OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Production Research is 63. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Energy-efficient production control of a make-to-stock system with buffer- and time-based policies	471
Attractiveness factors in retail category space location-allocation problem	239
Function block-enabled operation planning and machine control in Cloud-DPP	223
Toward efficient waste electric vehicle battery recycling via auction-based market trading mechanisms	211
Knowledge obstacles when transitioning towards circular economy: an industrial intra-organisational perspective	207
A multi-agent resource bidding algorithm for order acceptance and assembly job shop scheduling	188
Exploring blockchain technologies in sustainable supply chains – unveiling the latent research topics using an AI approach	181
An intelligent matching recommendation algorithm for a manufacturing capacity sharing platform with fairness concerns	177
Quantitative insights into the integrated push and pull production problem for lean supply chain planning 4.0	171
Consumer service level-oriented resilience optimisation for e-commerce supply chain considering hybrid strategies with blockchain adoption	161
The influence of carbon emission reduction instruments on blockchain technology adoption in recycling batteries of the new energy vehicles	148
Opportunistic maintenance optimisation for offshore wind farm with considering random wind speed	135
Building knowledge beyond our experience: integrating sustainable development goals into IJPR’s research future	131
Optimal dynamic pricing strategy for non-durable experience goods: the role of consumer AI learning	124
Exploring modularity's effects on process efficiency in single assembly line balancing	123
Strategic decision-making for sustainable production and distribution in automotive industry: a machine learning enabled dynamic multi-objective optimisation	121
An analytical method for investigating multi-tier sustainable supply chains: simplifying the complex	120
Αn AI-driven approach to assess sentiments and interpret context in a critical mineral supply chain	112
Supply chain cybersecurity investments with interdependent risks under different information exchange modes	107
Special issue on collaborative production and maintenance in the environment of big data and industry 4.0	106
Rolling horizon policies for multi-stage stochastic assemble-to-order problems	105
Performance analysis and optimisation of Bernoulli serial production lines with dynamic real-time bottleneck identification and mitigation	101
A hybrid approach of case-based reasoning and process reasoning to typical parts grinding process intelligent decision	101
Implementation of digital twins in the food supply chain: a review and conceptual framework	100
Selecting industrial IoT Platform for digital servitisation: a framework integrating platform leverage practices and cloud HBWM-TOPSIS approach	96

The paradigm shift of mass customisation research	95
Catastrophe insurance and flexible planning for supply chain disruption management: a stochastic simulation case study	93
A reinforcement learning-based approach for solving multi-agent job shop scheduling problem	91
Integrated optimisation of delivery and installation operations in home appliance last-mile logistics	91
An overview on human-centred technologies, measurements and optimisation in assembly systems	87
A reinforcement learning driven two-stage evolutionary optimisation for hybrid seru system scheduling with worker transfer	86
Prioritizing adoption barriers of platforms based on blockchain technology from balanced scorecard perspectives in healthcare industry: a structural approach	85
Smart charging with demand response and energy peak shaving for reefer containers with Internet-of-Things	84
Electric vehicle adoption in logistics supply chain	82
IoT-based milk-run routing for manufacturing system: an application case in an automotive company	81
Mathematical modelling of carbon emissions and process parameters optimisation for laser welding cell	80
Optimal extended warranty pricing and retailing strategies in a closed-loop supply chain	79
A hybrid LSTM method for forecasting demands of medical items in humanitarian operations	75
Human-centred AI in industry 5.0: a systematic review	75
Industry 4.0 technologies as enablers of collaboration in circular supply chains: a systematic literature review	73
A capacity matching model in a collaborative urban public transport system: integrating passenger and freight transportation	71
An innovative framework integrating MILP and a parallel optimal algorithm for UAV-Enabled last-Mile delivery	71
A quantitative approach to resilience in manufacturing systems	71
Semantic-aware event link reasoning over industrial knowledge graph embedding time series data	71
Complex network-based storage assignment strategy for item communities	70
Product family formation based on optimal resource sequence for reconfigurable manufacturing system	69
A novel approach for predicting Lockout/Tagout safety procedures for smart maintenance strategies	69
A digital twin-based cyber-physical system for resilient short-term equipment leasing	69
Minimum order quantity requirements in the presence of supply disruption risk and retail competition	67
Minimising total weighted completion time for semi-online single machine scheduling with known arrivals and bounded processing times	67
Improving asset management capabilities: a novel decision support system for maturity assessment	67
Blockchain-enabled horizontal capacity sharing under demand uncertainty	66
Sustainability meets service procurement: a case study in the ICT service sector	66
A graph-based approach for integrating massive data in container terminals with application to scheduling problem	66
Stochastic modelling and analysis of a deteriorating serial production–inventory network	66
A three-step approach for decision support in operational production planning of complex manufacturing systems	65
Identifying profitable reference architectures in an engineer-to-order context	65
A port-hinterland hub network design method for reefer containers considering time-varying demands and diverse supporting service requirements	64
Towards trustworthy AI for link prediction in supply chain knowledge graph: a neurosymbolic reasoning approach	63
Enhancing supply chain flows through blockchain: a comprehensive literature review	63
An efficient and adaptive design of reinforcement learning environment to solve job shop scheduling problem with soft actor-critic algorithm	63
Improved formulations of the joint order batching and picker routing problem	63
Real-time scheduling simulation optimisation of job shop in a production-logistics collaborative environment	63