Fig. 1.
Keyword clusters in the publications on the blockchain in the agri-food supply chain
| Cluster | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keywords | adoption, agri-food, by-products, challenges, circular economy, digital technologies, digitalisation, distributed ledger, drivers, food waste, implementation, industry 4, innovation, knowledge, logistics, management, operations, opportunities, provenance, quality, supply-chain, sustainability, systems, waste | architecture, artificial intelligence, authentication, barriers, big data, big data analytics, food-supply chain, future, industry 4.0, internet, internet of things, internet of things, iot, precision agriculture, privacy, RFID, security, smart agriculture, supply chains, technologies, things | adulteration, benefits, chain, classification, distributed ledger technology, food chain, food fraud food safety, food supply chains, fraud, machine learning, products, strategies, system, systematic literature review, technology adoption, traceability, traceability system, transparency | agri-food supply chain, bibliometric analysis, blockchain technology, COVID-19, design, digitalisation, food security, framework, impact, industry, information-technology, integration, model, performance, resilience, supply chain management, supply chain resilience | blockchain, business, ethereum, food industry, food supply chain, food traceability, hyperledger fabric, impacts, ipfs, smart contract, smart contracts, supply chain, trust | agri-food industry, agriculture, consumers, demand, farmers, food, information, issues, safety, strategy, technology, trends |
| #items | 25 | 21 | 19 | 17 | 13 | 12 |
Thematic classification of the keywords
| Category | Keywords | Overarching categories |
|---|---|---|
| Technology | blockchain technology, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, artificial intelligence, big data, big data analytics, machine learning, internet, internet of things, internet of things (IoT), IoT, RFID, smart contracts, smart contracts, digital technologies, digitalisation, digitalisation, IPFS, ethereum, hyperledger fabric, architecture, systems, system | Themes resulting from the topic |
| Agri-Food industry | agri-food, agri-food supply chain, agri-food industry, agriculture, precision agriculture, smart agriculture, food industry, food fraud, food safety, food security, food waste, food, food industry, food fraud, farmers | |
| Supply chain | supply chain, supply chains, supply chain management, food supply chains, logistics, operations, supply chain resilience, resilience, chain, food supply chain, food-supply chain, food chain, food-supply chain, food traceability, provenance, traceability, traceability system, transparency | |
| Trends | industry 4, industry 4.0, circular economy, sustainability, waste, by-products | Impact of the current events |
| COVID-19 | covid-19 | |
| Economic concepts | business, benefits, opportunities, challenges, drivers, barriers, adoption, technology adoption, implementation, impact, impacts, security, privacy, authentication, trust, fraud, adulteration | Varied concepts |
| General themes | system, systems, architecture, future, issues, information, quality, strategies, strategy, framework, model, classification, future, trends, performance, integration, design, management, products, knowledge, information, provenance, innovation, consumers, demand, industry | |
| Methods | systematic literature review, bibliometric analysis | |