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Green marketing (green marketing) is a strategy that aims to apply marketing principles that contribute to the care of the environment and its conservation. The purpose of this research is to examine the approach and historical evolution of green marketing through literature review. For this purpose, Elsevier's Scopus database was accessed, and a query string was written in English to obtain all documents that contain the word green marketing, whether in the title, abstract or keywords. The type of documents selected were original scientific articles in the final publication stage within the sources indexed in the Scopus database during the period from 1992 to 2022. The Bibliometrix program was used for data analysis. The results show a number of 1119 articles, a growing increase from 2019 to 2022, with 100; 114; 120 and 149 publications respectively, an annual growth in publications of (18.15%), the highest result of citations per article was the year 1999 with an average value of 305.67 citations. In a cloud of words, those with the most co-occurrences in the documents were identified, among them are: marketing (272); commerce (79) green marketing (79); sustainable development (78); consumption behavior (74). It is concluded that green marketing since its inception has had the purpose of raising awareness among humanity about the conservation and care of the environment.