Bibliometric Analysis on Reverse Logistics in the Scopus Database: A Guide for Future Studies

The reverse logistics (RL) concept has become increasingly popular due to the rising socio-environmental crisis, encompassing climate changes, pollutions and numerous health issues caused by pollutions. Therefore, a bibliometric analysis was conducted on RL guide future research. This study utilised VOSviewer software conduct from 1995 2020. Precisely, 1146 papers were retrieved analysed identify most prolific prominent authors journals, co-authorship, co-occurrence. co-authorship co-occurrence findings discovered that United States of America (USA) leads RL-related article publications as institutions’ cooperation rate is high. ‘Reverse logistics’, ‘remanufacture’, ‘waste management’ critical keywords in literature. undertaken determine trends field. present research determined publication trend continuously increases forecasted increase constantly. directions for studies demonstrated through analysis.