With the increasing complexity of supply chain management, supply chain concentration (SCC) has become a prominent research topic in academia and practice. To clarify the developmental context and research trends within this field, this study utilizes the Web of Science core collection as the data source, selecting 362 English-language publications from 1975 to 2025. CiteSpace 6.2 was employed to conduct a visual bibliometric analysis, systematically examining the social structure, conceptual structure, and intellectual structure of SCC research through co-authorship, co-word, and co-citation analyses. The results indicate rapid growth in SCC research since 2020, with China and the United States being the major contributing countries, and collaborations exhibiting regional characteristics. High-frequency keywords prominently include "customer concentration," "supplier concentration," and "performance," with research themes progressively extending toward frontier topics such as "digital transformation," "green innovation," and "corporate social responsibility." Co-citation analysis identified representative works by authors such as Panos Patatoukas, Dan Dhaliwal, and Murillo Campello, highlighting a shift in research focus from traditional performance perspectives to governance mechanisms and sustainable strategies within a digital context. This study summarizes core literature clusters, evolutionary paths of clusters, and significant citation bursts, revealing interdisciplinary integration and paradigm shifts in SCC research. The paper provides a systematic review of future directions in SCC studies.

This study examines the sustainability of Agricultural Trade Supply Chains (ATSC) from the perspective of agricultural sustainable development, with a focus on five key aspects: production, processing and storage, transportation and logistics, trade, and consumer and market. Based on an analysis of 756 academic papers published between 2013 and 2022, scientific metric techniques were used to identify changes in the field's sustainability. The study highlights opportunities for the development of a sustainable agricultural product trade supply chain, including the use of blockchain technology to improve transparency and traceability, increasing consumer demand for sustainable and eco-friendly products, corporate zero-deforestation commitments, bioenergy market expansion, and the role of farm advisors in promoting sustainable production methods. This paper contributes to a structured understanding of the status and future directions of ATSC sustainability, emphasizing the importance of joint efforts across all links of the supply chain to meet the sustainable needs of consumers and promote environmental protection and social-friendly markets.