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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A safety compliance model for container terminal operations: the roles of the safety climate, non-compliance cost and safety self-efficacy	108
The impact of Brexit on supply chain cost and Ro-Ro traffic at Dover	30
A fuzzy evidential reasoning-based approach for assessing the navigation obstruction risk of shipwrecks in the Yangtze river	27
Skills and competencies for operating maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS): a systematic review and bibliometric analysis	25
Digitalization and new technologies for sustainable business models at the ship–port interface: a bibliometric analysis	24
Pathways towards carbon reduction through technology transition in liner shipping	24
Container terminal automation: assessment of drivers and benefits	23
Statistical arbitrage in the freight options market	23
Quantitative risk analysis for operational transfer processes of maritime pilots	23
Quality design for maritime studies programme in the digital era	22
Green finance in bulk shipping	21
The contribution of Vessel Traffic Services to safe coexistence between automated and conventional vessels	21
Privileged or ordinary carrier: strategic choice in a competitive environment	20
Analysis of safety climate effect on individual safety consciousness creation and safety behaviour improvement in shipping operations	19
Shipping company’s choice of shore power or low sulfur fuel oil under different power structures of maritime supply chain	19
Comparative evaluation of VAE-based monitoring statistics for real-time anomaly detection in AIS data	18
A multi-criteria decision support framework for assessing seaport sustainability planning: the case of Piraeus	18
Evaluation of factors affecting price in second hand ship market: Turkey application with the SWARA method	17
Protection-level decision in the slot allocation of a carrier: trade-offs between advanced and spot market selling	17
A novel Index-based quantification approach for port performance measurement: a case from Indian major ports	16
Exploring information demand in the maritime industry: a Google Trends approach	16
Addressing some of bill of lading issues using the Internet of Things and blockchain technologies: a digitalized conceptual framework	15
Impact of quarantine policies on port network performance and robustness during pandemics: a simulation-based analysis	15
Measuring the dynamic term structure of the FFA market	15
The clustering strategy for stacks allocation in automated container terminals	15

Port congestion and the economics of LPG seaborne transportation	14
Identification of a task-based implementation path for unmanned autonomous ships	14
The determinants of the rate of return on shipping sale-leasebacks*	14
Economic and environmental impacts of scrubbers investments in shipping: a multi-sectoral analysis	14
Feasibility and implications of the Northern sea route choice: the role of commodity prices, in-transit inventory, and alternative operational modes for the oil product tanker market	13
Chartering contracts and financial performance of U.S. listed shipping firms	13
Economics of maritime business	13
The impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on corporate financial performance: an empirical study on shipping	12
Effects of COVID-19 on passenger shipping activities and emissions: empirical analysis of passenger ships in Danish waters	12
Identifying port congestion and evaluating its impact on maritime logistics	12
Determinants of digital transformation in container shipping lines: a theory driven approach	12
Blockchain adoption in the maritime industry: empirical evidence from the technological-organizational-environmental framework	12
Data-Driven Asset Health Index – an application to evaluate Quay Cranes in container ports	11
Container liner shipping schedule optimization with shipper selection behavior considered	11
Identify determinants of container ship size investment choice	11
Role of carbon emission linked financial leasing in shipping decarbonization	11
Strategic planning for multimodal transportation in ports	10
Investigating optimal green port investment strategies considering location-based externalities	10
A Bayesian network-based TOPSIS framework to dynamically control the risk of maritime piracy	10
Assessment of container terminals competitiveness in the Brazilian market: a cluster analysis	10
Special issue on ‘Smart maritime logistics supported by advanced technologies’	10
Revenue efficiency and its drivers in the cruise industry	10
Shipping network design–infrastructure investment joint optimization model: a case study of West Africa	10
Maritime piracy and armed robbery analysis in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore through the utilization of natural language processing	10
What’s inside the box? Approximating containerised trade flows based on trade commodity values	10
Dynamic tugboat scheduling for container ports	10
Dual-channel ticketing and pricing strategies in cruise revenue management	9
Subsidy strategy design for shore power utilization and promotion	9
Structure, characteristics and connectivity analysis of the Asian-Australasian cruise shipping network	9
Evaluating the impact of COVID-19 on capesize and panamax sectors: the method of empirical mode decomposition	9
Analysis of maritime transportation research capability: authors, affiliations, and nationalities	9
Analysis and prediction of ship energy efficiency based on the MRV system	9
Mismatch between volume and value: a new perspective on the significance of global ports	9
Competitiveness throughout the seaport-hinterland: a container shipping analysis	9
The U.S. shipbuilding and repair industry’s considerations of coastal hazards resilience - a baseline survey	8
Impact of Sulphur Emission Control Areas on port state control’s inspection outcome	8
M&As and determinants of financial multiples in shipping: the European ro-pax and ferry market	8
A novel method of assessing port resilience and its positive ramifications	8
Optimizing container relocation operations by using deep reinforcement learning	8
Modelling container ship transport flow: an application to alternative sea routes between Northeast Asia and Northwest Europe	7
Quantitative modelling of shipping freight rates: developments in the past 20 years	7
Effective analysis of remote ship inspection in Asia-Pacific region and its impact on shipping trade under COVID-19	7
Acknowledgement to reviewers 2023	7
Assessment of criteria of ship classification societies	7
Articulating intermodal chains through short-sea shipping: a method for assessing the performance of East African ports	7
Identifying the characteristics of China’s maritime trading partners on the basis of bilateral shipping connectivity: a cluster analysis	7
Road accident risk analysis of at- and near-port areas reflecting regional heterogeneous characteristics	7
Which ports differ in the copycat effectiveness of the hinterland strategy? Based on port-hinterland distance correlation	7
Generating certification evidence for the certification of collision avoidance in autonomous surface vessels	7
Potential demand for coastal shipping in Queensland: a behavioural econometric analysis	7

A Simulation Based Meta-heuristic Approach for the Inbound Container Housekeeping Problem in the Automated Container Terminals	7
Deep learning-based estimation of truck Turn Around Time at container port	7
Fuel consumption cost prediction model for ro-ro carriers: a machine learning-based application	6
Green port management practices for sustainable port operations: a multi method study of Asian ports	6
Adoption of socially interactive technologies for shipping services	6
Evaluation of navigation capacity in the Northeast Arctic passage: evidence from multiple factors	6
Logistics strategy simulation of second-ranked ports on the basis of Japan’s port reforms: a case study of Hakata Port	6
Shore power management for green shipping under international river transportation	6
What moves shipping markets?: A variance decomposition of price–charter ratios	6
Investment obstacles of main countries situated along the 21st century Maritime Silk Road – a perspective of risk assessment	6
A deep learning approach for port congestion estimation and prediction	6
Integrated scheduling of yard cranes, external trucks, and internal trucks in maritime container terminal operation	6
A methodology to model the evolution of system resilience for Arctic shipping from the perspective of complexity	6
Implications of Arctic shipping emissions for marine environment	6
Determinants and stressors of seafarers’ job satisfaction: evidence from a global survey	6
Container terminal competition and cooperation considering emission tax	6
Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing for assessing maritime transport: a comprehensive literature review	6
The impact of COVID-19 on shipping freights: asymmetric multifractality analysis	5
Efficiency analysis of inland waterway locks in maritime transportation systems: practical, economic and policy implications	5
Port investment along the Maritime Silk Road considering mutual selections of the industries planned for transfer and recipient countries with location advantage	5
Spatial evolution model of port group hinterland from the perspective of intermodal transport	5
Shipping stocks as lotteries	5
A quantitative liability risk assessment of oil spills in oil ports: the case of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area	5
Shipping companies’ choice of low sulfur fuel oil with government subsidy and different maritime supply chain power structures	5
Exploration of machine learning methods for maritime risk predictions	5
Developing and demonstrating a maturity model for smart ports	5
Analysis and forecasting of the dry bulk shipping market: structural VAR models using FFA-spot-time charter rates	5
Capacity sharing within a shipping alliance: firm optimization and welfare analysis	5
An investigation into the forces shaping the evolution of global shipping alliances	5
The spatial evolution and optimization of supply channels for marine products consumed in China	5
Dynamic evolution of green total factor productivity growth of China’s coastal ports	5
Analysis of fleet deployment in the international container shipping market using simultaneous equations modelling	5
An overview of maritime logistics: trends and research agenda	4
Round-trip multimodal transportation routes planning for foldable vehicle racks	4
Maritime safety through multi-source data fusion: an AdaBoost-based approach for predictive ship detention by port state control	4
The impact and importance of serious games in maritime education: an empirical application	4
Understanding the Baltic Dry Index (BDI): an explainable decomposition approach	4
Multi-objective intermodal transportation planning with real-life application	4
A port performance measurement approach using a sustainability balanced scorecard based on stakeholders’ expectations	4
Reconstructing and assessing global maritime transport network: based on the Port Cargo Composite Transport index	4
A mixed method for determination of cut-off dates in liner shipping	4
Women seafarers in Taiwan: policies, benefits, challenges, and bias in the data	4
An examination of the pirate cycle theory: insights from modern piracy dynamics	4
Policy-oriented analysis on the navigational rights of unmanned merchant ships	4
Investigating maritime traffic routes: integrating AIS data and topographic statistics	4
A trip-level multi-dimensional approach for the operational efficiency analysis of container vessel trips based on automatic identification system data	4
Exploring the determinants of government ownership in port public-private partnerships	4
Agency encroachment and information sharing: cooperation and competition in freight forwarding market	4
Impact of imputation methods for ship technical parameters on emission estimations in ports	3
Coordinated approaches for port state control inspection planning	3
Emissions from container vessels in the port of Singapore	3
The daily port and shoreline emission inventory model	3
Priority analysis of port investment along the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road region: the case of Southeast Asia	3
Does containerisation reduce the constraints imposed by distance in seaborne trade?	3
Talk is cheap; Show me the code: managing the sustainable performance of shipping firms through big data analytics	3
Building a cruise industry resilience hierarchical structure for sustainable cruise port cities	3
Shipping market forecasting by forecast combination mechanism	3
Revealing the true navigability of the Northern Sea Route from ice conditions and weather observations	3
The motives for shipping asset securitisation: sale-leaseback transactions in the shipping industry	3
Bibliometric analysis and literature review on maritime transport resilience and its associated impacts on trade	3
The effects of vertical integration and carbon tax on supply chain performance and economic welfare in the maritime industry	3
Deciphering spatial heterogeneity of maritime accidents considering impact scale variations	3
Economic and geopolitical uncertainty vs energy variables: exploring connectedness in the LNG freight market	3
Identification of China’s strategic transport passages in the context of the Belt and Road initiative	3
A study on the industrial symbiosis in maritime cluster considering value chain and life cycle – case of Dalian, China	3
Agglomeration effects or port-related benefits? (Re)Location patterns of basic maritime industries: the case of Dalian City, China	3
A bi-objective programming model for loading finished-vehicles in containers with adjustable brackets	3