OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Maritime Policy & Management is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of COVID-19 on passenger shipping activities and emissions: empirical analysis of passenger ships in Danish waters	39
Impact of quarantine policies on port network performance and robustness during pandemics: a simulation-based analysis	38
Quality design for maritime studies programme in the digital era	36
How does port intelligence impact the performance of port firms? – Empirical evidence from listed port firms in China	32
Understanding the determinants of fleet size optimization in dry bulk shipping: insights from a systematic literature review and Delphi study	30
Evaluating the impact of COVID-19 on capesize and panamax sectors: the method of empirical mode decomposition	28
Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing for assessing maritime transport: a comprehensive literature review	26
Green port management practices for sustainable port operations: a multi method study of Asian ports	26
Deciphering spatial heterogeneity of maritime accidents considering impact scale variations	25
A deep learning approach for port congestion estimation and prediction	25
Impact of the new Maritime Silk Road on the resilience of major container ports	22
Building a cruise industry resilience hierarchical structure for sustainable cruise port cities	21
Analysis of fleet deployment in the international container shipping market using simultaneous equations modelling	20
Analysis and forecasting of the dry bulk shipping market: structural VAR models using FFA-spot-time charter rates	20
Decarbonized tourism travel mode: design of river-sea connecting cruise products considering the cumulative utility of tourist experience	19
Reconstructing and assessing global maritime transport network: based on the Port Cargo Composite Transport index	19
Implications of Arctic shipping emissions for marine environment	18
Adoption of socially interactive technologies for shipping services	18
Digital transformation in container shipping: evaluation of factors and strategies from a firm-based perspective	17
Knowledge mapping of seafarers’ health research: a bibliometric analysis	17
Spatial-temporal heterogeneity of global ports resilience under Pandemic: a case study of COVID-19	16
A safety risk assessment for ship boarding parties from fuzzy Bayesian networks perspective	16
Developing an early warning system for the shipping industry in Korea using two approaches	16
Research on the spatial distribution and influencing factors of the maritime services: based on data from Chinese enterprises	15
A statistical analysis-based Bayesian Network model for assessment of mobbing acts on ships	15

Knowledge mapping of port logistics in the recent 20 Years: a bibliometric analysis via CiteSpace	15
A system dynamics-based approach for risk analysis of waterway transportation in a mixed traffic environment	14
The impact of seaport infrastructure efficiency on foreign direct investment in Africa	14
Disentangling demand and supply shocks in the shipping freight market: their impact on shipping investments	14
Acknowledgement to reviewers 2022	13
Editorial: Special issue on “Green Port and Maritime Shipping”	13
Effect of online quotation platform on container shipping orders	12
The competitiveness of mega liner shipping companies on Eurasia routes: consider the impact of the CR-Express services	12
Taking maritime shipping agreements out of the box	11
Port co-opetition: revisited after 20 years	11
Protection-level decision in the slot allocation of a carrier: trade-offs between advanced and spot market selling	11
Models for intra-port container terminal cooperation based on volume and vessel transfer	11
Green finance in bulk shipping	11
Statistical arbitrage in the freight options market	11
Resilience of regional container port network: based on projection correlation and dynamic spatial Markov Chain	11
A data-driven AcciMap-BN model for risk factor analysis of collisions between merchant ships and fishing vessels	11
Effective analysis of remote ship inspection in Asia-Pacific region and its impact on shipping trade under COVID-19	10
Quantitative modelling of shipping freight rates: developments in the past 20 years	10
Mismatch between volume and value: a new perspective on the significance of global ports	10
Subsidy strategy design for shore power utilization and promotion	10
Understanding the Baltic Dry Index (BDI): an explainable decomposition approach	10
Deep learning-based estimation of truck Turn Around Time at container port	10
A methodology to model the evolution of system resilience for Arctic shipping from the perspective of complexity	10
A trip-level multi-dimensional approach for the operational efficiency analysis of container vessel trips based on automatic identification system data	10
Measurement of inland port spatial relationship: a case study of Yangtze River inland ports	9
Bibliometric analysis and literature review on maritime transport resilience and its associated impacts on trade	9
Capacity sharing within a shipping alliance: firm optimization and welfare analysis	9
Prediction of container port congestion status and its impact on ship’s time in port based on AIS data	9
Optimal subsidy design for energy generation in ship berthing	9
Optimum cooperation strategy for different cooperative motivations: a case study of the Kobe and Osaka ports	9
The impact and importance of serious games in maritime education: an empirical application	9
Alignment of port policy to the context of the Physical Internet	9
Impact of anti-tax avoidance rules on factors influencing the choice of registry for the self-owned vessels of the shipping lines	9
Spatial evolution model of port group hinterland from the perspective of intermodal transport	9
Port strategy and performance: empirical evidence from major container ports and implications for role of data analytics	8
Predictive analysis of fuel oil consumption in vessels: interpretable modelling with emphasis on load conditions	8
A study on the assessment of risk management performance in maritime start-ups: evidence from China	8
Investment decision analysis of shipping desulfurization project based on a fuzzy real option approach	8
An environmental management system in seaports: evidence from Malaysia	8
Multilevel analysis of bulk shipping fleet productivity: a big data approach	8
A new wine in new wineskins: unfolding dimension of port-hinterland connectivity and market shares	8
Understanding data governance requirements in IoT adoption for smart ports – a gap analysis	7
Controlling marine greenhouse gas emissions in Hong Kong: policy considerations	7
Maritime services location decisions—an empirical analysis and implications	7
Blockchain implementation in the maritime industry: critical success factors and strategy formulation	7
Dividend payments and dividend smoothing in shipping companies	7
Analysis of transportation CO ₂ emission efficiency in the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China	7
Semi-supervised learning for multi-target regression in ship risk prediction	6
Determinants of digital transformation in container shipping lines: a theory driven approach	6
Determinants and stressors of seafarers’ job satisfaction: evidence from a global survey	6

A Bayesian network-based TOPSIS framework to dynamically control the risk of maritime piracy	6
Multi-objective intermodal transportation planning with real-life application	6
The best practices of port sustainable development: a case study in Korea	6
Towards intuitive visualisation goals for the operation optimisation of automated container terminal based on digital twin technology	6
Data-Driven Asset Health Index – an application to evaluate Quay Cranes in container ports	6
Exploring information demand in the maritime industry: a Google Trends approach	6
Which ports differ in the copycat effectiveness of the hinterland strategy? Based on port-hinterland distance correlation	6
An examination of the pirate cycle theory: insights from modern piracy dynamics	6
Logistics strategy simulation of second-ranked ports on the basis of Japan’s port reforms: a case study of Hakata Port	6
A multi-criteria decision support framework for assessing seaport sustainability planning: the case of Piraeus	6
Digitalisation in RoPax ports: a categorisation framework for digital solutions	6
Policy frameworks for green innovation in maritime trade and sustainable development	6
Investigating optimal green port investment strategies considering location-based externalities	6
Potential demand for coastal shipping in Queensland: a behavioural econometric analysis	6
Dynamic evolution of green total factor productivity growth of China’s coastal ports	6
Developing a resilience index for safer and more resilient arctic shipping	6
The motives for shipping asset securitisation: sale-leaseback transactions in the shipping industry	5
A bibliometric study based on seafarers’ psychological issues: hotspots research and future agenda	5
Blockchain application in maritime supply chain: a systematic literature review and conceptual framework	5
Dynamic interdependence and volatility spillovers across bunker fuel markets and shipping freight markets	5
Impact of imputation methods for ship technical parameters on emission estimations in ports	5
Correction	5
The daily port and shoreline emission inventory model	5
Industry investor sentiment in the global shipping industry	5
Emissions from container vessels in the port of Singapore	5
Addressing fairness concerns in shipping market: a bilateral contract mechanism	5
Optimizing the portfolio of smart technologies to maximize port carbon emission efficiency: a configurational theory approach	5
Special issue on ‘Logistics and maritime systems for global trade’	5
Special issue on “transitions and revolutions; preparing for future challenges of the maritime industry”	4
Global Strategic Alliances in container liner shipping: knowledge sharing and decision-making through contractual governance structures	4
Optimising the resilience of shipping networks to climate vulnerability	4
Comparative evaluation of VAE-based monitoring statistics for real-time anomaly detection in AIS data	4
The impact of Brexit on supply chain cost and Ro-Ro traffic at Dover	4
Second-hand vessel valuation: an extreme gradient boosting approach	4
Empty container repositioning problem using a reinforcement learning framework with multi-weight adaptive reward function	4
Special Issue on ‘Environment and Sustainability’	4
Determinants of vessels’ fixtures allocation over contracts of different duration and global economic uncertainty	4
Privileged or ordinary carrier: strategic choice in a competitive environment	4
The impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on corporate financial performance: an empirical study on shipping	4
A novel Index-based quantification approach for port performance measurement: a case from Indian major ports	4
Economic and environmental feasibility of Northern Sea Route for container service: impact by ice besetting events	4
Are output disaggregation and energy variables key when measuring container terminal efficiency?	4
Trade strategy with the countries along the Ice Silk Road: a Rabin model-based perspective	4
The determinants of the rate of return on shipping sale-leasebacks*	4
Container terminal automation: assessment of drivers and benefits	4
Identifying port congestion and evaluating its impact on maritime logistics	4
The impact of COVID-19 on shipping freights: asymmetric multifractality analysis	3
Analysis of maritime transportation research capability: authors, affiliations, and nationalities	3
A novel method of assessing port resilience and its positive ramifications	3
Shore power management for green shipping under international river transportation	3
Exploration of machine learning methods for maritime risk predictions	3
Traffic and freight flow predictions and effects of capacity expansion in the urban–port road interface: The case of a port city in Poland	3
Measuring the dynamic term structure of the FFA market	3
Integrated scheduling of yard cranes, external trucks, and internal trucks in maritime container terminal operation	3
Women seafarers in Taiwan: policies, benefits, challenges, and bias in the data	3
A Systematic review on human-centred maritime operations analytics involving psychophysiological data	3
A mixed method for determination of cut-off dates in liner shipping	3
State of play in technology and legal framework of alternative marine fuels and renewable energy systems: a bibliometric analysis	3
Acknowledgement to reviewers 2023	3
Assessment of criteria of ship classification societies	3
Efficiency analysis of inland waterway locks in maritime transportation systems: practical, economic and policy implications	3
Maritime safety through multi-source data fusion: an AdaBoost-based approach for predictive ship detention by port state control	3
Manufacturing diffusion trends from the perspective of trade network: the belt vs. the road	3
Debt conservatism in shipping: determinants and investment implications	3