Sustainable production: A bibliometric review

Abstract

The purpose of this document is to determine the scope of studies on sustainable manufacturing, to identify influential journals, authors and documents, to analyze the intellectual structure of the relevant field, and to reveal emerging themes and research gaps on the subject. In this study, 1264 articles published between 1987-2022 from the Web of Science database about sustainable manufacturing were subjected to bibliometric analysis. The Biblio-metrix package in the R program was used for data analysis and visualization. In the study, both descriptive analyzes for sustainable production literature were used, and keyword analyzes were used to determine current and future trends. The findings reveal that the literature on sustainable manufacturing is quite new. Examining citation analyzes of journals, authors, and documents reveals that the results provide a high level of scientific content for a newly growing literature.