Blockchain Technology Applied to Supply Chain Management: A Systems’ Analysis

Table 5

Four major institutional cooperative networks.

SN	Core institution	Other institutions	CRF	CRT
1	Khalifa University of Science Technology	Chinese Academy of Sciences; Wuhan University; King Saud University; Jeju National University; Beijing university of posts telecommunications, etc.	Intelligent manufacturing industry [31–34]; medical industry [35–38]; agricultural food industry [39–42]; financial industry [43–45]	Fusion of blockchain and IOT technology [46–50]
2	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	University of Hong Kong; Hanken School of Economics; Guangdong University of Technology; University of Alabama system	Transportation and logistics industry [51–55]; circular economy industry [56–58]	Architecture design for blockchain implementation [59–63]
3	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Tongji University Nanjing University of Science Technology; Northeastern University China	E-commerce field [64–66]; supply chain finance field [67–69]	Blockchain technology applied to industry 4.0 [70, 71]; blockchain technology solving the COVID-19 pandemic problem [72, 73]
4	Shenzhen University	South China University of Technology; National Taiwan University	Medical industry [74–76]	Green supply chain [77, 78]; government regulation [79, 80]

SN, serial number; CRF, common research field; CRT, common research topics.