EMERGING TRENDS AND COLLABORATIVE NETWORK PATTERNS ON REVERSE LOGISTICS

Reverse Logistics includes the planning, implementation and control of the reverse flow of post-sales and post-consumption goods. The purpose of this article is to identify emerging collaborative networks and scientific areas on Reverse Logistics (RL) using temporal, geospatial and topical analyses. The study is based on the bibliometric networks analysis, a technique used to measure scientific development, production indexes and dissemination of knowledge. The main results of the research stand out the relationship of knowledge areas and scientific gaps, the identification of the main authors and the aspects related to the social network of cooperation of the authors such as country citat ion and network density.