Implementation of circular economy in supply chain management: a bibliometric analysis

Abstract

Supply chains have a high environmental impact; while the circular economy generates sustainable benefits through the reuse of resources, in this sense, circular supply chains integrate the sustainability of supply chains. The objective is to analyze the implementation of circular economy in supply chain management during the period 2021 - 2023. The research is of a descriptive quantitative type, based on a bibliometric analysis, it was developed in the Scopus database and only research articles found in open access in the areas of engineering, business, management and accounting sciences were taken into account. A total of 293 research papers were identified, the largest number of papers were published in 2022 with 114. The most representative author was Kazancoglu with eight publications. The institution that contributed the most articles was Yaşar Universitesi with 10 researches. The country that published the most was United Kingdom with 76 researches. The researches were published in 83 scientific journals, the most published was Journal of Cleaner Production (n=39), and in turn the most cited with 1138 citations, the one with the highest impact in Scopus was International Journal of Production Economics (IF=11,849)