Journal article
An overview of 42 years of lean production: applying bibliometric analysis to investigate strategic themes and scientific evolution structure
LB Furstenau, MK Sott, AJO Homrich, LM Kipper, MS Dohan, JR López-Robles, MJ Cobo, GL Tortorella
Technology Analysis and Strategic Management | Published : 2021
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to apply bibliometric network analysis to the Lean Production (LP) field of study in order to investigate the strategic themes and the scientific evolution structure. To perform this research, VOSviewer and SciMAT were used to analyse 4,412 documents from 1977 to 2019. The performance analysis of publications, researchers, journals, universities and countries related to LP were measured quantitatively and qualitatively. 24 themes were presented and classified according to their centrality (importance) and density (development), and the intellectual structure of each theme is presented. Lastly, the scientific evolution structure shows the most important clusters over ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This study was financed in part by the Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior -Brazil (CAPES) Finance Code 001, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil (process number 303934/2019-0), and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under grants PID2019-105381GA-100 (iScience).