Asian Journal Of Social Pharmacy

Abstract: Objective To study the development trend and hotspot of China’s drug supply chain in terms of bibliometrics to provide some reference for transforming and upgrading China’s pharmaceutical circulation industry. Methods Based on the data related to drug supply chain research from 1999 to 2019 collected by CNKI, Wanfang and VIP, software such as bibliographic information co-occurrence mining system (BICOMS) version 2.0, University of California Irvine Network (UCINET) version 6.0, and graphical clustering toolkit were used to measure and conduct visual analysis of the domestic drug supply chain research literature. Results and Conclusion Through literature analysis, it can be seen that the current research on drug supply chain in China mainly focuses on drug procurement and cost control, zero inventory control of hospital pharmacy, optimization and risk management of drug supply chain, and information of supply chain and logistics of pharmaceutical enterprises. Combining with the “Internet +” and other models, drug supply chain enterprise should optimize its management process according to the relevant national policy, promote information construction in all links of the supply chain, improve its transparency and ensure the quality and safety of drugs. The improvement of supply chain efficiency will enhance the transformation and upgrading of China’s pharmaceutical circulation industry.

Key words: drug supply chain, bibliometrics, visual analysis, development trend