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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Attractiveness factors in retail category space location-allocation problem	349
A hybrid LSTM method for forecasting demands of medical items in humanitarian operations	349
Opportunistic maintenance optimisation for offshore wind farm with considering random wind speed	209
Quantitative insights into the integrated push and pull production problem for lean supply chain planning 4.0	181
Energy-efficient production control of a make-to-stock system with buffer- and time-based policies	178
An analytical method for investigating multi-tier sustainable supply chains: simplifying the complex	171
Strategic decision-making for sustainable production and distribution in automotive industry: a machine learning enabled dynamic multi-objective optimisation	152
A capacity matching model in a collaborative urban public transport system: integrating passenger and freight transportation	151
Performance analysis and optimisation of Bernoulli serial production lines with dynamic real-time bottleneck identification and mitigation	149
A multisource domain adaptation method for quality prediction in small-batch production systems	148
IoT-based milk-run routing for manufacturing system: an application case in an automotive company	147
Smart charging with demand response and energy peak shaving for reefer containers with Internet-of-Things	139
Mathematical modelling of carbon emissions and process parameters optimisation for laser welding cell	138
Prioritizing adoption barriers of platforms based on blockchain technology from balanced scorecard perspectives in healthcare industry: a structural approach	136
An overview on human-centred technologies, measurements and optimisation in assembly systems	124
Supply chain cybersecurity investments with interdependent risks under different information exchange modes	107
Knowledge obstacles when transitioning towards circular economy: an industrial intra-organisational perspective	101
Selecting industrial IoT Platform for digital servitisation: a framework integrating platform leverage practices and cloud HBWM-TOPSIS approach	97
Rolling horizon policies for multi-stage stochastic assemble-to-order problems	97
Function block-enabled operation planning and machine control in Cloud-DPP	93
Special issue on collaborative production and maintenance in the environment of big data and industry 4.0	90
Assessing the sustainability of cloud computing service providers for Industry 4.0: a state-of-the-art analytical approach	88
Implementation of digital twins in the food supply chain: a review and conceptual framework	88
Catastrophe insurance and flexible planning for supply chain disruption management: a stochastic simulation case study	88
Consumer service level-oriented resilience optimisation for e-commerce supply chain considering hybrid strategies with blockchain adoption	87

A multi-agent resource bidding algorithm for order acceptance and assembly job shop scheduling	86
Building knowledge beyond our experience: integrating sustainable development goals into IJPR’s research future	86
An intelligent matching recommendation algorithm for a manufacturing capacity sharing platform with fairness concerns	85
Exploring blockchain technologies in sustainable supply chains – unveiling the latent research topics using an AI approach	84
A reinforcement learning-based approach for solving multi-agent job shop scheduling problem	82
Toward efficient waste electric vehicle battery recycling via auction-based market trading mechanisms	81
A reinforcement learning driven two-stage evolutionary optimisation for hybrid seru system scheduling with worker transfer	80
Human-centred AI in industry 5.0: a systematic review	78
Optimal extended warranty pricing and retailing strategies in a closed-loop supply chain	78
CONWIP Redux: reflections on 30 years of development and implementation	78
A hybrid approach of case-based reasoning and process reasoning to typical parts grinding process intelligent decision	77
A quantitative approach to resilience in manufacturing systems	76
Semantic-aware event link reasoning over industrial knowledge graph embedding time series data	76
The influence of carbon emission reduction instruments on blockchain technology adoption in recycling batteries of the new energy vehicles	76
The paradigm shift of mass customisation research	74
A hybrid learning-based meta-heuristic algorithm for scheduling of an additive manufacturing system consisting of parallel SLM machines	74
Improved formulations of the joint order batching and picker routing problem	72
Product family formation based on optimal resource sequence for reconfigurable manufacturing system	72
Blockchain-based digital product passport: design principles and demonstration	72
Industry 4.0 technologies as enablers of collaboration in circular supply chains: a systematic literature review	72
Retailing and ordering strategies for online apparel retailers facing bracketing purchase behaviour	70
A novel approach for predicting Lockout/Tagout safety procedures for smart maintenance strategies	69
Assignment strategy and lane depth in homogeneous multi-deep shuttle-based S/R systems	68
Sustainability meets service procurement: a case study in the ICT service sector	68
A state-of-art review and a simple meta-analysis on deterministic scheduling of diffusion furnaces in semiconductor manufacturing	67
Industrial processes and the smart grid: overcoming the variability of renewables by using built-in process storage and intelligent control strategies	67
Minimising total weighted completion time for semi-online single machine scheduling with known arrivals and bounded processing times	66
A three-step approach for decision support in operational production planning of complex manufacturing systems	65
A graph-based approach for integrating massive data in container terminals with application to scheduling problem	65
Minimum order quantity requirements in the presence of supply disruption risk and retail competition	64
A port-hinterland hub network design method for reefer containers considering time-varying demands and diverse supporting service requirements	64
A joint production-workforce-delivery stochastic planning problem for perishable items	63
Cost-effective dynamic sampling in high dimensional online monitoring with advantage actor-critic	63
Manufacturing strategy in multi-plant networks – a multi-case study on decision-making authority, network capabilities and competitive advantages	63
Identifying profitable reference architectures in an engineer-to-order context	61
A constraint programming approach to a real-world workforce scheduling problem for multi-manned assembly lines with sequence-dependent setup times	61