Twenty years of the International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications: a bibliometric overview

ABSTRACT

In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, this study presents a general overview of the journal from 1998 to 2017 by using a bibliometric analysis. The objective is to identify the leading trends that have affected the journal during this time frame. In so doing, this study analyses a wide range of bibliometric issues including the publication and citation evolution of the journal, articles that cite the IJLRA, most-cited papers, most productive and influential authors, institutions and countries, and the evolution of author keywords. Additionally, the work develops a graphical visualisation of the bibliographic material published in IJLRA.

KEYWORDS:

• Supply chain
• logistics
• bibliometric
• citation analysis
• literature review

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to express their gratitude toward Dr. Dana Gottfried for his invaluable time spent on proofreading this manuscript.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

Chao Wang http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2076-9493

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Funding

This work has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61603011, 61773029, and 71772016), Beijing Social Science Fund (16JDGLC005), and International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program (20170016), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2015M580033), and Beijing Postdoctoral Research Foundation (2016ZZ-11). We gratefully acknowledge the discussions with and the support of Professor H. Eugene Stanley from Boston University. The Boston University, Center for Polymer Studies is supported by NSF grants PHY-1505000, CMMI-1125290, and CHE-1213217, and by DTRA grant HDTRA1-14-1-0017.