Identifying the Research Trends and Subfields of the social manufacturing paradigm

Abstract

In recent years, studies on the paradigm of social Manufacturing and its applications have been developed as a new production paradigm and have led to the production of diverse and scattered knowledge in this field. Knowing the sub-fields, new topics and the research process of the social production paradigm can be of great help to researchers in this field. The current research has been carried out with the aim of identifying and categorizing research in the field of social Manufacturing, recognizing sub-fields and achieving a coherent view of its research process.This research has investigated the research field of social Manufacturing using bibliometric analysis. The data of this research was collected from 200 articles of the Scopus database and an analysis of the co-occurrence analysis of key words and bibliographic pairs was performed on them, and in this way the sub-fields and the research process of this field were identified.Based on the findings of this study, the research in the field of social Manufacturing has been categorized into 5 clusters and it has also been determined that in recent years, topics such as cloud computing, smart production, blockchain, Internet of Things, social physical cyber systems, innovation systems, society 5.0 and Digital twins have received more attention in research in this field. This research provides a framework of concepts and main topics of interest in the research field of social production, which provides a comprehensive perspective for researchers in this field that can help in choosing their research path.

Keywords

• social manufacturing
• bibliometric analysis
• bibliographi coupling
• keyword co-occurrence