Table 2.

Review protocol

Filter typeDescription and GuidelinesResults
Inclusion CriteriaTopic: Articles focusing only on CLSCs
Language: Limited to English
Timeframe: All accepted articles (available online) up to January 2023
Article type: Only accepted articles in peer-reviewed journals available online
70 papers
Exclusion criteriaTopic: Articles focusing on resilience and sustainability but not on CLSCs.
Articles focus on sustainability but leaving out any one of social, environmental or social sustainability.
Language: Articles in Chinese or other languages
Article type: Conference proceedings, book chapters, books and reports
55
KeywordsDepended on Boolean operators AND and OR. “Sustainable” AND “closed loop supply chain” OR “resilient” AND “closed loop supply chain” OR “resilient and sustainable” AND “closed loop supply chain”55
Material validation1. Manual analysis of abstract.
2. Reading all papers left in the sample
55
Snowball approachForward searches mostly from recommended articles on Elsevier.
Backward searches mostly in references to selected articles
56
Final sample size 56

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