The paper presents a bibliometric analysis about the papers of the research papers written in the scientific field that use one of the two notions “food supply chain” (SCI) - agri-food supply chain and “short food supply chain” (SFSC), the notion of “local food systems” (LFS) will be found also. The database queried was the Web of Sciences platform containing journals, articles with scientific content from several publications. Web of Science information databases were then processed with VOSviewer software [3]. The results of research in Web of Science confirm the growing scientific interest in studying the subject of the "agri-food supply chain". Out of the total of 2702, 2622 records for SCI and 80 records for SFSC. The first article was published in 1995, then their number increased to 59 articles published in 2012 and 2013. In the next period, the interest for the scientific study of this subject increased from 254 in 2018, to 327 in 2019, and in 2020 the number of articles on the subject of SCI was 390, reaching 404 in 2021.