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Research on green supply chain: a bibliometric analysis

Authors: Keivan Amirbagheri, Ana Núñez-Carballosa, Laura Guitart-Tarrés, José M. Merigó

Published in: Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy | Issue 1/2019

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Recently, the emergent concept of green supply chain has received increasing attention. Although popular among scholars, many literature reviews have only examined GSC from a general point of view or focused on a specific issue related to GSC. This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the influence and productivity of research on GSC from 1995 to 2017 by reporting trends among authors, countries and institutions based on a bibliometric approach. To this end, the study analyzes around 1900 papers on GSC. This study uses the Web of Science Core Collection database to analyze the bibliometric data and the visualization of similarities viewer method to graphically map those data. The graphical analysis uses bibliographic coupling, co-citation, co-authorship and co-occurrence of keywords.

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Title: Research on green supply chain: a bibliometric analysis
Authors: Keivan Amirbagheri
Ana Núñez-Carballosa
Laura Guitart-Tarrés
José M. Merigó
Publication date: 15-10-2018
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy / Issue 1/2019
Print ISSN: 1618-954X
Electronic ISSN: 1618-9558
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-018-1624-1

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