Title: Research opportunities in supply chain management during COVID-19 outbreak: exploring through review and bibliometric analysis

Authors: Ratri Parida; Jaspreet Kaur; Sonia Singh

Addresses: IMT Ghaziabad, Raj Nagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, 201001, India ' Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, Delhi, India ' Toss Global Management, India

Abstract: The spread of coronavirus (SARS CoV-2) which is otherwise known as COVID-19 has a major effect on businesses, particularly disrupting the supply chains (SC). With the advent of the black swan event, many research articles were published about the execution of short-term plans that may mitigate the associated SC risks. This article summarises and presents a critical assessment of 367 articles collected from the Scopus database that is published in the past year (2020-2021). The insightful findings in terms of citation, co-citation, influential authors, contributing countries, key research areas through cluster analysis, etc. are presented with the help of a bibliometric approach. The analysis also shows the tools and techniques being used to mitigate SC issues. The proposed research framework will help the practitioners and academics to fully understand the complexity among SC partners due to the pandemic thereby proposing a response roadmap exploring potential research avenues.

Keywords: COVID-19; bibliometric analysis; supply chain resilience; sustainability; citation and co-citation analysis.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEBR.2024.141503

International Journal of Economics and Business Research, 2024 Vol.28 No.3/4, pp.335 - 349

Received: 30 May 2022
Accepted: 20 Sep 2022
Published online: 18 Sep 2024 *

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