Document Type : Original Manuscript
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1 Department of Management, Faculty of Economics, Management and Social science, Shiraz University, Iran
2 Department of Maritime Transportation, Faculty of Economics and Management, Khorramshahr University of Marine Science and Technology, Khorramshahr, Iran.
3 Department of Management, Faculty of Economics, Management and Social science, Shiraz University, Iran.
Abstract
The maritime industry, Similar to many other industries, is adopting industry 4.0. The implementation of industry 4.0 presents significant advantages to the maritime industry including, creating new value, fostering cooperation between port actors reducing operational cost. This paper aims to analyze the most intellectual structure of industry 4.0 and maritime research. To identify the main clusters of this research, a document co-citation analysis was applied. Furthermore, the trend of total publications, the most cited authors, Geographical distribution, and cooperation of countries of this domain was analyzed with the help of CiteSpace and Histcite Software packages. The data collected for bibliometric analysis were collected from the web of science in the timespan of 2011 to 2021. The results reveal that the number of publications in Maritime 4.0 has significantly increased since 2011 and will continue to grow rapidly in the next few years. Regarding the Geographical Distribution of Publications in the research domain, such publications primarily originate from People R China, the USA, and Italy. According to document co-citation analysis, Digitalization, Artificial intelligence, and Blockchain are the most active clusters of maritime 4.0 research.
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