Blockchain and Supply Chain Transparency: Bibliometric and Visualization Analysis

In the extremely dynamic environment, the concept of digitalization and supply chain transparency have attracted increasing attention from researchers and practitioners, due to increasing the social, economic and environmental challenges in recent years. To address these challenges, supply chain actors have been obliged to improve their supply chain transparency, both upstream and downstream, to strengthen their proactive and reactive capabilities in this competitive business environment. Due to the complexity of supply chain, digitalization appears as inevitable pillar to improve transparency of flows between different actors involved in this network in real time, by implementing industry 4.0 technologies. Blockchain is one such advanced technology has been discussed in literature to enable supply chain transparency. Our chapter aims to map scientific production of the nexus between blockchain technology and supply chain transparency using bibliometric approach. A total of 745 documents published in the Scopus database from 2017 to 2025 have been analyzed via Vosviewer software.