OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Health Care Management Science is 6. 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
DEA-based centralized resource allocation with a balance between efficiency and equity: evidence from healthcare services across 31 provinces in China	31
Classification of patients with chronic disease by activation level using machine learning methods	29
Blood platelet inventory management: Incorporating data-driven demand forecasts	28
Road coverage as demand metric for ambulance allocation	20
Location planning, resource reallocation and patient assignment during a pandemic considering the needs of ordinary patients	18
Impact of subsidy policies on the financial status of trauma centers	17
Operating room design using agent-based simulation to reduce room obstructions	14
A two-phase method for layout optimization: The case of a referral cancer center in Latin America	13
Optimizing diabetes screening frequencies for at-risk groups	12
A clinical decision-support system for dengue based on fuzzy cognitive maps	11
Pool testing with dilution effects and heterogeneous priors	11
Incorporating medication therapy management into community pharmacy workflows	11
Patient-to-nurse ratios: Balancing quality, nurse turnover, and cost	10
A two-stage robust optimization approach for the master surgical schedule problem under uncertainty considering downstream resources	10
Beyond patient-sharing: Comparing physician- and patient-induced networks	10
A change-point method for multi-lead electrocardiogram monitoring using weighted multivariate functional principal component analysis	10
Heterogeneous donor circles for fair liver transplant allocation	9
Excess deaths by sex and Age Group in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	9
Health care management science for underserved populations	9
Dynamic multistage scheduling for patient-centered care plans	9
What is the value of explicit priority setting for health interventions? A simulation study	8
A systematic literature review of predicting patient discharges using statistical methods and machine learning	8
Optimal quality oversight in kidney transplantation and its impact on transplant centers’ waitlist management	8
A novel approach to forecast surgery durations using machine learning techniques	7
Identification of predictors and model for predicting prolonged length of stay in dengue patients	7

A tactical multi-week implicit tour scheduling model with applications in healthcare	7
Applications of data envelopment analysis in acute care hospitals: a systematic literature review, 1984–2022	7
Real-time management of intra-hospital patient transport requests	7
A multi-product multi-period stochastic model for a blood supply chain considering blood substitution and demand uncertainty	7
A study of “left against medical advice” emergency department patients: an optimized explainable artificial intelligence framework	7
Visualisation of Data Envelopment Analysis in primary health services	6
A reinforcement learning-based optimal control approach for managing an elective surgery backlog after pandemic disruption	6
A two-phase approach for the Radiotherapy Scheduling Problem	6
Covid-19 infection risk on US domestic airlines	6
A decomposition-based approach for multi-level appointment planning and scheduling	6
Homogeneity and Best Practice Analyses in Hospital Performance Management: An Analytical Framework	6
A chance-constrained network DEA approach for evaluating medical service and quality efficiency: a case study of Taiwan	6
Machine learning for optimal test admission in the presence of resource constraints	6
Data envelopment analysis efficiency in the public sector using provider and customer opinion: An application to the Spanish health system	6