Figure 10: Recent publications regarding UCCs, Web of Science
Publication dates offered further evidence that this was a newly emergent area of publication, with around 51% of all articles published after 2016 as shown in Figure 3 above. These preliminary searches were followed up by a focused series of searches.
A.1.2.3 Focused Searches
Focused searching followed using keywords and search terms developed further from the core research questions and the top-level scoping. This subset of the literature was then examined against an inclusion/exclusion list. These focused searches formed the body of work for the next step, which was a narrative review of the key literature. These focused searches cover the timespan 1970-2022. This approach was applied to each of the topics identified above, as shown in Table 1 below:
Review topicExplicit WOS search termsWOS Results $ ^{{8}} $TRIMI $ ^{{9}} $ ResultsGS
consolidation/distribution centre/center(((AB=("urban consolidation centre")) OR AB=("urban distribution centre")) OR ALL=("urban60161,910 $ ^{{*}} $
8 WOS searches were always TOPIC searches
9 EU funded research projects