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In the last decades, automobile manufacturers have been challenged with a continuous increase on global competition, customer's demands and economic instability which forced them to focus on their core competencies while having to outsource many of its operations and subcomponents. Adopting a quantitative approach on the scientific production of a specific field can be very helpful to deepen its understanding and to contribute to the forthcoming studies on the topic. The main objective of this study, therefore, is to quantitatively analyze what was published on supplier development area on the automotive context by the application of bibliometric techniques. In order to do so, the search string ((supplier development OR supplier performance OR supplier management) AND automo*) was applied on the ISI Web of Knowledge database, and the time frame was restricted to papers that were published within the years of 1993 to 2015, generating a sample of 60 papers. At the end, the results of descriptive statistics analysis identified the authors, articles, journals most referenced by scholars worldwide. This study becomes then an important contribution on the development of new ideas, concepts and approaches as well as on the consolidation of this field of research.
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