Knowledge mapping of port logistics in the recent 20 Years: a bibliometric analysis via CiteSpace

ABSTRACT

Scientific development can be extracted from published literature through its footprints. The information visualisation software, CiteSpace, was used to study relevant data in the field of port logistics from 2000 to 2020 in the Web of Science database, including literature, keywords, co-cited literature, etc., to generate visual knowledge mapping. The number of publications has increased annually, and the growth rate has accelerated since 2015. The country with the largest number of papers is China, followed by the United States and South Korea. China’s Shanghai Maritime University has the most published literature. The productive author (with the most published papers so far) is Jasmine Siu Lee Lam. Keywords, such as modelg, management, systems, performance, transport, supply chain, and optimization are the most frequently used. Research hotspots mainly focused on simulation, transportation, location, ports-hinterland, supply chain management, service, allocation, policy, integration, and so on. Finally, we highlighted the potential directions for future research to aid readers and other researchers and provide them with some references.

KEYWORDS:

• Port logistics
• CiteSpace
• visual analysis
• knowledge mapping
• bibliometric

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Funding

This work was supported by the Educational Science Planning of Zhejiang Province [2017SCG365].