TY - JOUR
T1 - Discover the trend and evolution of sustainable manufacturing: a thematic and bibliometric analysis
AU - Yip, Wai Sze
AU - Zhou, Hongting
AU - To, Suet
N1 - Funding Information:
The work described in this paper was mainly supported by the funding support to the State Key Laboratories in Hong Kong from the Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), China.
The authors would also like to express their sincere thanks for the financial support from the Research Office (Project code: BBXM and BBX) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2022/6
Y1 - 2022/6
N2 - Manufacturing, as one of the most important sectors in a civilized society, has a strong impact on our city’s sustainability issues, and it is therefore justified in taking a more sustainable approach in the future. As a consequence, research works and the research trend of sustainable manufacturing (SM) play a critical role in supporting the sustainable development of industries. With the knowledge of the research themes on SM from the past to the present, preferred options for planning the future of manufacturing and executing SM could be offered to industries. Motivated by this, this study presents a thematic and bibliometric analysis on research papers of SM, with the goal of providing an overall overview of SM research trends, as well as identifying the critical time of having major breakthroughs and evolution of the corresponding research works by comparing the research themes across the longitudinal timeline. A thematic analysis was used to determine the keywords and main themes of the research on SM in various time frames, as well as the perspectives on how the research works in relation to current technology and dynamic changes. Finally, the three stages of SM research were determined based on the overall results. Furthermore, this article demonstrates the research directions and advancements of SM in 2020, presenting the most recent research trends in SM to both industry and academia.
AB - Manufacturing, as one of the most important sectors in a civilized society, has a strong impact on our city’s sustainability issues, and it is therefore justified in taking a more sustainable approach in the future. As a consequence, research works and the research trend of sustainable manufacturing (SM) play a critical role in supporting the sustainable development of industries. With the knowledge of the research themes on SM from the past to the present, preferred options for planning the future of manufacturing and executing SM could be offered to industries. Motivated by this, this study presents a thematic and bibliometric analysis on research papers of SM, with the goal of providing an overall overview of SM research trends, as well as identifying the critical time of having major breakthroughs and evolution of the corresponding research works by comparing the research themes across the longitudinal timeline. A thematic analysis was used to determine the keywords and main themes of the research on SM in various time frames, as well as the perspectives on how the research works in relation to current technology and dynamic changes. Finally, the three stages of SM research were determined based on the overall results. Furthermore, this article demonstrates the research directions and advancements of SM in 2020, presenting the most recent research trends in SM to both industry and academia.
KW - Bibliometric analysis
KW - Evolution
KW - Sustainable manufacturing
KW - Text mining
KW - Thematic analysis
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U2 - 10.1007/s11356-022-19634-9
DO - 10.1007/s11356-022-19634-9
M3 - Review article
C2 - 35298803
AN - SCOPUS:85126463301
SN - 0944-1344
VL - 29
SP - 38899
EP - 38911
JO - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
JF - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
IS - 26
ER -
