A bibliometric analysis of leading countries in supply chain management research

Abstract

Supply chain management as a newly comer discipline has attracted many attentions of the scholars to do an investigation based on its prominent level of importance for the economy and its influence on the management of the organizations. So, the key point is to understand the trends among the countries throughout the time to have a powerful insight about this issue. To this end, this work does a comprehensive analysis from 1990 to 2017. The purpose of this study is to analyze the leading countries and understand thoroughly their trends during the time. The work has dedicated to three sections. In the first one the countries have studied globally to give a comprehensive overview to academics. Next, the performance of the countries is studied in three periods to understand better the changes of each during the time. Finally, some individual journals and groups of journals are also investigated. The results show that the USA is the leader of the countries while China has experienced an enormous growth and it is predictable that with this trend can reach to the top of the list.