The aim of this work is to study supply chain publications with a focus on global warming effects using a bibliometric approach. The study uses the Web of Science Core Collection database to analyze the bibliometric data from 1994 to 2018. The main objective is to identify the leading trends in this area by analyzing the most significant journals, papers, institutions and supra-regions. This work also develops a graphical mapping of the bibliographic material by using visualization of similarities (VOS) viewer software. With this software, the study analyses co-citations of journals and co-occurrence of author keywords. The results show the growth of the development of supply chain models that consider global warming factors between 2014-2018, which is consistent with the general public awareness of climate change. The researchers from Imperial College London and Hong Kong Polytechnic University have the greatest number of publications in this area. In terms of supra-regions, more than 25% of the publications come from Asian universities, followed by American and British universities with 20%. Given the growing global concern about the effects of supply chains on global warming, it is expected that the number of publications from different parts of the world and the greater number of citations will strongly increase. © 2019, Computers and Industrial Engineering. All rights reserved.