OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Maritime Economics & Logistics is 8. 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
The impact of Fit for 55 on Ireland’s maritime transport sector and the macroeconomy	59
Smart ports for sustainable shipping: concept and practices revisited through the case study of China’s Tianjin port	48
On improving containership stowage planning from the perspective of an entire voyage	47
Autonomous ships: A study of critical success factors	40
Port city symbiosis: introduction to the special issue	30
Leveraging machine learning and optimization models for enhanced seaport efficiency	30
The influence of energy efficiency and carbon indicators on ship prices: early evidence from the tanker and bulk carrier sectors	30
Identification of shipping schedule cancellations with AIS data: an application to the Europe-Far East route before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	29
Maritime governance after COVID-19: how responses to market developments and environmental challenges lead towards degrowth	29
Port choice using aggregate open data: an application to Colombian port zones	26
Containership size and quay crane productivity: empirical evidence from Busan New Port	23
The state-of-play in maritime economics and logistics research (2017–2023)	23
The Red Sea crisis and chokepoints to trade and international shipping	20
A new exploration in Baltic Dry Index forecasting learning: application of a deep ensemble model	20
Levels of automation in maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS): a fuzzy logic approach	20
Assessing the implementation of governance best practices by Latin American ports	18
Developing a smart port architecture and essential elements in the era of Industry 4.0	17
A hub-location periodic vehicle routing problem in offshore oil and gas logistics	16
Handling modular containers in a physical internet environment	16
A systemic risk framework to improve the resilience of port and supply-chain networks to natural hazards	15
CO2 emissions in a global container shipping network and policy implications	14
A novel hybrid deep-learning framework for medium-term container throughput forecasting: an application to China’s Guangzhou, Qingdao and Shanghai hub ports	13
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Improving supply chain reliability with blockchain technology	12
Joint scheduling of vessels and vessel service providers for enhancing the efficiency of the port call process	12
Container terminal automation: revealing distinctive terminal characteristics and operating parameters	12

On predicting ocean freight rates: a novel hybrid model of combined error evaluation and reinforcement learning	10
A two-stage stochastic optimization model for port infrastructure planning	10
Performance improvements in container terminals through the bottleneck mitigation cycle	9
The impact of specialization, ownership, competition and regulation on efficiency: a case study of Indian seaports	9
The impact of sectoral guidelines on sustainability reporting in ports: the case of the Spanish ports	9
Quality assessment of ESG reporting among listed maritime companies	8
Dynamic volatility spillovers and investor sentiment components across freight-shipping markets	8
Seaport profit analysis and efficient management strategies under stochastic disruptions	8
Shipping ecosystem: concept and policy implications	8
Maritime governance: piloting maritime transport through the stormy seas of climate change	8