Trends in Agricultural Industry Integration: A Systematic Literature Review bibliometric analysis

Abstract

Industry integration has formed an inevitable trend of industrial upgrading and transformation to extend value chain. To better understand the current research situation and the trends of agricultural industry integration. This paper adopts a two stages systematic review methodology integrated with bibliometric analysis , CiteSpace visualization tool and inductive analysis.The fist stage of bibliometric analysis is to analyze the the disciplinary distribution of 14305 papers publications which identified from the Web of Science Core Collection(from year 2005-2021) under the keywords "industry integration". The review provides investigation that the research on industrial integration is increasing year by year, and the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) behavior Technology process innovation activities Application of the Internet of Things (ICTs) and Ecological maintenance in the process is the top 4 research hotpot, However, there are relatively few studies on the integration of agriculture and rural industries. For the second stage of bibliometric analysis is carried out ainductive analysis of 345 papers(from year2005-2021) ,The systematic literature review presents insights not fully captured or assessed by other previous agricultural industry integration reviews,and analyzes the research Journal Articles. Identify research gaps and propose five possible directions for future research. The findings provide a mind map for further investigation in this field.