Green manufacturing literature during three decades: A scientometric approach

The research aimed to map the global green manufacturing academic literature indexed by Scopus by using a scientometric approach and analysis was done by using the analysis search results service from Scopus and the VOSviewer application. The research data consisted of 1,386 academic literature published from 1993 to 2019 were obtained from the Scopus database. The results show that the most productive countries, research institutions, and individual researchers in green manufacturing literature were China; Chongqing University; and Liu, F. The most intensive subject areas and sources of publications in green manufacturing literature are engineering and the Applied Mechanics and Materials. There are six collaborative researchers’ group patterns. The research proposes a convergence axis classification consisting of green manufacturing literature to characterize the body of knowledge generated from three decades of publications: machining, environment, sustainable development, energy, manufacture, computer science, and tools.