“…When conducting and publishing research, authors are always looking to achieve citations as it is an indicator of the impact of their research efforts (Castillo et al, 2007;Petersen et al, 2014;Herman, 2018;Massucci and Docampo, 2019). A topic that has been gaining more and more interest is the circular economy, which has been described from different areas and disciplines such as packaging (Castillo-Benancio et al, 2022;Silva and Pålsson, 2022), firm performance (Alvarez-Risco et al, 2021;Santa-Maria et al, 2022;Triguero et al, 2022), plastic management (Alvarez-Risco et al, 2020;Johansen et al, 2022;Rosenboom et al, 2022), foods (Del-Aguila-Arcentales et al, 2022;Durkin et al, 2022;Tamasiga et al, 2022;Zhang et al, 2022), supply chain Berlin et al, 2022;Khan and Abonyi, 2022;Lavelli and Beccalli, 2022), water (Kakwani and Kalbar, 2020;Chen et al, 2022;Khoury et al, 2023), recycling (Bongers and Casas, 2022;De-La-Torre-Jave et al, 2022;Islam and Iyer-Raniga, 2022;Neumann et al, 2022), and globalization (Ibn-Mohammed et al, 2021;Anderson-Seminario and Alvarez-Risco, 2022;Aublet-Cuvelier et al, 2022).…”