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title: "Supply chain management research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “supply chain management” appeared in 820 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (470), management (143) and information systems (63)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “supply chain management” appeared in 820 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (470), management (143) and information systems (63). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Papers on “supply chain management”

Research on “supply chain management” 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 management” appeared in 820 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (470), management (143) and information systems (63).
- 119 of them were published in 2025, against 62 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (9), University of Liverpool (8) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (7).
- The journals publishing most of them were Annals of Operations Research (34), Computers & Industrial Engineering (30) and International Journal of Production Economics (30).
- The most-cited of them is “1 Blockchain’s roles in meeting key supply chain management objectives” (International Journal of Information Management, 2017), with 2,150 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) | 34 | 26 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 67 | 52 | 54 | 71 | 49 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 16 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 18 | 13 | 24 | 19 | 16 | 15 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 4 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 3 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 4 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 4 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 62 | 44 | 62 | 68 | 75 | 100 | 105 | 102 | 119 | 83 |

## 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) | 34 |
| 2 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 30 |
| 3 | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 30 |
| 4 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 22 |
| 5 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 19 |
| 6 | [Operations Management Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-management-research.md) | 19 |
| 7 | [Supply Chain Analytics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/supply-chain-analytics.md) | 17 |
| 8 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 15 |
| 9 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 13 |
| 10 | [Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-purchasing-and-supply-management.md) | 13 |

*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 | [University of Liverpool](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-liverpool.md) | 8 |
| 3 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 7 |
| 4 | [University of Surrey](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-surrey.md) | 7 |
| 5 | Excelia Business School | 6 |
| 6 | Indian Institute of Management Ranchi | 6 |
| 7 | University of Kent | 6 |
| 8 | [Zhongnan University of Economics and Law](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhongnan-university-of-economics-and-law.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [Hefei University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hefei-university-of-technology.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [Huazhong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 5 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 112 |
| 2 | United States | 65 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 54 |
| 4 | India | 46 |
| 5 | France | 44 |
| 6 | Germany | 36 |
| 7 | Australia | 23 |
| 8 | Iran | 18 |
| 9 | Brazil | 15 |
| 10 | Canada | 14 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [blockchain](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/blockchain.md) | 46 |
| 2 | [supply chain resilience](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/supply-chain-resilience.md) | 34 |
| 3 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 26 |
| 4 | [inventory management](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/inventory-management.md) | 22 |
| 5 | [sustainability](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/sustainability.md) | 22 |
| 6 | [Industry 4.0](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/industry-4-0.md) | 20 |
| 7 | supply chain sustainability | 19 |
| 8 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 18 |
| 9 | operations management | 18 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,150 | 20.1 | [1 Blockchain’s roles in meeting key supply chain management objectives](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2017.12.005) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2017-12-12 | Nir Kshetri |
| 2 | 1,891 | 30.1 | [Industry 5.0: A survey on enabling technologies and potential applications](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jii.2021.100257) | [Journal of Industrial Information Integration](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-industrial-information-integration.md) | 2021-08-11 | Praveen Kumar Reddy Maddikunta, Quoc‐Viet Pham, B. Prabadevi et al. |
| 3 | 1,084 | 11.4 | [Blockchain adoption challenges in supply chain: An empirical investigation of the main drivers in India and the USA](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2018.11.021) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2018-12-05 | Maciel Manoel de Queiroz, Samuel Fosso Wamba |
| 4 | 1,056 | 11.1 | [A review of Internet of Things (IoT) embedded sustainable supply chain for industry 4.0 requirements](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2018.11.030) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 2018-11-17 | Manavalan Ethirajan, Jayakrishna Kandasamy |
| 5 | 1,017 | 13.9 | [Artificial intelligence in supply chain management: A systematic literature review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.09.009) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2020-09-24 | Reza Toorajipour, Vahid Sohrabpour, Ali Nazarpour et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “supply chain management”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/supply-chain-management

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