Knowledge mapping of e-commerce supply chain management: a bibliometric analysis

E-commerce supply chain management is a considerably hot research topic in recent decades, and the research findings have been widely published in various well-known international journals. To explore its research status and trend, we employ a bibliometric analysis approach to conduct performance analyses and reveal the publication trend, the main discipline categories, the top contributing countries, institutions, authors, the most influential documents and the dominant academic journals. Furthermore, we shed light on the dynamic evolution tendency of research topics and hotspots in this field. The keywords co-occurrence analysis reveals implications into 7 major clusters including e-commerce operations, supply chain management, pricing strategy, coordination mechanism design, sustainable development management, cross-border e-commerce management, and closed-loop supply chain management. The research gap analysis suggests that future research directions could combine live-streaming, emerging technologies, disruption risk and behavioral preference into the e-commerce supply chain management research.