TITLE:
International Trade in Manufacturing: A Review and Bibliometric Analysis (1996-2020)
AUTHORS:
Jing Jiang, Linchi Qu
KEYWORDS:
Manufacturing, International Trade, Bibliometrics, Evolution, Hotspot, Emerging Trends
JOURNAL NAME:
Modern Economy,
Vol.11 No.5,
May
28,
2020
ABSTRACT: Manufacturing is the engine of the world economy.
Under complicated and volatile international situation, it is worth thinking
about where the world manufacturing trade pattern will go. Therefore, it is
necessary to sort out the trade-related research of manufacturing trade. This
paper systematically reviewed the research on international trade in
manufacturing through qualitative and quantitative research methods, which made
up for the deficiency of the existing reviews in this field. This paper used
CiteSpace software to carry out a bibliometric analysis of 1027 documents from
the Web of Science (1996-2020). The
study found that authoritative journals in this field are concentrated in the
economic field and the quality of publications is high. The cooperation between
scholars is not close, and papers are mainly distributed in North America,
Europe, Asia and Australia. The research focus has shifted from international
trade, productivity and impact to performance, China, innovation, etc.
International trade in manufacturing was subdivided into eight major research
fields. According to the burst-detection, national trade markups, input and
output analysis, improvement of quality, and export market will become future
development trends.