CLIMATE CHANGE AND WOMEN’S SRHR LAW: BIBLIOMETRIC MAPPING

Abstract

This study maps peer-reviewed research at the intersection of climate change (and climate-related hazards), women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)/maternal health, and law–policy–rights–governance framing. Records were retrieved from Scopus and Web of Science and processed in R using bibliometric routines (Biblioshiny). After database-level filtering, dataset merging, and deduplication, a journal-aligned eligibility screening was applied to retain publications that jointly addressed climate-related exposure and women’s SRHR/maternal health with an explicit governance or rights dimension. The final corpus (n = 400; 2002–2025) was analyzed through annual production trends, source and author productivity, country outputs and collaboration patterns, global citation performance, and conceptual structures based on indexed terms and keyword co-occurrence. Results indicate a sharp acceleration in annual production after 2018 and a dispersed publication landscape across journals and authors. Country production is concentrated in a small set of high-output countries, with international co-authorship links spanning multiple regions. Thematic patterns cluster around pregnancy/women-focused health descriptors, climate and vulnerability terms, and biomedical mechanisms. The discussion situates the field as being in a growth and diversification stage and outlines implications for environmental law and rights-based climate governance.