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Research Trends in Sustainable Manufacturing: A Review and Future Perspective based on Research Databases

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Sustainable manufacturing has become of great importance in various fields include manufacturing, mechanical engineering, materials science, environmental science, and energy science. In this paper, we analyzed and reviewed the research trends of sustainable manufacturing technologies and suggested future perspective. Specifically, the state-of-the-art and historical trajectory of sustainable manufacturing are analyzed using data obtained from the Web of Science library and the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). Selected journals and research categories are evaluated by the number of publications, the number of citations, impact factor (IF), and H-indices. To suggest future perspectives on sustainable manufacturing research, growth rate of each research objects are evaluated and historically followed. Sustainable manufacturing is likely to be change in its nature in the era of digital transformation. It is expected to provide the status and future of research trends of sustainable manufacturing to the both manufacturing researchers and journal publishers.

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This work was supported by the Basic Research Lab Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (2018R1A4A1059976, NRF-2018R1A2A1A13078704, and NRF-2017K1A3A9A04013801), and supported by Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI) Creative Convergence Research Project (CAP-PBF087) funded by the National Research Council of Science and Technology (NST). This work was supported by the Brain Korea 21 Plus Project in 2019.

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    Hyun-Taek Lee

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    Hyun-Taek Lee, Ji-Hyeon Song, Soo-Hong Min, Hye-Sung Lee, Chong Nam Chu & Sung-Hoon Ahn

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Soongsil University, 369 Sando-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Ki Young Song

  4. Institute of Advanced Machines and Design, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 08826, Republic of Korea

    Chong Nam Chu & Sung-Hoon Ahn

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Lee, HT., Song, JH., Min, SH. et al. Research Trends in Sustainable Manufacturing: A Review and Future Perspective based on Research Databases. Int. J. of Precis. Eng. and Manuf.-Green Tech. 6, 809–819 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40684-019-00113-5

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