Food Cold Chain Sustainability and Resiliency: Bibliometric Analysis and Emerging Trends

Open Access

Issue		BIO Web Conf. Volume 167, 2025 5^th International Conference on Smart and Innovative Agriculture (ICoSIA 2024)


Article Number		01004
Number of page(s)		12
Section		Agricultural Big Data Analysis
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/202516701004
Published online		19 March 2025

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