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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Attractiveness factors in retail category space location-allocation problem	393
Performance analysis and optimisation of Bernoulli serial production lines with dynamic real-time bottleneck identification and mitigation	373
Knowledge obstacles when transitioning towards circular economy: an industrial intra-organisational perspective	219
Quantitative insights into the integrated push and pull production problem for lean supply chain planning 4.0	194
Smart charging with demand response and energy peak shaving for reefer containers with Internet-of-Things	190
An analytical method for investigating multi-tier sustainable supply chains: simplifying the complex	177
An intelligent matching recommendation algorithm for a manufacturing capacity sharing platform with fairness concerns	167
A hybrid approach of case-based reasoning and process reasoning to typical parts grinding process intelligent decision	162
Assessing the sustainability of cloud computing service providers for Industry 4.0: a state-of-the-art analytical approach	161
The paradigm shift of mass customisation research	158
A quantitative approach to resilience in manufacturing systems	156
Energy-efficient production control of a make-to-stock system with buffer- and time-based policies	152
A capacity matching model in a collaborative urban public transport system: integrating passenger and freight transportation	147
Industry 4.0 technologies as enablers of collaboration in circular supply chains: a systematic literature review	145
Building knowledge beyond our experience: integrating sustainable development goals into IJPR’s research future	116
Rolling horizon policies for multi-stage stochastic assemble-to-order problems	113
A multisource domain adaptation method for quality prediction in small-batch production systems	109
A hybrid LSTM method for forecasting demands of medical items in humanitarian operations	108
Αn AI-driven approach to assess sentiments and interpret context in a critical mineral supply chain	108
A reinforcement learning-based approach for solving multi-agent job shop scheduling problem	103
The influence of carbon emission reduction instruments on blockchain technology adoption in recycling batteries of the new energy vehicles	102
Function block-enabled operation planning and machine control in Cloud-DPP	99
Selecting industrial IoT Platform for digital servitisation: a framework integrating platform leverage practices and cloud HBWM-TOPSIS approach	99
Special issue on collaborative production and maintenance in the environment of big data and industry 4.0	97
A multi-agent resource bidding algorithm for order acceptance and assembly job shop scheduling	95

Exploring blockchain technologies in sustainable supply chains – unveiling the latent research topics using an AI approach	92
Optimal extended warranty pricing and retailing strategies in a closed-loop supply chain	92
Supply chain cybersecurity investments with interdependent risks under different information exchange modes	90
Mathematical modelling of carbon emissions and process parameters optimisation for laser welding cell	90
IoT-based milk-run routing for manufacturing system: an application case in an automotive company	89
A hybrid learning-based meta-heuristic algorithm for scheduling of an additive manufacturing system consisting of parallel SLM machines	89
Human-centred AI in industry 5.0: a systematic review	88
Catastrophe insurance and flexible planning for supply chain disruption management: a stochastic simulation case study	86
Semantic-aware event link reasoning over industrial knowledge graph embedding time series data	85
Prioritizing adoption barriers of platforms based on blockchain technology from balanced scorecard perspectives in healthcare industry: a structural approach	83
Implementation of digital twins in the food supply chain: a review and conceptual framework	82
Strategic decision-making for sustainable production and distribution in automotive industry: a machine learning enabled dynamic multi-objective optimisation	81
Consumer service level-oriented resilience optimisation for e-commerce supply chain considering hybrid strategies with blockchain adoption	80
Opportunistic maintenance optimisation for offshore wind farm with considering random wind speed	80
Toward efficient waste electric vehicle battery recycling via auction-based market trading mechanisms	79
A reinforcement learning driven two-stage evolutionary optimisation for hybrid seru system scheduling with worker transfer	78
An overview on human-centred technologies, measurements and optimisation in assembly systems	78
Assignment strategy and lane depth in homogeneous multi-deep shuttle-based S/R systems	77
A digital twin-based cyber-physical system for resilient short-term equipment leasing	76
Product family formation based on optimal resource sequence for reconfigurable manufacturing system	75
Enabling industrial internet of things-based digital servitization in smart production logistics	74
Hierarchical multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for dynamic flexible job-shop scheduling with transportation	74
An efficient and adaptive design of reinforcement learning environment to solve job shop scheduling problem with soft actor-critic algorithm	73
Blockchain-based digital product passport: design principles and demonstration	70
A novel approach for predicting Lockout/Tagout safety procedures for smart maintenance strategies	70
Minimising total weighted completion time for semi-online single machine scheduling with known arrivals and bounded processing times	69
A graph-based approach for integrating massive data in container terminals with application to scheduling problem	68
Sustainability meets service procurement: a case study in the ICT service sector	68
Minimum order quantity requirements in the presence of supply disruption risk and retail competition	68
A joint production-workforce-delivery stochastic planning problem for perishable items	67
Retailing and ordering strategies for online apparel retailers facing bracketing purchase behaviour	66
A port-hinterland hub network design method for reefer containers considering time-varying demands and diverse supporting service requirements	65
Industrial processes and the smart grid: overcoming the variability of renewables by using built-in process storage and intelligent control strategies	65
Identifying profitable reference architectures in an engineer-to-order context	63
Cost-effective dynamic sampling in high dimensional online monitoring with advantage actor-critic	63
AI-driven dynamic pricing for high-value assets in manufacturing and services: optimizing finite horizon sales with demand sensitivity	62
Blockchain-enabled horizontal capacity sharing under demand uncertainty	61
A state-of-art review and a simple meta-analysis on deterministic scheduling of diffusion furnaces in semiconductor manufacturing	61