Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) is a very important study to improve the competitiveness of a company and industrial system, because it can integrate each distribution chain efficiently and effectively with environmental, social and economic considerations. The importance of this study has encouraged various parties to conduct research and has been published in various media, including journals, proceedings, and books. This article discusses SSCM research quantitatively to know the progress. Quantitative methods with descriptive statistics have been constructed to process the entire SSCM publication output data indexed by Scopus up to the end of December 2017. A total of 8,120 articles on SSCM is divided into three periods to obtain the developmental trend of SSCM science studies in the world. Data processing is conducted by comparing the development of SSCM science in the world. Comparative analysis of the development of SSCM research by region, subject, and keywords has been discussed in this article. Research in SSCM related to sustainable development and sustainability become more interesting and challenging.

Topics
Energy analysis, Data processing, Books, Journal, Descriptive statistics
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