Industry 4.0 and Sustainability: A Bibliometric Literature Review

Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann and Celeste Varum
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Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann: CEF.UP, FEP, University of Porto, 4200-464 Porto, Portugal
Celeste Varum: GOVCOPP, DEGEIT, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 6, 1-15

Abstract: Industry 4.0 (I4.0), Sustainability, and the Circular Economy are recently popularized concepts likely to redefine how economies and industries work. This paper, as the opening piece of this Special Issue, consists of a bibliometric study of 393 articles linking the Issue’s key themes: Industry 4.0, Sustainability and the Circular Economy. Given that this is still a recent area of the literature, and the fact that it already commands a fast-growing number of publications, the provision of an updated overview of the relevant scientific production in the field is a relevant contribution.

Keywords: Industry 4.0; sustainability; circular economy; bibliometric; review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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