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title: "Supply chain disruption research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “supply chain disruption” appeared in 804 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (432), economics (148) and management (100)."
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# Papers on “supply chain disruption”

[Browse research topics](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/directory/page/6.md)

Research on “supply chain disruption” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/keywords.md

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “supply chain disruption” appeared in 804 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (432), economics (148) and management (100).
- 154 of them were published in 2025, against 18 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (9), Berlin School of Economics and Law (8) and Hefei University of Technology (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were Annals of Operations Research (44), International Journal of Production Economics (44) and Computers & Industrial Engineering (37).
- The most-cited of them is “Predicting the impacts of epidemic outbreaks on global supply chains: A simulation-based analysis on the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2) case” (Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review, 2020), with 2,278 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 12 | 19 | 14 | 28 | 34 | 75 | 65 | 62 | 68 | 55 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 23 | 22 | 41 | 34 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 19 | 20 | 13 | 12 | 13 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 19 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 3 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 18 | 23 | 17 | 44 | 61 | 119 | 121 | 117 | 154 | 130 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 44 |
| 2 | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 44 |
| 3 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 37 |
| 4 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 30 |
| 5 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 20 |
| 6 | [Operations Management Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-management-research.md) | 19 |
| 7 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 15 |
| 8 | [Supply Chain Analytics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/supply-chain-analytics.md) | 14 |
| 9 | [Omega](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/omega.md) | 13 |
| 10 | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 12 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 9 |
| 2 | Berlin School of Economics and Law | 8 |
| 3 | [Hefei University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hefei-university-of-technology.md) | 8 |
| 4 | O. P. Jindal Global University | 8 |
| 5 | [University of Tehran](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-tehran.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Beijing Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-jiaotong-university.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [The University of Melbourne](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-melbourne.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [University of Leeds](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-leeds.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [University of Southern Denmark](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-southern-denmark.md) | 6 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 164 |
| 2 | United States | 100 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 67 |
| 4 | Germany | 41 |
| 5 | India | 39 |
| 6 | France | 38 |
| 7 | Australia | 35 |
| 8 | Italy | 32 |
| 9 | Spain | 26 |
| 10 | Iran | 26 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [supply chain resilience](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/supply-chain-resilience.md) | 204 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 134 |
| 3 | supply chain sustainability | 23 |
| 4 | [Russian invasion of Ukraine](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/russian-invasion-of-ukraine.md) | 20 |
| 5 | [geopolitical risk](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/geopolitical-risk.md) | 19 |
| 6 | supply chain risk management | 19 |
| 7 | [inflation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/inflation.md) | 17 |
| 8 | [multi-objective optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multi-objective-optimization.md) | 17 |
| 9 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 16 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,278 | 28.7 | [Predicting the impacts of epidemic outbreaks on global supply chains: A simulation-based analysis on the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2) case](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2020.101922) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2020-03-24 | Dmitry Ivanov |
| 2 | 1,292 | 14.1 | [Review of quantitative methods for supply chain resilience analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2019.03.001) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2019-03-22 | Seyedmohsen Hosseini, Dmitry Ivanov, Alexandre B. Dolgui |
| 3 | 1,011 | 13.2 | [Impacts of epidemic outbreaks on supply chains: mapping a research agenda amid the COVID-19 pandemic through a structured literature review](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-020-03685-7) | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 2020-06-16 | Maciel Manoel de Queiroz, Dmitry Ivanov, Alexandre B. Dolgui et al. |
| 4 | 996 | 14.5 | [COVID-19 pandemic related supply chain studies: A systematic review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2021.102271) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2021-02-15 | Priyabrata Chowdhury, Sanjoy Kumar Paul, Shahriar Kaisar et al. |
| 5 | 872 | 12.1 | [Can supply chain risk management practices mitigate the disruption impacts on supply chains’ resilience and robustness? Evidence from an empirical survey in a COVID-19 outbreak era](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2020.107972) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2020-10-30 | Jamal El Baz, Salomée Ruel |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “supply chain disruption”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/supply-chain-disruption

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