Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Sustainable Supply Chain Management is a research topic within Strategy and Management. Science Explorer counts 49k research works in it since 1959. 41.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers explores the conceptualization and implementation of the circular economy, with a focus on sustainable supply chain management, green practices, supply chain network design, remanufacturing, and business model innovation. It emphasizes the integration of environmental management and resource efficiency into product design and supply chain operations to achieve triple bottom line sustainability.
- Circular Economy
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Green Practices
- Supply Chain Network Design
- Remanufacturing
- Business Model Innovation
- Environmental Management
- Resource Efficiency
- Product Design
- Triple Bottom Line
- Research works
- 49k fractional, since 1959
- In the world top 10%
- 20k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 41.1% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +101% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Sustainable Supply Chain Management research?
By volume, China and India publish the most (3.3k and 1.6k works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 3.3k works
- 2 India 1.6k works
- 3 United States 947 works
- 4 United Kingdom 748 works
- 5 Italy 726 works
- 6 Brazil 716 works
- 7 Indonesia 657 works
- 8 Germany 632 works
- 9 Türkiye 615 works
- 10 Spain 429 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Sustainable Supply Chain Management research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Politecnico di Milano publishes the most Sustainable Supply Chain Management research, followed by Hong Kong Polytechnic University and University of Tehran.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 74 works
- 2 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong 56 works
- 3 University of TehranIran 48 works
- 4 Jiangsu UniversityChina 44 works
- 5 Bucharest University of Economic StudiesRomania 43 works
- 6 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 43 works
- 7 Shanghai UniversityChina 41 works
- 8 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 38 works
- 9 Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 37 works
- 10 Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaSpain 35 works
Who are the leading researchers in Sustainable Supply Chain Management?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Sustainable Supply Chain Management include Seeram Ramakrishna, Zeshui Xu and Kannan Govindan.
- 1 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 5.1k citations
- 2 Zeshui Xu China 3.3k citations
- 3 Kannan Govindan Denmark 2.7k citations
- 4 Gwo‐Hshiung Tzeng Taiwan 2.6k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Sustainable Supply Chain Management research done?
The largest centres of Sustainable Supply Chain 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 Lappeenranta.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- LappeenrantaFI · 27.8 works14×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Sustainable Supply Chain Management than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Sustainable Supply Chain Management?
Among universities, judged by research, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Parthenope University of Naples and Excelia Business School 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 | Lappeenranta-Lahti University of TechnologyFinland | 81.3 | 64.6% | 15.8× | 28 | +294.5% |
| 2 | Parthenope University of NaplesItaly | 76.0 | 63.3% | 16.3× | 22 | +194.3% |
| 3 | Excelia Business SchoolFrance | 73.1 | 71.6% | 55.9× | 14 | — |
| 4 | Abu Dhabi UniversityUnited Arab Emirates | 73.1 | 68.8% | 8.7× | 11 | +284.2% |
| 5 | University of Business and TechnologySaudi Arabia | 71.8 | 70.2% | 9.4× | 15 | — |
| 6 | NEOMA Business SchoolFrance | 71.7 | 65.3% | 36.5× | 18 | — |
| 7 | Management Development InstituteIndia | 71.4 | 66.1% | 38.4× | 16 | +170.5% |
| 8 | Vilnius Gediminas Technical UniversityLithuania | 68.5 | 41.4% | 15.4× | 27 | +455.6% |
| 9 | Indian Institute of Management MumbaiIndia | 68.3 | 55.8% | 84.0× | 13 | +217.7% |
| 10 | Zhongnan University of Economics and LawChina | 67.3 | 64.4% | 8.3× | 15 | +229.0% |
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 Sustainable Supply Chain Management research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 101% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Sustainable Supply Chain Management.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
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.