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

Article	Citations
Editorial – Acknowledgement of reviewers and editorial board members	65
Managing low–acuity patients in an Emergency Department through simulation–based multiobjective optimization using a neural network metamodel	41
Editorial – Acknowledgement of reviewers and editorial board members	28
Optimizing vaccination campaign strategies considering societal characteristics	27
Meritorious service awards − 2023	26
Generating simple classification rules to predict local surges in COVID-19 hospitalizations	26
Classification of patients with chronic disease by activation level using machine learning methods	22
Intraday dynamic rescheduling under patient no-shows	15
Managing admission and discharge processes in intensive care units	15
Enhancing affordability and profit in a non-cooperative, coordinated, hypothetical pediatric vaccine market via sequential optimization	14
Managing surgical waiting lists through dynamic priority scoring	13
Effectiveness of feedback control and the trade-off between death by COVID-19 and costs of countermeasures	13
Quantile regression forests for individualized surgery scheduling	10
A reinforcement learning approach for the online dynamic home health care scheduling problem	10
A two-stage partial fixing approach for solving the residency block scheduling problem	10
The policy case for designating EMS teams for vulnerable patient populations: Evidence from an intervention in Boston	9
Optimization of the stroke hospital selection strategy and the distribution of endovascular thrombectomy resources	9
Performance measurement of nonhomogeneous Hong Kong hospitals using directional distance functions	9
Optimization-driven framework to understand health care network costs and resource allocation	9
Surgical scheduling via optimization and machine learning with long-tailed data	8
Correction to: Prediction of hospitalization and waiting time within 24 h of emergency department patients with unstructured text data	8
Nurse rostering with fatigue modelling	8
DEA-based centralized resource allocation with a balance between efficiency and equity: evidence from healthcare services across 31 provinces in China	7
Correction to: Repeat SARS-CoV-2 testing models for residential college populations	7
Screening for preclinical Alzheimer’s disease: Deriving optimal policies using a partially observable Markov model	7

Do adjustment costs constrain public healthcare providers’ technical efficiency? Evidence from the New Zealand Public Healthcare System	7
Balancing control and autonomy in master surgery scheduling: Benefits of ICU quotas for recovery units	7
A multi-product multi-period stochastic model for a blood supply chain considering blood substitution and demand uncertainty	6
How hospitals can improve their public quality metrics: a decision-theoretic model	6
Evaluation and implementation of a Just-In-Time bed-assignment strategy to reduce wait times for surgical inpatients	6
A multi-stage stochastic programming approach to epidemic resource allocation with equity considerations	6
Introduction to the special issue: Management Science in the Fight Against Covid-19	6
Correction to: Select, route and schedule: optimizing community paramedicine service delivery with mandatory visits and patient prioritization	6
A two-stage stochastic optimization framework to allocate operating room capacity in publicly-funded hospitals under uncertainty	6
Towards a more efficient healthcare system: Opportunities and challenges caused by hospital closures amid the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Integrated procurement and reprocessing planning for reusable medical devices with a limited shelf life	6
Forecasting to support EMS tactical planning: what is important and what is not	6
Locating trauma centers considering patient safety	6