Detecting trending topics captivating circular economy: a bibliometric-based approach

Abstract

Circular economy is a modern and innovative business model based on the regenerative utilisation of outputs from one process as inputs to another. Since it has many practical implementations, a few distinguished terms essentially mean the same – sharing resources is novel value creation. This paper aims to examine the trend topics corresponding to a circular economy in scientific production. Supported by the available R Studio Bibliometrix package for bibliometric analysis, the study’s results, based on publications from three different groups of countries, suggest that a few distinguished terms are the most frequently used in all publications observed. Moreover, the study concludes that the three groups' immense difference in scientific contribution is notable.