Supply chain risk management: a bibliometric analysis considering healthcare supply chains

Abstract

Bibliographic research reveals that there are few papers that apply concepts of Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) to Healthcare Supply Chains. Therefore, to better understand the state of the art about SCRM, the article consists of performing a bibliometric analysis on regarding the number of publications per year, the number of publications and citations by country, the top ten authors on the researched theme, citation number by article, publication number by journal, by segment and according to the techniques used, bibliographic coupling, co-citation and collaboration, word cloud and multiple correspondence analysis. For this purpose, the search terms, the databases (Web of Science and Scopus), the research period (from Jan/2004 to Jan/2019) and the procedures were conducted according to the Prisma Protocol. The results reveal that the number of articles published has grown over the years, the US leads with 16% of total articles published and the International Journal of Production Research takes the lead in total publication. The automotive segment comes first, the most commonly used technique is simulation, and the most frequently used keywords are “risk assessment”, ‘supply chain management” and “supply chain risk”.

Keywords

• supply chain risk management
• bibliometric
• systematic review