Transparency of sustainability disclosure in agri-food value chain management: Mapping the scientific landscape

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Sustainability transparency in agri-food value chains is crucial for fostering accountability, enhancing consumer trust, facilitating compliance with regulatory standards, and ultimately contributing to the resilience and sustainability of food systems in the face of social, environmental, and economic challenges. This paper aims to conduct bibliometric mapping and a systematic review of the scientific landscape concerning transparency of sustainability disclosure in agri-food value chains by identifying the key transparency dimensions and relevant research gaps. An analysis of 841 Scopus-indexed publications, utilizing Scopus tools, SciVal, VOS Viewer, and Biblioshiny software, yields insights into source and author mapping from 2000 to 2022. Bibliometric analysis underlines the increase in research interests in transparency of sustainability disclosure in agri-food value chains after Sustainable Development Goals adoption and the COVID-19 pandemic, following upwards trend, especially in the UK, India, and the USA. The most influential topic clusters are supply chain, environmentally preferable purchasing, and green practices, as well as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Internet of Things with the strongest co-occurrences between transparency (as the most recent notion in scientific landscape) and sustainability, traceability, supply chains, food supply, and blockchain. Systematic review highlights the evidence that transparency as boundary-spanning phenomenon is explored within the mono-country and chain researches, case studies and interviews methodologies from triple bottom line dimension mainly, only introducing governance criteria. Research gaps were identified regarding the role of transparency in different economic system and chains; sustainability conceptual framework used; transparency dimensions incorporation; technology-driven progress and other chain characteristics (traceability, resilience) intersection.

Acknowledgments
Inna Makarenko is gratefully acknowledging the support of MSCA4Ukraine project no. 1233713.

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    • Figure 1. The dynamic of the agri-food value chains sustainability transparency publications in 2000–2022 papers
    • Figure 2. Agri-food value chains sustainability transparency publications in 2000–2022: Top countries by institutions output, papers
    • Figure 3. Top 10% of the worldwide topic cluster by prominence on agri-food value chains sustainability transparency in 2017–2022
    • Figure 4. Relevance and growth rate of critical phrases in agri-food value chains sustainability transparency, 2017–2022
    • Figure 5. Keywords co-occurrence bibliometric map on agri-food value chains sustainability transparency publications in 2000–2022 (network mode)
    • Figure 6. Keywords co-occurrence bibliometric map on agri-food value chains sustainability transparency publications in 2000–2022 (chronology mode)
    • Figure 7. Сo-authorship bibliometric map on agri-food value chains sustainability transparency publications in 2000–2022
    • Figure 8. Authors co-citation bibliometric map on agri-food value chains sustainability transparency publications in 2000–2022
    • Figure 9. Author’s production in agri-food value chains sustainability transparency in 2000–2022
    • Figure 10. Three field plots (Sankey diagram) on authors (left), countries (middle) and keywords (right) on agri-food value chains sustainability transparency publications in 2000–2022
    • Figure 11. Three field plots (Sankey diagram) on authors (left), sources (middle) and keywords (right) on agri-food value chains sustainability transparency publications in 2000 – 2022
    • Figure 12. The most frequent keywords on agri-food value chains sustainability transparency publications in 2000–2022
    • Table 1. Recent papers with literature reviews in the areas of agri-food value chains transparency of sustainability disclosure in the agri-food value chain
    • Table 2. Defining searching strings in agri-food value chains sustainability transparency
    • Table 3. Top-10 journals by output in papers of agri-food value chains sustainability transparency search strings in 2002–2022
    • Table 4. Top-10 institutions by output in agri-food value chains sustainability transparency publications, 2017–2022
    • Table 5. The top-10 topics worldwide by prominence in agri-food value chains sustainability transparency publications in 2017–2022
    • Table 6. Methodological framework and datasets used for agri-food value chains sustainability transparency
    • Table 7. Sustainability transparency dimensions in the researched sample
    • Conceptualization
      Bodo Steiner, Inna Makarenko
    • Supervision
      Bodo Steiner
    • Validation
      Bodo Steiner
    • Writing – review & editing
      Bodo Steiner, Inna Makarenko
    • Data curation
      Inna Makarenko
    • Funding acquisition
      Inna Makarenko
    • Investigation
      Inna Makarenko, Kateryna Yuhai
    • Methodology
      Inna Makarenko
    • Project administration
      Inna Makarenko
    • Software
      Inna Makarenko, Kateryna Yuhai
    • Visualization
      Inna Makarenko
    • Writing – original draft
      Inna Makarenko, Kateryna Yuhai
    • Formal Analysis
      Kateryna Yuhai
    • Resources
      Kateryna Yuhai
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