Short Food Supply Chains in Africa: A Bibliometric and Thematic Mapping of an Emerging Research Field (supplementary data)

This dataset relates to the study “Short Food Supply Chains in Africa: A Review of Landscape, Promises and Paradoxes.”It comprises 80 bibliographic records derived from a merged search of Web of Science, Scopus, EBSCOhost, and ProQuest Central databases.The records were harmonised and deduplicated using DOIs, with Web of Science providing the unified source for the final dataset.The dataset captures publication metadata (authors, titles, abstracts, keywords, DOIs, affiliations, cited references, and citation counts) related to short food supply chains (SFSCs) and analogous local food system concepts within African contexts.The data were processed using the bibliometrix and Biblioshiny packages in R (v4.5.1), producing the analytical basis for co-authorship, co-citation, and keyword co-occurrence networks presented in the paper. It also contains the R script for running the data