The purpose of this paper is to conduct a bibliometric analysis to analyze trends and patterns of outsourcing and supply chain research results using statistical and co-word analysis. The search results in the Scopus database yielded 787 relevant documents with the keywords outsourcing and supply chain from 1997 to early 2022. The results of the bibliometric analysis resulted in the number of publications, citations, subject areas, country, keywords, and topic clusters. The trend of outsourcing and supply chain research tends to increase every year although it had a significant decline in 2011. The documents with the most citations are related to supplier selection using analytical network processes, optimization of outsourcing partners, and ICT in the supply chain. The four fields that dominate the research area are business management, engineering, decision science, and computer science. The United States of America is the most productive country with the most citations. There are four cluster topics formed: the importance of supply chain management in outsourcing in industry and ICT in company activities, the impact of supply chain on business performance and outsourcing decisions, logistics outsourcing decisions to third parties and their effectiveness, lastly the benefit costs of outsourcing and the implications for product management. This paper provides an additional updated overview of the outsourcing and supply chain research map.