Emerging themes in procurement, a bibliometric analysis
Emerging themes in procurement, a bibliometric analysis

Summary/Abstract: This work aims to identify emerging themes in Procurement, through an exploratory analysis of the literature. The research method is bibliometric review with Vosviewer software. The selection considered articles published from the year 2000 onwards in international publications available on the Web of Science and Scopus platforms. We started with a universe of 7529 articles, reduced to 4440 after reviewing the keywords and then 1498 articles after selecting the areas of activity of the journals, adhering to the research object. Duplicates were then eliminated, totaling 1179 articles. As a result of the research, we point out: (a) a 7.5 times greater number of publications about Procurement identified in 2020 compared to 2000, supporting the growing importance of the topic; (b) the analysis of the most important journals on the topic considered impact by Quartile, H Index and Qualis and demonstrated a lack of alignment between the metrics and prestige of the journals; (c) in the most cited articles, three groups of subjects were identified: (1) Supplier selection, contracting and management process; (2) Technological innovation; (3) Sustainable procurement.

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