Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is one of the most influential technologies of the twenty-first century. Today,
RFID technology is being applied in a wide array of disciplines in science research and industrial projects. The
significant impact of RFID is clearly visible by the rate of academic publications in the last few years. This article
surveys the literature to evaluate the trend of RFID technology development based on academic publications from
2001 to 2014. Both bibliometric and content analyses are applied to examine this topic in SCI-Index and SSCI-Index
documents. Based on the bibliometric technique, all 5,159 existing RFID documents are investigated and several
important factors are reviewed, including contributions by country, organizations, funding agencies, journal title,
authors, research area and Web of Science Category. Moreover, content analysis is applied to the top 100 most cited
documents and based on their contents, these top 100 documents are classified into four different categories with
each category divided in several sub-categories. This research aims to identify the best source of the most cited
RFID papers and to provide a comprehensive road map for the future research and development in the field of RFID
technology in both academic and industrial settings. Six key findings from this review are (1) the experimental
method is the most popular research methodology, (2) RFID research has been a hot area of investigation but will
branch out into related subset areas, (3) South East Asia is positioned to dominate this research space, (4) the focus
of research up to now has been on technical issues rather than business and management issues, (5) research on
RFID application domains will spread beyond supply chain and health care to a number of different areas, and (6)
more research will be related to policy issues such as security and privacy
Nader
Ale Ebrahim holds a PhD degree in Technology Management from the Department of
Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of
Malaya. He holds a Master of Science in the Mechanical Engineering from the
University of Tehran with distinguished honors. He also has over 19 years of
experience in the establishment of the R&D departments in different
companies, heading projects as the project director and project coordinator and
implementing knowledge based system in the R&D department. His current
research interest focuses on E-skills, Research Tools, Bibliometrics and
managing virtual NPD teams in SMEs’ R&D centers. His papers/articles have
published and presented in the several journals and conferences.
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