Circular Economy – a quick review

Abstract

The paper presents improving the research process on circular economy information using VOS Viewer software. The first part of the paper presents a series of information on the differences between using bibliometrics and scientometrics as research methods of the scientific literature. Also presents a number of aspects related to the beginning of the research process and the research methodology. The second part of the paper presents that the information about circular economy were acquired as plain text files form the Web of Science database and the results were viewed using VOS Viewer software. This software is a software for building and viewing bibliometric networks. The third part of the paper presents the fact that scientometricanalyzes highlight the directions of research in a field, are easy to do, are helpful for a literature review and provide opportunities for researching. The research was made in Web of Science and it were found 6.618 documents about circular economy.