HEALTHCARE LOGISTICS:PAST,PRESENT AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

HEALTHCARE LOGISTICS: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS To retrieve documents on the topic of healthcare logistics, the dataset was compiled from two major scientific databases: Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus (Appendix A.1). Both databases are world-leading independent publishers with a powerful research engine that can track contents across disciplines and time from over 1.7 billion cited references from over 159 million records (29). These databases contain sufficient data to make them more suitable for bibliometric analysis (30). The search was conducted on March 12, 2025, using the “Topic” field in WoS and the “Title, Abstract, and Keywords” fields in Scopus. A comprehensive search query was designed to capture relevant publications related to healthcare logistics, using the following keywords: (“healthcare logistics” OR “healthcare supply chain” OR “healthcare distribution” OR “healthcare transportation” OR “healthcare procurement” OR “healthcare inventory management” OR “hospital logistics” OR “hospital supply chains” OR “medical supply chain management” OR “healthcare supply management” OR “hospital supply chain management”). This search string allowed the researcher to download and export the search results to CSV and Excel, and later the results were saved as- .bib file.