The annual Supply Chain Management (SCM) journal list ranking measures the research output on supply chain management in eight leading journals and offers two forms of evaluation, the empirical and the analytical focus. The SCM journal list ranking with an analytical focus is based on the publications in the following four journals: Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Operations Research, and Production and Operations Management.

The current SCM journal list ranking by analytically-focused journals ranks the University of Cologne in Germany on the second place. The international comparison ranks the University of Cologne on the 81^th place [Rankings by analytically-focused journals, year range 2025 (2020-2024)].