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Tracing the evolution of green logistics: A latent dirichlet allocation based topic modeling technology and roadmapping

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  • Ruijundi Ma
  • Yong Jin Kim

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Green logistics (GL) is the main development trend of modern logistics. The analysis of green logistics topics and their evolution is helpful in grasping its development trend and doing research facing the international frontier. Focusing on the hot topics and evolution process of green logistics, this paper analyzes from four aspects: firstly, this study divides the green logistics development progress into three stages based on life cycle theory, which are the emerging stage (1993–2003), slow growth stage (2004–2014) and rapid growth stage (2015–2021). Then, based on latent dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic model, this study summarizes and confirms related words and meaning of each topic in different stages. Furthermore, this study calculates the text similarity in each development stage of green logistics and analyzes the trend of hot topics in green logistics. Finally, this paper visualizes the development roadmap of green logistics and explores the progression among three stages. There are 4, 5, and 7 topics defined respectively in three development stages. The revolution of green logistics is analyzed, and the results show that "model and management on sustainable development of GL", "related issues and potential threats of GL", and "optimization analysis of low-carbon vehicle routing and time" are the primary development trends of green logistics. This study fills the gap in considering the evolution process of green logistics through topic modeling and roadmapping method. It provides a particular theoretical significance for the green and sustainable development of logistics.

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  • Ruijundi Ma & Yong Jin Kim, 2023. "Tracing the evolution of green logistics: A latent dirichlet allocation based topic modeling technology and roadmapping," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(8), pages 1-20, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0290074
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0290074
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