Trends in global research on industrial parks: A bibliometric analysis from 1996–2019

Abstract

Industrial parks have been used to promote the economic development of countries. However, its rapid growth has generated environmental problems related to the depletion of natural resources and pollution. Consequently, the network analysis and the bibliometric analysis applied in this research generated qualitative and quantitative information from a systemic perspective on the thematic and community evolution of research on industrial parks (IP) performed to improve its negative environmental impact and reach sustainability. This study used the Web of Science (WoS) database from 1996 – 2019. The main trends and critical research points were identified in four periods of 6-year each. Social network analysis (SNA) was used to identify the intellectual structure main and the academic collaboration networks established among countries/territories, institutions, and authors. The most productive country in articles is currently China (882), however, when we consider the frequency of articles per million inhabitants, it ranks seventh. The WoS database grouped 63.6 ​% of the articles published in the subjects of “Environmental Sciences & Ecology”, “Engineering”, and “Science & Technology - Other Topics”. Industrial Ecology (IE), Industrial Symbiosis (IS), and Circular Economy (CE) were the author keywords with the highest frequency, indicating that IP research has focused from these perspectives to promote the exchange of byproducts and to evaluate the performance and environmental impact of industrial areas through the use of methodologies such as carbon footprints, emergy analysis, and life cycle analysis (LCA). Finally, some themes were identified and proposed for future research based on analyzing research trends and hot spots from the literature review on industrial parks.

Análisis bibliométrico sobre Sistemas de Producción Lean Circular

“…Por consiguiente, se realiza un enfoque bibliométrico que ha sido abrazado por diferentes autores Nyika & Dinka, (2022); Naseer et al, (2022), además Fuentes Barrera et al, (2021) define a la bibliometría como un método estadístico evolutivo cuantitativo con la finalidad de analizar el crecimiento de las investigaciones sobre un tema específico a través de la literatura encontrada. La revisión se enfoca en el área de LC, por lo que se consideró como motor de búsqueda principal a Dimensions, dada que es una infraestructura que recopila y organiza la información de diversas fuentes, tales como publicaciones científicas, registros de investigaciones, patentes, datos de citas y es demasiada completa permitiendo a los investigadores establecer vínculos entre una amplia gama de datos investigativos.…”

Spatial-Rating Assessment of Entrepreneurial Performance in Industrial Parks of Russian Regions

“…Other factors include separately considered indicators for assessing social and external efficiency (Samostroenko & Shatokhina, 2016), the share of residents in the economic activity of the region (Akberdina et al, 2017;Gupta, 2020;Greenstone et al, 2010). Also, there are separately distinguished groups of performance indicators of anchor residents and residents based on the territory of IP (Barrera et al, 2021), factors of production growth (Kuznetsova et al, 2019), indicators of the economic efficiency of the park residents, and the budgetary efficiency of the park residents (Samostroenko & Shatokhina, 2016). Within the framework of the above papers, there is no unified point of view, neither regarding the directions for assessing the ES performance in the IP operation system, nor regarding the choice of the most significant indicators that characterise them.…”

Unfolding research themes for industrial symbiosis and underlying theories

“…Furthermore, we present a bibliometric study which may indicate IS trends to be investigated in future studies. Bibliometric studies are used to understand IS themes, being useful to offer information to researchers (Fuentes Barrera et al, 2021).…”