T. Botelho de Sousa and F. Raphael Cabral Furtado and O. Eduardo da Silva Ferri and A. Batista and W. Augusto Varella and C. Eduardo Pinto and J. Mimar Santa Cruz Yabarrena and S. Gibran Ruwer and F. Müller Guerrini and L. Adalberto Philippsen Júnior
Scientific Production on Lean Supply Chains Published in Journals Indexed by SCOPUS and Web of Science Databases A Bibliometric Study
835 - 842
2018
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International Journal of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10009244
https://publications.waset.org/vol/138
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
Lean Supply Chain Management (LSCM) is an emerging research field in Operations Management (OM). As a strategic model that focuses on reduced cost and waste with fulfilling the needs of customers, LSCM attracts great interest among researchers and practitioners. The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of Lean Supply Chains literature, based on bibliometric analysis through 57 papers published in indexed journals by SCOPUS andor Web of Science databases. The results indicate that the last three years (2015, 2016, and 2017) were the most productive on LSCM discussion, especially in Supply Chain Management and International Journal of Lean Six Sigma journals. India, USA, and UK are the most productive countries; nevertheless, crosscountry studies by collaboration among researchers were detected, by social network analysis, as a research practice, appearing to play a more important role on LSCM studies. Despite existing limitation, such as limited indexed journal database, bibliometric analysis helps to enlighten ongoing efforts on LSCM researches, including most used technical procedures and collaboration network, showing important research gaps, especially, for development countries researchers.
Open Science Index 138, 2018