The Development of Cold Chain Management Research through a Bibliometric Approach Using Vosviewer

Abstract

This article reviews the development of cold chain management research through a bibliometric approach. Full comprehension of the management of the cold chain in Indonesia is especially important because Indonesia is one of the countries where two-thirds of it is an ocean area. In Indonesia's sea, there are many fishery resources with high export value. On the other hand, Indonesia's territory is so vast, making shipping from island to island will take quite a long time. This will have an impact on product quality if the management of the cold chain is not considered, especially for products that are easily damaged by changes in temperature. The freshness and safety of the product when it is received by the consumer can be maximized with the existence of cold chain management. The article data was retrieved from the Google Scholar database using the Publish-or-Perish Reference Manager application. The data results were obtained in the form of article mapping data per theme that the researcher has determined. Furthermore, the mapping data is processed using computational mapping analysis, namely VOSviewer. To facilitate the process of searching for articles, researchers must determine the terms to be studied first. The term used in the search using this publish or perish application is “Cold Chain Management” which resulted in 272 articles deemed relevant for the last 10 years (2012 to 2022). After doing research, the title "cold chain management" can be separated into 3 terms: management, cold chain, and cold chain management. The analysis shows that the term “cold chain management” is associated with 83 links, with an overall link strength of 128. Over the last decade, it is known that there have been ups and downs in the number of research publications on cold chain management. From 2012-2014 publications of the article moved horizontally and experienced a slight increase in 2015 to 27 journal publications. In 2016 the number of published journals decreased to 23 articles. On the other hand, from 2017 to 2018, the number of publications increased quite a lot to 37 articles. However, from 2019 to 2022 the number of publication was declined, and there were only 6 journals published in 2022. After this study, hopefully, there will be more research on cold chain management.