Bibliometric analysis of humanitarian supply chains (HSC) towards customisation in resource-constrained constructs

This data pertains to bibliometric analysis of 4,780 documents indexed in Scopus (2015–2025). This facilitates triangulated methods, including co-word analysis, co-citation mapping, and bibliographic coupling, to map the intellectual, thematic, and collaborative landscape of digital innovation in humanitarian logistics. The corpus has been cleaned on OpenRefine using the Metaphone 3 algorithm.

Corpus selection flowed as follows:

Initial: 7948

Date limitation: 6963 (2015-2025)

Subject area: Social science, environmental sciences, decision sciences, business management and accounting (economics, econometrics, and finance), multidisciplinary: 3609

Engineering and computer science. 6105

Document type: Article, conference paper: 5066

Language English: 4909

Cleaned after duplicated removed: 4780

The final search string for this set is as follows:

TITLE-ABS-KEY ("humanitarian supply chain" OR "human supply chain" OR "disaster management" OR "crisis management" OR "emergency management" OR "emergency logistics" OR "humanitarian logistics" OR "relief operations" OR "aid distribution" OR "humanitarian response" OR "disaster response" OR "post-disaster recovery" OR "disaster relief" OR "emergency relief" OR "crisis relief") AND ("emerging technology" OR "digital technology" OR "digital transformation" OR "technology adoption" OR "Industry 4.0" OR "Fourth Industrial Revolution" OR "4IR" OR "AI" OR "artificial intelligence" OR "blockchain" OR "IoT" OR "internet of things" OR "machine learning" OR "robotics" OR "automation" OR "smart systems" OR "data analytics" OR "big data" AND PUBYEAR > 2015 AND PUBYEAR < 2026) AND (LIMIT-TO (SUBJAREA, "SOCI") OR LIMIT-TO (SUBJAREA , "ENVI") OR LIMIT-TO (SUBJAREA , "DECI") OR LIMIT-TO (SUBJAREA , "BUSI") OR LIMIT-TO (SUBJAREA , "ECON") OR LIMIT-TO (SUBJAREA , "MULT") OR LIMIT-TO (SUBJAREA , "COMP") OR LIMIT-TO (SUBJAREA , "ENGI")) AND (LIMIT-TO (DOCTYPE , "ar") OR LIMIT-TO (DOCTYPE , "cp")) AND (LIMIT-TO (LANGUAGE , "English")).