This paper aims to present the key research trends in the healthcare supply chain,critically analyze the research characteristics of these areas, define the main elements of thehealthcare supply chain and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the healthcare supply chain,and present responses to overcome these impacts based on literature review.

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 A systematic literature review is conducted on the healthcaresupply chain research papers covering ten years of research (2010-2020) in peer-reviewed journalspublished in English. To achieve this goal, we performed a critical analysis of key research trendsin the healthcare supply chain, assessing the significant characteristics of the articles, such as issue,solution, research method, outcomes, and concerns,

We found 13 key research trends in the healthcare supply chain; healthcare supply chaincollaboration, performance measurement, and model/framework were the most significant areasaddressed in the papers reviewed in this study. The reviewed studies did not investigate therelationship between different entities in the healthcare supply chain in detail, and most hadlimitations in generalizing the findings to diverse companies/countries. The primary outcomes ofthe assessed studies were cost reductions and performance enhancements.

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The analysis of the healthcare supply chain studies in diverse research trendsresulted in insights that help understand concerns in different trends and outcomes of the proposedsolutions. In addition, this study addressed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on thehealthcare supply chain and the responses to overcome them in particular.

In this review article, we aim to describe recent advances in compressive sensing-based data aggregation techniques in wireless sensor networks, including current research efforts, challenges, and research trends. Sparse and compressible signals are present in many applications of sensor networks, such as environmental monitoring and vehicle surveillance. Compressive sensing has many properties such as simplicity of sensing and compression operations, universality, and an acceptable decrease in the quality of signal reconstruction, which makes it attractive for use in sensor networks. Packet drops do not damage the network as much as other protocols, and only for each measurement that does not reach the sink will cause a slight decrease in the quality of signal reconstruction. We begin the discussion with a brief introduction to compressive sensing theory and then describe the use of this technique in wireless sensor networks. Finally, the research issues and challenges ahead are discussed to provide a perspective for future research

Along with the influence of the Internet and the dramatic advances in the use of information technology in businesses, a new concept has been introduced in the tourism literature called smart tourism destinations. Although studies have been conducted in this area in recent years, the research process is not clear due to the short time of introduction and development of this technology. In addition, the synthesis of knowledge has not been done in order to draw conclusions about the evolutionary nature of this issue and to develop its theories. This study used the paradigm funnel method to fill this gap and investigate the research. For this purpose, 105 articles were reviewed from 2000 to 2017, and after selecting articles, 34 articles were identified and classified. The findings indicate the focus of the articles is on the level of specific theories and the lack of articles in the field of ontology and basic hypotheses. This study will help researchers to better understand the conducted research process, to get acquainted with the concepts and components, and to identify the existing research gap.

In today's rapidly changing business environment, finding new customers is becoming increasingly difficult. As a result, companies are placing a strong emphasis on retaining their current customers. While there's a lot of research on customer loyalty in consumer-focused businesses (B2C), creating loyalty in business-to-business (B2B) settings is a unique challenge that needs a closer look. Therefore, the goal of this study is to understand how loyalty works in B2B companies and how it's evolving.
 
To examine the advancements and developments within the domain of loyalty in B2B business models, articles on the Web of Science website were analyzed over 28 years (from 1994 to 2022) using scientometric methods and Sitespace software.
 
Research in the field of B2B loyalty has shown a growing trend. However, between 2011 and 2014, there was a decrease in research in this area. Subsequently, there has been an upward trend in research. Analysis of the top 10 countries in B2B loyalty indicates that the United States is now the leader in the number and breadth of loyalty research. Notably, countries like Taiwan and Spain are also actively engaged and flourishing in this field. A comprehensive review of B2B loyalty, encompassing its foundations, influential works, and intellectual connections between these works, revealed the key insights. The analysis unveiled highly cited articles, key authors, important keywords, intellectual milestones, and emerging research trends in the B2B loyalty domain. Overall, since 2014, B2B loyalty research has garnered increasing attention, with a significant rise in the number of articles published annually. The field has transitioned from a conceptualization stage to a cognitive psychology stage. Despite this growth, B2B loyalty research has not reached full maturity, necessitating further exploration of theoretical and methodological issues. New B2B loyalty research has introduced novel perspectives, such as attitudinal and behavioral angles, branding, service quality, and word-of-mouth communication. This diversification marks a new direction in B2B loyalty research. Additionally, the findings reveal that B2B researchers often use B2C theories as criteria for evaluating B2B loyalty. While B2B markets traditionally rely on high volume and cost-benefit analysis, loyalty in these markets also exhibits psychological aspects, indicating a new avenue for research. These results contribute to a deeper understanding of the boundaries of B2B loyalty research, providing valuable scientific information for researchers to guide the development of future studies.
 
This research serves as a guide for future B2B loyalty studies, helping researchers identify directions and avoid duplicative efforts. Organizations can benefit from the concepts highlighted in this research, aligning their strategies to foster customer loyalty in the provision of products and services.

The ever-increasing development of digital technologies has brought about significant changes in business performance. The increase in the number of published articles on this topic also shows the special attention of researchers in information systems, business management, and innovation. While digital changes are inevitable in the digital age, previous research has been limited to a specific domain. This research aims to identify key themes and macro topics through a systematic review of 201 articles from 2018 to 2023 through two high-quality databases (Scopus and Web of Science). First, using thematic analysis, the main themes are identified, and their relationships are investigated from the perspective of digital technology development. In the next step, by using topic modeling (Latent Dirichlet Allocation), the major domains of the impact of these technologies will be investigated, and future research trends will be identified using the scientometric approach. The innovation of this research is designing a thematic network through in-depth text review and text mining analysis, which leads to a better understanding of the relationships between critical components. In the last step, recommendations are given to researchers and managers to conduct future research.

Coordination among different supply chain components and the establishment of centralized decision-making capabilities, significantly impact the performance of the supply chain and consequently the organization's performance. Nowadays, the high volume of information that being generated in these sectors and flowing among them, has confronted supply chain management with various Evolutions. Therefore, considering the high importance of information flow for achieving coordination in the supply chain, this research aims to provide a comprehensive review of existing studies on information flow in the supply chain and examines the hot topics and research trends in this field. To achieve the research objectives, relevant keywords related to the research topic were searched in the Web of Science database in the title, abstract, and keywords sections. From the obtained article collection, after stages of refinement, 2357 articles were selected. The selected article collection includes articles published in a 10-year period (2013-2023) and in English. For the analysis, R, VOSviewer and Excel softwares were used. Based on the obtained results, the number of articles with an annual average growth rate of 10.97 is increasing, that reflects researchers' attention to the importance of information flow in the supply chain. Results show that, information flow influences various aspects of the supply chain, including agility, resilience, green supply chain, risk management, logistics, reverse logistics, inventory management, closed-loop supply chain, and sustainability. Additionally, information flow can contribute to trust, collaboration, coordination, visibility, traceability, competitive advantage, and innovation, and also impacting the supply chain performance in various dimensions (financial, operational, and corporate). Among the keywords, the most frequent ones have been information sharing, supply chain management, supply chain, and blockchain. In this set of keywords, the newest keywords that have been introduced in research topics from 2018 to 2020 can be mentioned as follows: blockchain technology, Industry 4.0, cyber security, machine learning, digital transformation, smart contracts, artificial intelligence, circular economy and COVID-19. These topics are new research areas that will continue to be interesting area to the scientific community in the coming years. The most frequent new topic that has received attention since 2021 is “digitalization/digital supply chain”, that is an emerging concept in supply chain management and one of the achievements of Industry 4.0. Digital supply chain includes managing supply chain processes with a wide range of new technologies (big data, blockchain, internet of things, cloud computing, etc.). Therefore, recent research trends emphasize the importance of focusing on information flow in achieving new technologies in the supply chain and moving towards a digital supply chain.

Consumer experience is one of the most important influencing factors in the formation of people's attitudes about goods and services. Today, traditional marketing methods no longer respond to the changing characteristics, needs and demands of consumers. Therefore, managers and marketers are looking for new and effective methods to attract and maintain demand in today's competitive and complex markets, and experiential marketing is one of these methods. One of the important fields in marketing, which can play a special role in the development of tourism, is experiential marketing. The purpose of this research is to identify the development and progress made in the field of experiential marketing in tourism. From the point of view of the research method, this research is a longitudinal, descriptive and library-type research. The method of collecting information was in the form of documents. The method of data analysis in this research is scientometrics and social network analysis. Social networks are a network of people, groups and connections between them. Individuals and member groups form the nodes, and the dependencies between these individuals such as friendship, kinship, business, common interests, etc., form the edges between the nodes. In social networks based on scientometrics, the nodes represent the author, magazine, country, keywords, etc., and the links show the citation or correlation between the nodes. In order to achieve this, the articles available in the O Science website were retrieved in a 28-year period (1994 to 2022) and were analyzed using scientometric methods and using Sitespace software. This software is based on Java and is a program that is used to analyze and depict trends and patterns in scientific articles. This software program is capable of understanding and interpreting historical patterns and trends, identifying new topics that have grown rapidly in scientific sources, finding reference points and network analysis.The overall results show that since 2014, empirical marketing research in tourism has attracted increasing attention from researchers, as the number of articles published per year has increased significantly. The field of experiential marketing in tourism has now evolved from the conceptualization stage to the implementation stage. Although research on experiential marketing in tourism has grown significantly, it has not yet reached its full maturity, as both theoretical and practical issues and methodological issues need further investigation. Most importantly, the literature regarding the identification of different constructs for measuring experience in the tourism industry is limited. Researchers sometimes use constructs that are suitable for measuring customer satisfaction and service quality to measure the tourist experience. But this survey showed that there is a fundamental difference between the factors measuring service and experience. In order to identify and develop an experience, it is necessary to know how the tourist experience can be measured to capture all aspects of the experience in the tourism industry. A lack of conceptual interaction across studies in our review was also observed. Our analysis identified few articles that linked the tourism experience with theories from disciplines such as psychology, environmental aspects, sociology, branding, etc. Of course, there are exceptions. Research has used several theories to explain the tourism experience. Management research has called for the combination of several theoretical lenses to explain the phenomenon of experience in tourism. In the field of tourism experiences, this gap can be addressed, for example, by integrating existing frameworks to better understand the prerequisites, dimensions and outputs of experiences in tourism. Another aspect of the experience in the tourism industry that needs attention, and has become a hot keyword in recent years, is the interaction of the social environment in the development and presentation of the experience. For example, how the group experience affects the tourist's decision has not been considered. While there is some literature on the interaction between the service provider and the consumer, interactions between tourists are rarely examined in the existing literature. Considering the rapid increase in tourist interaction through social networks, the most contemporary research area can be how companies look at creating and maintaining customer relationships between them. Another important issue that is observed in the research, but little literature was found in this area, is the impact of technology-based systems on the tourist experience. Technologies such as augmented reality have formed a cluster in research, but research in the field of technology is thin. Given that the technology-based environment will become very popular in the tourism sector of emerging as well as developed countries, insight into how and to what extent technology-based systems affect the overall tourist experience is crucial, for example, how the choice of tourist destination based on online information can be investigated as it affects the experience of tourists. These results will help researchers to understand the boundaries of the research conducted in the application of experiential marketing in tourism and obtain valuable scientific information through which they can determine the development process of their future research.

Saffron, is one of the most popular traditional herbs and the most expensive spice in the world. Global production of saffron is estimated at 418 tons per year on 121,338 hectares. This spice is beneficial for human health due to having three main bioactive compounds: crocin, picrocrocin and safranal. In recent years, in addition to numerous researches on various medicinal effects, due to the decrease in its production, researches on factors affecting saffron production have increased. Consequently, conducting a bibliometric analysis of publications has the potential to provide insights into current areas of interest and potential trends for future research. The purpose of this research is to reveal the research topics of the saffron field in the WoS database during the period from 2000 to 2023, which was done with the benefit of scientometric techniques. The current research community includes 3936 articles. Data analysis and drawing of the intellectual structure of knowledge was also done using R Biblioshiny and VOSviewer software. Acta Horticulturae was the most popular journal for saffron research with 216 published articles, while the American Chemical Society's Chemistry journal was the most cited. The scientometric analysis identified the most productive countries and Iran was at the top with 1015 single country publications (SCP), 155 multi-country publications (MCP) and the highest frequency of 0.297. According to the current research, the research topics related to saffron that have recently become more advanced and can be used as a basis for the authors' research include antioxidant, double-blind testing (medical), oxidative stress, inflammation, type 2 diabetes, major depressive disorder, alpha amylase, are fatty acids. This study highlights the link between collaborations and scientific developments and trends in scientific collaboration and serves as a model to show emerging research directions in the field of saffron.

Current study have been attended to identification and description of trends impacting the future of Imam Sadiq university. These trends have seen in three levels: 1. Global higher education trends 2. Specific trends of Iran higher education 3. Specific trends of Imam Sadiq university. Exploratory mixed method is its research method. After document review the experts interviewed for identification of global and national trends. Then¡ identified trends validated with design and distribution of a questionnaire and 25 trends accepted in these two levels. On the other hand with other set of questionnaires¡ Specific trends of Imam Sadiq university identified. Then Specific trends of this university validated with design and distribution of the second questionnaire. Finally¡ accepted trends including 20 global trends and 5 national trends and 8 Imam Sadiq university trends classified in 6 categories. Also brief descriptions about trends presented for creating common sense and preventing possible misunderstandings.