ENVIRONMENTAL CERTIFICATION

Abstract

In recent years, business institutions need to incorporate into their market strategies
the adoption of actions and practices aimed at environmental conservation, due to
the growing social pressure in favor of an environmentally sustainable posture. In
this sense, Environmental Certification emerges, whose purpose is to signal to
consumers the differences between products resulting from environmentally
sustainable processes and their substitutes. The objective of this work is to make a
quantitative analysis of the scientific production in the respective area that were
published in the WEB OF SCIENCE/ISI database. Partial results indicate that: (1) In
2019, the highest percentage of publications was published in the period, that is,
almost 12% of the works found; (2) the most prolific authors in the period were
Panzieri M. and Vlosky R.P., with 06 of the articles each, 94.69% of the authors
published only 1 article on the subject in the analyzed period and do not demonstrate
to have continuity of research, the authors the most prolific in the period were
Panzieri M and Vlosky RP, with 06 articles each; (3) In a universe of 519 institutions,
the UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA was the most fruitful, producing 09
(2.542%) of the articles; (4) The journal with the highest number of published
research is the JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, with 16 publications,
representing 4,520% of the total. It is suggested that future studies carry out

qualitative research aiming at a greater detail on the real difficulties experienced by
researchers in the production and publication of their respective works.