Top rated supply chain related factors in a specific journal: a keyword analysis

Global trade and its consequences have brought new considerations into business and its activities. One of the outcomes is clearly about the changes in supply chain related concerns. Since there is a continuously changing business and technological environment, it may be hard to identify the most important one among them. Therefore, the main objective of this research is to distinguish the top rated factors related to operations and supply chain management by evaluating all the abstracts of one journal named “Operations and Supply Chain Management” in the considered area. This research analyzes the keywords of the articles from the beginning of 2005 till the end of 2012. According to the results, in the analyzed period, the focus categories of the articles are identified. Those focus points associated with supply chain (management) are reviewed in the related literature. Therefore, this research is expected to provide beneficial information for every manager on the ways of improving their supply chain efficiency, realization of the importance of transportation and logistics, embracing information technologies with their supply chain management, etc. Although this study has limitations, it is expected that it will be useful for future studies and the industry by identifying the hot and top rated factors related to supply chain and operations management.