OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Production Research is 61. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Integrated optimisation of delivery and installation operations in home appliance last-mile logistics	520
Electric vehicle adoption in logistics supply chain	232
Attractiveness factors in retail category space location-allocation problem	231
Function block-enabled operation planning and machine control in Cloud-DPP	214
An overview on human-centred technologies, measurements and optimisation in assembly systems	204
Information sharing and confidentiality: a federated multi-agent reinforcement learning approach for supply chain coordination	195
A capacity matching model in a collaborative urban public transport system: integrating passenger and freight transportation	194
A decision support framework on simulation fidelity for transferable and autonomously optimised swarm behaviour	166
Special issue on collaborative production and maintenance in the environment of big data and industry 4.0	158
Rolling horizon policies for multi-stage stochastic assemble-to-order problems	151
Supply chain cybersecurity investments with interdependent risks under different information exchange modes	149
Mathematical modelling of carbon emissions and process parameters optimisation for laser welding cell	133
A reinforcement learning-based approach for solving multi-agent job shop scheduling problem	128
A reinforcement learning driven two-stage evolutionary optimisation for hybrid seru system scheduling with worker transfer	117
Optimal dynamic pricing strategy for non-durable experience goods: the role of consumer AI learning	112
Exploring modularity's effects on process efficiency in single assembly line balancing	110
Αn AI-driven approach to assess sentiments and interpret context in a critical mineral supply chain	110
Toward efficient waste electric vehicle battery recycling via auction-based market trading mechanisms	105
Quantitative insights into the integrated push and pull production problem for lean supply chain planning 4.0	104
IoT-based milk-run routing for manufacturing system: an application case in an automotive company	102
Multi-period replenishment planning with supplier assignment under a dynamic demand and stochastic lead-times	102
Smart charging with demand response and energy peak shaving for reefer containers with Internet-of-Things	101
Exploring blockchain technologies in sustainable supply chains – unveiling the latent research topics using an AI approach	97
A hybrid LSTM method for forecasting demands of medical items in humanitarian operations	94
The paradigm shift of mass customisation research	89

Optimal extended warranty pricing and retailing strategies in a closed-loop supply chain	88
A multi-agent resource bidding algorithm for order acceptance and assembly job shop scheduling	88
Energy-efficient production control of a make-to-stock system with buffer- and time-based policies	86
Prioritizing adoption barriers of platforms based on blockchain technology from balanced scorecard perspectives in healthcare industry: a structural approach	84
Catastrophe insurance and flexible planning for supply chain disruption management: a stochastic simulation case study	81
The influence of carbon emission reduction instruments on blockchain technology adoption in recycling batteries of the new energy vehicles	79
Human-centred AI in industry 5.0: a systematic review	78
An intelligent matching recommendation algorithm for a manufacturing capacity sharing platform with fairness concerns	78
Building knowledge beyond our experience: integrating sustainable development goals into IJPR’s research future	78
Implementation of digital twins in the food supply chain: a review and conceptual framework	77
Knowledge obstacles when transitioning towards circular economy: an industrial intra-organisational perspective	76
Semantic-aware event link reasoning over industrial knowledge graph embedding time series data	76
A quantitative approach to resilience in manufacturing systems	74
Performance analysis and optimisation of Bernoulli serial production lines with dynamic real-time bottleneck identification and mitigation	74
Opportunistic maintenance optimisation for offshore wind farm with considering random wind speed	73
Consumer service level-oriented resilience optimisation for e-commerce supply chain considering hybrid strategies with blockchain adoption	71
An analytical method for investigating multi-tier sustainable supply chains: simplifying the complex	70
Strategic decision-making for sustainable production and distribution in automotive industry: a machine learning enabled dynamic multi-objective optimisation	70
An integrated multi-objective approach to collaborative disassembly line balancing and planning with TAOG-based modelling	68
Improving asset management capabilities: a novel decision support system for maturity assessment	68
A constraint programming approach to a real-world workforce scheduling problem for multi-manned assembly lines with sequence-dependent setup times	68
A fair distribution of expected profit in a supply chain with a risk-averse manufacturer	67
Enabling industrial internet of things-based digital servitization in smart production logistics	67
Complex network-based storage assignment strategy for item communities	66
A concise guide to scheduling with learning and deteriorating effects	65
Deep reinforcement learning for solving steelmaking-continuous casting scheduling problems under time-of-use tariffs	65
Deploying hybrid modelling to support the development of a digital twin for supply chain master planning under disruptions	65
Towards trustworthy AI for link prediction in supply chain knowledge graph: a neurosymbolic reasoning approach	65
A state-of-art review and a simple meta-analysis on deterministic scheduling of diffusion furnaces in semiconductor manufacturing	65
Minimum order quantity requirements in the presence of supply disruption risk and retail competition	65
The ASSISTANT project: AI for high level decisions in manufacturing	64
Assignment strategy and lane depth in homogeneous multi-deep shuttle-based S/R systems	64
An innovative framework integrating MILP and a parallel optimal algorithm for UAV-Enabled last-Mile delivery	63
Blockchain-enabled horizontal capacity sharing under demand uncertainty	63
Product family formation based on optimal resource sequence for reconfigurable manufacturing system	62
A two-stage stochastic programming model and parallel Master–Slave adaptive GA for flexible Seru system formation	61
A digital twin-based cyber-physical system for resilient short-term equipment leasing	61