Chemosphere 296 (2022) 133968 Available online 15 February 2022 0045-6535/© 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Biofuel supply chain management in the circular economy transition: An inclusive knowledge map of the feld Meisam Ranjbari a, b, * , Zahra Shams Esfandabadi c, d , Alberto Ferraris e, f, g , Francesco Quatraro b, h , Mohammad Rehan i , Abdul-Sattar Nizami i, j , Vijai Kumar Gupta k, l , Su Shiung Lam a, m, * , Mortaza Aghbashlo a, n, * , Meisam Tabatabaei a, m, o, * a Henan Province Forest Resources Sustainable Development and High-value Utilization Engineering Research Center, School of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China b Department of Economics and Statistics “Cognetti de Martiis”, University of Turin, Turin, Italy c Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI), Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy d Energy Center Lab, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy e Department of Management, University of Turin, Turin, Italy f Laboratory for International and Regional Economics, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University, Russia g Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Rijeka, Croatia h BRICK, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Piazza Arbarello 8, 10123, Turin, Italy i Center of Excellence in Environmental Studies (CEES), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia j Sustainable Development Study Centre, Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan k Biorefning and Advanced Materials Research Center, Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), Kings Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JG, UK l Centre for Safe and Improved Foods, Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), Kings Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JG, UK m Higher Institution Centre of Excellence (HICoE), Institute of Tropical Aquaculture and Fisheries (AKUATROP), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030, Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia n Department of Mechanical Engineering of Agricultural Machinery, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran o Biofuel Research Team (BRTeam), Terengganu, Malaysia HIGHLIGHTS G R A P H I C A L ABSTRACT • The fndings revealed four major research hotspots in the BSC domain. • Algal biofuels have recently gained mo- mentum in the circular economy (CE) debate. • Integrative policy convergence is needed to link bioeconomy with the CE. • Future research avenues for BSC man- agement towards the CE transition were proposed. A R T I C L E INFO ABSTRACT * Corresponding authors. Henan Province Forest Resources Sustainable Development and High-value Utilization Engineering Research Center, School of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China. E-mail addresses: meisam.ranjbari@unito.it (M. Ranjbari), lam@umt.edu.my (S.S. Lam), maghbashlo@ut.ac.ir (M. Aghbashlo), meisam.tabatabaei@umt.edu.my, meisam_tab@yahoo.com (M. Tabatabaei). Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Chemosphere journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/chemosphere https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.133968 Received 30 December 2021; Received in revised form 8 February 2022; Accepted 11 February 2022