Dumlupınar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, sa.67, ss.159-175, 2021 (Hakemli Dergi)
The increased rate of technological advancements with Globalization changed, and still changing the industry structures, corporates, the way of working. In recent years Industry 4.0 became one of the prominent subjects. Therefore various corporations and research companies have contributed greatly to the literature of Industry 4.0. In order to find out the fields, countries and authors’ contribution to the subject in terms of conducting studies and their influence on other studies, published studies for the last two decades are reviewed with the bibliometric analysis method. The types, key research subjects, the cross-subject relations and collaborations for 1084 document reviewed by the analysis are revealed. With a systematic map that will be created for Industry 4.0, the aim is to indicate the progress of published papers in graphics, to determine the current fields of interest regarding the subject and in turn to guide the potential future researches. Among these results, it is seen that Business and Management fields, and Engineering are the most prominent disciplines in terms of working on Industry 4.0. Germany has most publications and BRIC countries, such as China at the forefront, Brazil and Russia follow Germany closely.