The paper investigates collaborative and semantic patterns that emerged between 1967 and 2013 about the theme of container shipping based on a corpus of 294 articles published in scholarly journals within the fields of transportation, supply chain, economics, geography, regional planning and development, and operations research. An analysis based on the co-occurrence of title words allows identifying dominant sub-themes and their evolution. Main results point to the gradual diversification of container shipping research, from the dominance of economics towards a more trans-disciplinary set of approaches which integrate port-related activities and multimodal networks. Yet, disciplinary specialization remains strong up to nowadays so that container shipping research remains rather fragmented. While co-authorships have increased over time, they remain polarized by few, weakly connected research battalions. Our study suggests that research on container shipping would benefit from more frequent contacts between such communities to foster in-depth cross-disciplinary studies and fundamental cooperation.
The paper investigates collaborative and semantic patterns that emerged between 1967 and 2013 about the theme of container shipping based on a corpus of 294 articles published in scholarly journals within the fields of transportation, supply chain, economics, geography, regional planning and development, and operations research. An analysis based on the co-occurrence of title words allows identifying dominant sub-themes and their evolution. Main results point to the gradual diversification of container shipping research, from the dominance of economics towards a more trans-disciplinary set of approaches which integrate port-related activities and multimodal networks. Yet, disciplinary specialization remains strong up to nowadays so that container shipping research remains rather fragmented. While co-authorships have increased over time, they remain polarized by few, weakly connected research battalions. Our study suggests that research on container shipping would benefit from more frequent contacts between such communities to foster in-depth cross-disciplinary studies and fundamental cooperation.
Titre
en
Across the waves: a bibliometric analysis of container shipping research since the 1960s
Auteur(s)
Yui-Yip Lau1, 2
, César Ducruet3, 4
, Adolf K. Y. Ng2
, Xiaowen Fu2, 5
1
Division of Business
( 267817 )
- Hong Kong Community College, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Chine
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University [Hong Kong] ( 61400 )
2
University of Manitoba [Winnipeg]
( 300724 )
- Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada R3T 2N2
- Canada
3
GC (UMR_8504) -
Géographie-cités
( 43649 )
- 13 rue du Four - 75006 Paris
- France
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne ( 7550 )
;
Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 UMR_8504 ( 300301 )
;
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR_8504 ( 441569 )
4
EconomiX -
EconomiX
( 2564 )
- Bâtiment G
200 Avenue de la République
92001 NANTERRE CEDEX
- France
Université Paris Nanterre UMR7235 ( 116205 )
;
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR7235 ( 441569 )
5
ITLS -
Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies
( 56122 )
- The University of Sydney, Newtown Campus, 144 Burren Street, Newtown, NSW 2042, Australia
- Australie
The University of Sydney ( 374701 )
Numéro
6
Volume
44
Date de publication électronique
2017-04-11
Audience
Internationale
Comité de lecture
Oui
Page/Identifiant
667-684
Date de publication
2017
Langue du document
Anglais
Nom de la revue
Maritime Policy and Management
(ISSN : 0308-8839, ISSN électronique : 1464-5254)
Publié par Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Revue non référencée dans Sherpa-Romeo
Vulgarisation
Non
Projet(s) Européen(s)
WORLD SEASTEMS
- Globalization, regionalization, urbanization: an analysis of the worldwide maritime network since the early 18th century
Numéro CORDIS :
313847
Domaine(s)
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Géographie
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sciences de l'information et de la communication
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances
Mots-clés
en
ACL, PARIS team, research trends, container shipping, semantics analysis, Co-occurrence network, collaboration network
Yui-Yip Lau, César Ducruet, Adolf K. Y. Ng, Xiaowen Fu. Across the waves: a bibliometric analysis of container shipping research since the 1960s. Maritime Policy and Management, 2017, 44 (6), pp.667-684. ⟨10.1080/03088839.2017.1311425⟩. ⟨halshs-01619362⟩