Track: Supply Chain Management

Abstract

Since its inception, the concept of a digital twin has been used in a broad range of fields, including product life cycle management, product development, manufacturing, logistics, and process control, to mention a few. As technology advances, physical objects and virtual worlds are being integrated and interconnected in a real-life context. However, the Supply Chain Digital Twin publishing is confined to a few topics. This study uses bibliometric analysis to graphically map scientific publications and research trends in the Digital Twin Supply Chain sector worldwide. The Scopus database was used to collect information for this study, and online analysis using the Scopus website and VOSViewer was used to demonstrate bibliometric network mapping. We use an article selection procedure starting with the searched keywords and year constraints and then exporting the database to RIS and CSV format files. We retrieved 179 scientific publications published between 2017 and 2021 from the Scopus database over the last five years. We also use VOSViewer to map the network. According to the database, researchers in Germany had the most published papers indexed by Scopus among the most prolific authors (N=30), with the United States coming second (N=27) and the United Kingdom third (N=16). This study recommends combining the research subjects of IoT for Sustainability in Agriculture: Digital Twin Concept, Impact, Disruption, Internet, abbreviated as DTCIDI research themes.