OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Production Research is 60. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Equity financing for carbon emission reduction supported by platform retailer: bane or boon for supplier encroachment?	326
AI-enhanced robust method for integrated healthcare resource pre-positioning and patient scheduling	313
Community logistics: a dynamic strategy for facilitating immediate parcel delivery to smart lockers	191
Safety-driven optimisation of human–robot collaborative assembly line balancing	177
Pandemic-related inventory management practices and financial performance: exploring the roles of pandemic-related production uncertainty and big data analytics capability	160
A simulation-based decision support tool for circular manufacturing systems in the automotive industry using electric machines as a remanufacturing case study	156
Distributed assembly shop scheduling problem for complex products considering multiskilled worker assignment and transportation time	154
Demand forecasting in supply chains: a review of aggregation and hierarchical approaches	140
Optimal pricing and capacity management in service systems with delay-sensitive mixed-risk customers	137
Is it beneficial to invest in flexible capacity for hybrid remanufacturing?	135
Dynamic layout design for scalable reconfigurable manufacturing systems	135
Defect detection in impeller parts utilising local geometric feature analysis	129
Digital transformation for safer circular lithium-ion battery supply chains: a blockchain ecosystem-data perspective	123
Effect of blockchain on corporate social responsibility in supply chain management	117
Robust cross-dock assignment problem with uncertain cost parameters	114
Delay-tolerated vehicle positioning and scheduling problem at terminal aprons: a target-oriented robust optimisation approach	107
Designing a food supply chain for enhanced social sustainability in developing countries	98
Data analytics in pharmaceutical supply chains: state of the art, opportunities, and challenges	96
Energy-efficient production control of a make-to-stock system with buffer- and time-based policies	94
A reinforcement learning-based approach for solving multi-agent job shop scheduling problem	87
Energy consumption control in the two-machine Bernoulli serial production line with setup and idleness	87
Analytics and machine learning in vehicle routing research	83
Distributed job-shop rescheduling problem considering reconfigurability of machines: a self-adaptive hybrid equilibrium optimiser	83
Sequencing two classes of jobs on a machine with an external no-idle constraint	82
Supply chain cybersecurity investments with interdependent risks under different information exchange modes	81

The supply chain effects on order strategy of cross-shareholdings	79
A reinforcement learning driven two-stage evolutionary optimisation for hybrid seru system scheduling with worker transfer	78
Research on balancing and sequencing problems of flexible mixed model assembly lines with alternative precedence relations	76
A capacitated lot-sizing problem in the industrial fashion sector under uncertainty: a conditional value-at-risk framework	75
An improved event-triggered predictive control for capacity adjustment in reconfigurable job-shops	75
A selection procedure for the design of mixed-model assembly systems considering walking workers and fixed workers	75
Platform supply chain innovations in the blockchain era: the ABCDE framework	74
Improving the decision-making process by considering supply uncertainty – a case study in the forest value chain	73
Enablers of artificial intelligence adoption and implementation in production systems	72
Rolling horizon policies for multi-stage stochastic assemble-to-order problems	71
Analysis and optimisation of periodic inventory models for perishable items with a general lifetime	71
A decomposition and coordination method for optimising ( Q , S ) policies in a two-echelon distribution	71
Application of artificial intelligence to enhance manufacturing quality and zero-defect using CRISP-DM framework	71
Dual cycle time modelling and design optimisation for the bidirectional flow-rack AS/RS	70
An overview on human-centred technologies, measurements and optimisation in assembly systems	69
A multi-agent resource bidding algorithm for order acceptance and assembly job shop scheduling	67
A hybrid LSTM method for forecasting demands of medical items in humanitarian operations	66
Implementation of digital twins in the food supply chain: a review and conceptual framework	66
Retailer- vs. Vendor-managed inventory in the presence of consumer response to retail stockouts	66
Employing disabled workers in production: simulating the impact on performance and service level	66
Performance of deep reinforcement learning algorithms in two-echelon inventory control systems	66
Assessing the sustainability of cloud computing service providers for Industry 4.0: a state-of-the-art analytical approach	65
Differentiated premium membership mechanism in platform competition	65
An integrated spatial-temporal neural network for proactive throughput bottleneck prediction in high-variety shops with complex job routings	64
Optimising hurricane shelter locations with smart predict-then-optimise framework	63
A hybrid model compression approach via knowledge distillation for predicting energy consumption in additive manufacturing	62
A hybrid learning-based meta-heuristic algorithm for scheduling of an additive manufacturing system consisting of parallel SLM machines	62
An integrated production and direct shipment problem in a mining industry	62
Catastrophe insurance and flexible planning for supply chain disruption management: a stochastic simulation case study	62
Production optimisation in carbon reduction engineering management	61
Robust modelling and prediction of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada	61
Carbon reduction engineering through value chains intersection, product and process re-design, industrial processes’ scraps de-manufacturing	61
An integrated batching problem for steel plate manufacturing with bi-strand casting	61
One-dimensional residual convolutional auto-encoder for fault detection in complex industrial processes	60
Integrated optimization of order splitting and distribution routing for the front warehouse mode e-retailing	60