Keywords
CiteSpace
Smart supply chain
Visual analysis
Submitted : 2025-06-15
Accepted : 2025-06-30
Published : 2025-07-15
Abstract
Under the trend of economic globalization, the importance of supply chains has gradually become prominent, especially with the transformation and upgrading of China’s industrial chains in recent years. Supply chain transformation has emerged as a significant focus of current academic research, and the construction of smart supply chains represents an inevitable development trend. This paper utilizes 1,051 research articles on smart supply chains published in core journals on China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) from 2014 to 2024 as the data source. It analyzes the literature data using CiteSpace software, visually exploring and revealing the frontiers and hotspots of domestic research on smart supply chains. The data analysis reveals that academic research in this field is at a stage of steady and healthy development. Domestic research trends include the cooperative mechanisms of smart supply chains in manufacturing, the operational mechanisms of smart supply chains in agriculture, and systematic research on influencing factors of smart supply chains.
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