OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of IMA Journal of Management Mathematics is 1. 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
Setting priorities for police operations by using a multicriteria decision approach with partial information	33
Staying positive: challenges and solutions in using pure multiplicative ETS models	22
Optimal portfolio execution with a Markov chain approximation approach	14
Optimal pricing and budget decisions in public health systems with delay sensitive patients	12
Planning and scheduling of a parallel-machine production system subject to disruptions and physical distancing	11
Supply chain network equilibrium with outsourcing for fresh agricultural products under stochastic demands	11
Sustainability performance of food supply chains with internal and external evaluation perspectives	10
Vendor managed inventory under price-and-stock-dependent demand, buyer’s space limitations and preservation investment	10
Solving non-linear optimization problems by a trajectory approach	9
Straight assembly line balancing by workload smoothing: new results	8
Modelling player ratings in One Day International cricket using the Modified Duckworth-Lewis method	8
Control and optimization of workforce outsourcing decisions	7
Last mile logistics: Research trends and needs	7
Supply chain pricing strategies for advance selling with a deposit	6
Probabilistic forecasting of daily COVID-19 admissions using machine learning	5
Optimal reinsurance contract and investment strategy for multiple competitive-cooperative insurers and a reinsurer	5
Competitive balance measures and the uncertainty of outcome hypothesis in European football	5
Management mathematics in sport—moneyball and soccer	5
New control variates for pricing basket options	4
Portfolio rebalancing based on time series momentum and downside risk	4
An inverse data envelopment analysis model to consider ratio data and preferences of decision-makers	4
On head-to-head results as tie-breaker and consequent opportunities for collusion	4
Misaligned incentives in sports: a mathematical analysis of the post-2024 UEFA Champions League qualification	4
A dynamic overflow triage model in an outpatient queuing system	4
Optimal inspection policy for a second-hand product with a two-dimensional warranty	4

Improving efficiency evaluation in the presence of ratio data: inverse non-radial Enhanced Russell Models	4
Investigating prospective gains from mergers in the agricultural sector through Inverse DEA	3
Coordination of dual-channel supply chains with uncertain demand information	3
On skill and chance in sport	3
Residual life modeling and maintenance planning for repairable systems	3
Anti-corruption measures in large-scale construction projects	3
Can continuous-time portfolio optimization really be applied?	2
Cross-efficiency aggregation by ordered visibility graph averaging: method, and application in portfolio selection	2
Assessing environmental and operational efficiencies: a multi-objective optimization problem in a two-stage network data envelopment analysis	2
The ‘Inter-AI Period’: how management mathematics can help shape an AI-enabled future	2
Optimizing healthcare queues: a case study on chronic respiratory illness	2
Income growth, forecasting and stock valuation	2
Causal Analysis of Tactics in Soccer: The Case of Throw-ins	2
A systematic literature review on solution approaches for the index tracking problem	2
Electric vehicle manufacturers’ decisions on investing in carbon-reduction technology under government subsidy: a Cournot game model	1
Time-consistent investment and reinsurance strategies under thinning-dependence structure	1
The prescriptive nature of market timing and predictive portfolios	1
On the use of machine learning in supply chain management: a systematic review	1
Autonomous navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for border patrolling: a stochastic framework	1
Robust portfolio choice under the 4/2 stochastic volatility model	1
A new Malmquist productivity index with an application to commercial banks	1
Enhancing pairwise comparisons for multi-criteria decision making: application to healthcare waste management	1
Planning maintenance when resources are limited: a study of periodic opportunistic replacement	1
Exposing gender bias in the mathematics and operational research professions	1
A flexible time-to-build model of supply chain disruptions	1
Process mean selection and price differentiation in an imperfectly segmented market for a risk-averse firm	1
An advanced acceptance reliability sampling plan for heterogeneous items subject to external shocks	1
A stochastic volatility model for the valuation of temperature derivatives	1
Management, mathematics, and management-mathematics: strengthening the link in a turbulent post-pandemic world	1
New saving-based formulae for the truck–drone routing problem	1
Correction to: Modelling tactical changes in association football using a Markov game	1
Optimal reinsurance pricing, risk sharing and investment strategies in a joint reinsurer-insurer framework	1
The strategic use of blockchain technology to anti-counterfeiting in the luxury goods market	1
Forecasting the effective reproduction number during a pandemic: COVID-19 R t forecasts, governmental decisions and economic implications	1
On the delayed worse-than-minimal repair model and its application to preventive replacement	1
The cost of delay as risk measure in target-based multi-period portfolio selection models	1
Inverse DEA-R models for merger analysis with negative data	1
Mathematical modelling of mission-abort policies: a review	1
Eco-efficiency considering NetZero and data envelopment analysis: a critical literature review	1
Installation of renewable capacities to meet energy demand and emission constraints under uncertainty	1
The economic production quantity model with optimal single sampling inspection	1