Analysis of Evaluation Methods of Sustainable Supply Chain Management in Production Engineering Journals with High Impact

• Main Authors: Mauro Lizot, Pedro Paulo Andrade Júnior, Flavio Trojan, Carolina Sales Magacho, Shirley Suellen Thesari, Andreia Santos Goffi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2019-12-01
• Series: Sustainability
• Subjects: sustainable supply chain management; research methods; scientific production; metrics; indicators
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/1/270

Nowadays, scholars need to know the trends for specific themes and how the main methods are applied to solve the gaps. The research problem for this work is the assessment of methods used in the sustainable supply chain, published in journals with a high impact factor and especially in the production engineering field. The methodology utilized was an adapted version of the “Methodi Ordinatio”, in structured stages to select a limited class of papers of high scientific relevance, to show how the methods are being used. The search steps included the filtering of journals in the research field with relevant impact factors and selecting databases and keywords; reading titles and abstracts; classifying the number of citations; and critical reading of all papers listed in the bibliographic portfolio. The research results and analysis of frequency of papers in the portfolio were used to identify and describe the most commonly used evaluation methods, the correlated theories, advantages, and disadvantages of each researched work.