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. 27.5% 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%
- 8.4k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 27.5% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +15% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Supply Chain and Inventory Management research?
By volume, China and India publish the most (1.7k and 713 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 1.7k works
- 2 India 713 works
- 3 United States 646 works
- 4 Iran 199 works
- 5 Indonesia 148 works
- 6 United Kingdom 148 works
- 7 Canada 134 works
- 8 Germany 127 works
- 9 France 114 works
- 10 Türkiye 104 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.
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Which institutions lead Supply Chain and Inventory Management research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Hong Kong Polytechnic University publishes the most Supply Chain and Inventory Management research, followed by University of Science and Technology of China and South China University of Technology.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong 36 works
- 2 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 35 works
- 3 South China University of TechnologyChina 30 works
- 4 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 29 works
- 5 Shanghai UniversityChina 27 works
- 6 Southeast UniversityChina 26 works
- 7 Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 25 works
- 8 Northeastern UniversityChina 25 works
- 9 Tianjin UniversityChina 25 works
- 10 Iran University of Science and TechnologyIran 24 works
Who are the leading researchers in Supply Chain and Inventory Management?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Supply Chain and Inventory Management include Witold Pedrycz, Fei–Yue Wang and M. Kaur.
- 1 Witold Pedrycz Canada 5.4k citations
- 2 Fei–Yue Wang China 4.2k citations
- 3 M. Kaur India 4k citations
- 4 Kannan Govindan Denmark 2.7k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Supply Chain and Inventory Management research done?
The largest centres of Supply Chain and Inventory Management research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Tehran (Iran) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Meerut.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- MeerutIN · 21.7 works22×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Supply Chain and Inventory Management than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Supply Chain and Inventory Management?
Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of Burdwan and Dongbei University of Finance and Economics 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong | 71.8 | 42.9% | 8.0× | 36 | +32.2% |
| 2 | University of BurdwanIndia | 70.4 | 62.8% | 28.3× | 12 | +156.5% |
| 3 | Dongbei University of Finance and EconomicsChina | 65.6 | 46.8% | 33.0× | 10 | +238.8% |
| 4 | Iran University of Science and TechnologyIran | 65.4 | 42.3% | 17.4× | 24 | +45.6% |
| 5 | University of TehranIran | 65.0 | 45.8% | 7.1× | 22 | +155.2% |
| 6 | Sidho-Kanho-Birsha UniversityIndia | 61.0 | 67.0% | 59.8× | 9 | — |
| 7 | Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina | 60.3 | 40.1% | 19.6× | 25 | -11.9% |
| 8 | Tecnológico de MonterreyMexico | 60.1 | 51.3% | 7.6× | 10 | +154.8% |
| 9 | Graphic Era UniversityIndia | 58.1 | 20.6% | 9.2× | 16 | +231.5% |
| 10 | Tianjin University of Finance and EconomicsChina | 56.7 | 41.3% | 72.6× | 12 | +66.9% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Supply Chain and Inventory Management research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 15% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Supply Chain and Inventory Management.
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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.