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Supply Chain and Inventory Management

Supply Chain and Inventory Management is a research topic within Management Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 31k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the coordination and information sharing in supply chains, including topics such as inventory management, revenue management, dynamic pricing, demand forecasting, contracting, and risk management. It explores the challenges and strategies for achieving coordination and efficiency in dual-channel supply chains through various contract types and information sharing mechanisms.

  • Supply Chain Coordination
  • Information Sharing
  • Inventory Management
  • Revenue Management
  • Channel Coordination
  • Dynamic Pricing
  • Demand Forecasting
  • Contracting
  • Risk Management
  • Dual-Channel Supply Chains
Research works
31k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Supply Chain and Inventory Management

Which countries lead Supply Chain and Inventory Management research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2.1k and 806 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.1k works
  2. 2 India 806 works
  3. 3 United States 744 works
  4. 4 Iran 222 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 171 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 168 works
  7. 7 Canada 147 works
  8. 8 Germany 142 works
  9. 9 France 126 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 115 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 43.8%India: 17.2%United States: 15.8%Iran: 4.7%6 others listed: 18.5%44%largest
China2,056 · 43.8%India806 · 17.2%United States744 · 15.8%Iran222 · 4.7%6 others listed869 · 18.5%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Supply Chain and Inventory Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Hong Kong Polytechnic University publishes the most Supply Chain and Inventory Management research, followed by Islamic Azad University, Tehran and University of Science and Technology of China.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 40 works
  2. 2 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 40 works
  3. 3 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 40 works
  4. 4 South China University of TechnologyChina 34 works
  5. 5 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 32 works
  6. 6 Shanghai UniversityChina 30 works
  7. 7 Southeast UniversityChina 29 works
  8. 8 Northeastern UniversityChina 28 works
  9. 9 Tianjin UniversityChina 28 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 27 works

Who are the leading researchers in Supply Chain and Inventory Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Supply Chain and Inventory Management include Xiaogang Wang, Bruce Leonard Miller and Qiang Zhang.

  1. 1 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  2. 2 Bruce Leonard Miller United States 196k citations
  3. 3 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  4. 4 Michael I. Jordan United States 182k citations
  5. 5 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations
  6. 6 Daron Acemoğlu United States 164k citations
  7. 7 Seyedali Mirjalili Australia 154k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Supply Chain and Inventory Management?

The most cited paper in Supply Chain and Inventory Management is "Measuring the efficiency of decision making units" (A. Charnes, William White Cooper, Edwardo L. Rhodes, 1978), with 29,033 citations. Next come "Optimal Auction Design" (6,188) and "Information Distortion in a Supply Chain: The Bullwhip Effect" (4,750).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Measuring the efficiency of decision making units A. Charnes, William White Cooper, Edwardo L. Rhodes · European Journal of Operational Research Open access Nov 1978 29,033
2 Optimal Auction Design Roger B. Myerson · Mathematics of Operations Research Feb 1981 6,188
3 Information Distortion in a Supply Chain: The Bullwhip Effect Hau L. Lee, Vineet Padmanabhan, Seungjin Whang · Management Science Apr 1997 4,750
4 Increasing risk: I. A definition Michael Rothschild, Joseph E. Stiglitz · Journal of Economic Theory Sep 1970 3,940
5 Building the Resilient Supply Chain Martin G. Christopher, Helen Peck · The International Journal of Logistics Management Open access Jul 2004 3,638
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Supply Chain and Inventory Management research done?

The largest centres of Supply Chain and Inventory Management research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Tehran (Iran). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Meerut.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 248 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 202 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 137 works
  4. 4 TehranIran 135 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 107 works
  6. 6 ChengduChina 92 works
  7. 7 TianjinChina 92 works
  8. 8 Hong KongChina 76 works
  9. 9 HefeiChina 75 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 72 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MeerutIN · 24.3 works20×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Supply Chain and Inventory Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Supply Chain and Inventory Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Saveetha University and University of Science and Technology of China score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 23.06%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Yonsei UniversitySaveetha UniversityHong Kong Polytechni…University of Scienc…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 72.219.9%9.0×40 -9.8%
2Saveetha UniversityIndia 61.634.3%2.8×14 +539.8%
3University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 61.115.7%6.4×40 +4.2%
4Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 59.145.2%2.5×12 -1.5%
5University of LiverpoolUnited Kingdom 57.432.9%3.7×11 +39.0%
6South China University of TechnologyChina 56.019.9%5.9×34 -5.7%
7Shanghai UniversityChina 55.811.6%8.0×30 +52.3%
8Northeastern UniversityChina 54.720.3%6.1×28 +10.4%
9Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 53.813.5%21.3×27 +16.5%
10University of TehranIran 51.517.3%8.1×25 -61.7%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Supply Chain and Inventory Management, country by country

Is Supply Chain and Inventory Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Supply Chain and Inventory Management.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Supply Chain and Inventory Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Supply Chain and Inventory Management0.024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Supply Chain and Inventory Management over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Supply Chain and Inventory Management10.2% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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