A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS ON LIFE CYCLE ENGINEERING: CONCEPTS AND FUTURE TRENDS

Life Cycle Engineering emerged as a Life Cycle Thinking approach for theearly stages of a product or technology, and can combine environmental, technoeconomic, technological, and even social aspects. In this study, a bibliometric reviewwas conducted to present the state-of-the-art of the concept and identify trends.Using the Scopus database and VOSViewer software, the most prolific authors andtheir collaborations, the three leading journals and their Brazilian qualis classification,and the key fields were analyzed. A brief conceptualization was provided, clarifyingthe possible points of LCE approach, demonstrating that it has been used as asustainability tool and can be applied for new sustainable products and technologies.