Research Progress in Life Cycle Assessment for Sustainable Manufacturing Industries: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Many tools for analysing the sustainability of manufacturing industries, such as life cycle assessment (LCA), have been created as the debate over sustainable manufacturing has grown. A bibliometric analysis is conducted for a scientific paper in Scopus databases on the subject of LCA, focusing on studies related to manufacturing industries from a sustainable point of view. This study compiled a portfolio of papers on LCA-based sustainable manufacturing industries. In the present study, a total of 133 publications are found from the Scopus database between the periods when LCA was added in the ISO series (1997) to 2020. The study was carried out using R studio and the Bibliometrix R package. The primary data for the present study is collected from the database of Scopus in BibTex format, after which is analysed in R studio for exploration using the command. The annual scientific production of Life cycle Sustainability Assessment papers is discovered, with a 13.39 % increase in article publication. According to the findings, developed countries produced the most publications compared to developing nations. When comparing a number of publications, India ranks fourth. According to the thematic analysis, the bulk of papers tried to examine manufacturing industries' environmental implications. However, other publications have combined LCA with additional methodologies to provide a more comprehensive analysis that considers the social and economic pillars of sustainable manufacturing. The study also emphasises the importance of LCA in manufacturing process decision-making. There are numerous novel contributions, such as categorising published data using scientific indexes and bibliometrics, describing the main research approaches, and highlighting future research opportunities to provide academics and practitioners with an overview of LCA implementation in the field of sustainable Manufacturing industries.