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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Blood platelet inventory management: Incorporating data-driven demand forecasts	33
DEA-based centralized resource allocation with a balance between efficiency and equity: evidence from healthcare services across 31 provinces in China	28
Road coverage as demand metric for ambulance allocation	18
Classification of patients with chronic disease by activation level using machine learning methods	18
Location planning, resource reallocation and patient assignment during a pandemic considering the needs of ordinary patients	13
Operating room design using agent-based simulation to reduce room obstructions	12
Impact of subsidy policies on the financial status of trauma centers	12
A two-phase method for layout optimization: The case of a referral cancer center in Latin America	12
Incorporating medication therapy management into community pharmacy workflows	11
Pool testing with dilution effects and heterogeneous priors	11
A change-point method for multi-lead electrocardiogram monitoring using weighted multivariate functional principal component analysis	10
Beyond patient-sharing: Comparing physician- and patient-induced networks	10
Patient-to-nurse ratios: Balancing quality, nurse turnover, and cost	10
A clinical decision-support system for dengue based on fuzzy cognitive maps	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
Optimal quality oversight in kidney transplantation and its impact on transplant centers’ waitlist management	8
Applications of data envelopment analysis in acute care hospitals: a systematic literature review, 1984–2022	8
Real-time management of intra-hospital patient transport requests	8
A systematic literature review of predicting patient discharges using statistical methods and machine learning	8
Health care management science for underserved populations	8
What is the value of explicit priority setting for health interventions? A simulation study	8
A chance-constrained network DEA approach for evaluating medical service and quality efficiency: a case study of Taiwan	7
A novel approach to forecast surgery durations using machine learning techniques	7
A decomposition-based approach for multi-level appointment planning and scheduling	7

A tactical multi-week implicit tour scheduling model with applications in healthcare	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	7
A multi-product multi-period stochastic model for a blood supply chain considering blood substitution and demand uncertainty	7
Covid-19 infection risk on US domestic airlines	6
Data envelopment analysis efficiency in the public sector using provider and customer opinion: An application to the Spanish health system	6
A reinforcement learning-based optimal control approach for managing an elective surgery backlog after pandemic disruption	6
Machine learning for optimal test admission in the presence of resource constraints	6
On integrating patient appointment grids and technologist schedules in a radiology center	6
A two-phase approach for the Radiotherapy Scheduling Problem	6
Homogeneity and Best Practice Analyses in Hospital Performance Management: An Analytical Framework	6
Online scheduling using a fixed template: the case of outpatient chemotherapy drug administration	6