opinions and discussions from the results and discussion have been added to the conclusion to make the survey results more completely and clearly.

Sec.4. Page18~19

Are the conclusions thoroughly supported by the results presented in the article or referenced in secondary literature?

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This research has added the limited content of the research results to the conclusion, and adhered to the principle of limitation, and re-examined the content of the conclusions, which are all supported by the results and discussions of this paper and the secondary data.

Sec.4.page17~19

First, research question/s are not stated clearly. Therefore, the goal of the study is unclear, the research gap cannot be identified. What for such a profound research has been initiated?

ESG was originally the corporate evaluation benchmark proposed by the United Nations in who cares winds report in 2004. Since then, there have been studies to discuss ESG planning, implementation, assessment and control from a management perspective, as well as to explore how various organizations including enterprises from a management perspective to manage the three aspects of environment, society and governance to achieve various viewpoints of sustainable development, the so-called ESGM research has been formed, and it has gradually become an indicator for investors to evaluate the sustainable development of enterprises. However, faced with increasingly severe society, changes in the environment (such as climate change) and even the impact of the COVID-19 in recent years have made it more and more challenging to contribute to sustainable development through ESG initiatives. Therefore, if there is a bibliometric analysis study based on ESGM, its research results will contribute to a complete understanding of current priorities and trends, and further contribute to a creative source of suggestions for improvement in the field of ESG management.

Sec. 1, page1~2

Second, this is not the first bibliometric research in the field, considering the references. Then, how does it differ from previous studies? The novelty and contribution should be strengthened.

Thank you for your guidance. The importance of ESG and ESGM research has been explained in the introduction. There are 7 quantitative analysis studies in the introduction. They are ESG in different industries and different concerns (such as achieving viable economic growth, explore the ability to adapt to climate change, etc.) According to our team's search, this study is the first ESG measurement analysis study on a long-term scale (nearly 20 years) from the perspective of management, and it is the first study that can provide a relatively complete ESG current research focus in the field of management and trend research results.

Sec. 1, page1~2

Third, in my opinion, the description of methods is very brief and confusing. I'd propose to re-write it based on the logic: action-tools-results for each stage of the research.

Thanks to the reminder of the committee members, it has been revised and added to use "Bibliometrix" (R language) to analyze the relationship between the three fields (journals, keywords and research institutions) and authors according to the Sequence Diagram. Afterwards, the dataset was analyzed on VOSviewer software to construct author, source, country and keyword nonoccurence analysis of literature, and finally, the visual time series of CiteSpace software was used to explore important research trends

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Fourth, it is unclear why WoS has been chosen, not Scopus or other sources.

Thanks to the reviewer for the reminder, I did discuss these major databases at the beginning, but the reason for choosing WOS and Scopus was that

1. The data of WOS are mainly academic journals, which are the core journals in various fields, and most of them are important academic achievements. Although the scope of the data in SCOPUS is very wide, it includes business journals, books, patents and academic network data. , which will affect the results of cutting-edge research.

2. SCOPUS was launched by Elsevier in 2004. Although the bibliographic data can be traced back to 1966, only the data after 1996 has been included in the bibliography; WOS was launched in 1997, and the bibliographic data SCIE can be traced back to 1899, SSCI The earliest dates back to 1898. We chose WOS because we wanted to understand important cutting-edge research on this topic.

Sec 2.1, page2

Fifth, the conclusion should delineate the limitations of the study.

A statement of research limitations has been added to the conclusions.

Sec. 4, page19