Innovations and Industry 4.0: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

The article is aimed at researching the specifics of the concepts of «innovation» and «Industry 4.0», based on a bibliometric analysis and a visualization of the results obtained. A review of 720 publications (articles and conference materials) from the Scopus scientometric database for the period of 2014-2020 was carried out, making use of the combination of two concepts with the boolean operator «AND». The Scopus database was searched in the field «title, abstract, keywords». The results were visualized using the VOSviewer software. As result of the study, the dynamics of publication activity by year and the corresponding number of quotations are determined. It is determined that publications mainly belong to one of the following areas of knowledge: engineering sciences, computer science, business, management and accounting. The authors who have the largest number of publications within the research subjects, as well as the most quoted studies, are allocated. It is defined that Germany, Italy, the United States, China, Brazil and the United Kingdom are the countries where innovativeness and Industry 4.0 issues are worked out in the most detail. The keyword clusters are also formed. The obtained results of the analysis and visualization are relevant and form the basis for a better understanding of the concepts of innovativeness and Industry 4.0. Prospect for further research in this direction is the detailed development of the Internet of Things and digital transformation.

Keywords

• innovations
• industry 4.0
• bibliometric analysis
• country
• quotation