The intellectual structure of the waste management field
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The intellectual structure of the waste management field Majdi Argoubi1 · Haifa Jammeli2,3 · Hatem Masri4 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Waste management is an important issue in the field of green logistics. It has consequently drawn the attention of the scientific community and has been extensively investigated over the past few years. Through an analysis of the existing waste management literature, we attempt in this paper to better understand past developments in this area as well as emerging trends and recent developments. Emphasis will be put mainly on Operations Research and Management Science techniques when dealing with waste management problems. To reach this target, we follow bibliometric-based methods, specifically Co-citation Analysis, Betweenness Centrality and Burst Detection combined with network visualization. After identifying the research papers published between 1990 and 2018 within the Thomson Reuters Web of Science database, a Co-citation network has been constructed. We propose an algorithm for modularity-based clustering in small networks that iteratively solves a sequence of Mixed Integer Non-linear Programming problems to maximize the modularity therefore providing a non-overlapping partition of the network. A display of the principal research areas and landmark articles that shape the intellectual structure of the waste management problems during the last 30 years is reported. Keywords Waste management · Intellectual structure · Optimization · Heuristics · Co-citation analysis · Literature mapping
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Hatem Masri [email protected] Majdi Argoubi [email protected] Haifa Jammeli [email protected]
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University of Sousse, Rue Abdlaaziz El Behi, Sousse, Tunisia
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University of Tunis, Rue de la liberte, Le Bardo, Tunisia
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HF-LAB, HIGHFI, Paris, France
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University of Bahrain, P.O. Box 32038, Sakhir, Kingdom of Bahrain
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Annals of Operations Research
1 Introduction Waste management (WM) was prominently defined by The Waste Framework Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament, as: the collection, transport, recovery and disposal of waste, including the supervision of such operations and the after-care of disposal sites, and including actions taken as a dealer or broker (Union 2008). Strategically clear and categorical, this definition has attracted wide attention and interest, especially from Operations Research and Management Science (OR-MS) researchers. Within the framework of OR-MS techniques related to the WM field, it is noteworthy that there is a need to investigate this body of literature. Over the past decades, due to rapid urbanization, WM tasks have become more and more complex, a fact that has led to the emergence of different optimization techniques and heuristic methodologies. These techniques and methodologies have led to many research papers with different conceptualizations, which hamper the comparison and replication of findings. Over the last few decades, quantitative bibliometric techniques have been
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