OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Production Research is 54. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
An analytical method for investigating multi-tier sustainable supply chains: simplifying the complex	273
Optimal choice of power battery joint recycling strategy for electric vehicle manufacturers under a deposit-refund system	257
A simulation-based optimisation framework for process plan generation in reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMSs) in an uncertain environment	239
Attractiveness factors in retail category space location-allocation problem	171
Equity financing for carbon emission reduction supported by platform retailer: bane or boon for supplier encroachment?	157
AI-enhanced robust method for integrated healthcare resource pre-positioning and patient scheduling	131
Community logistics: a dynamic strategy for facilitating immediate parcel delivery to smart lockers	122
Towards understanding dynamic design change propagation in complex product development via complex network approach	122
Mathematical modelling of carbon emissions and process parameters optimisation for laser welding cell	120
Improving the decision-making process by considering supply uncertainty – a case study in the forest value chain	117
Towards product evolution: from the perspective of user knowledge	117
Distributed assembly shop scheduling problem for complex products considering multiskilled worker assignment and transportation time	111
Redeploying excess inventories with lateral and reverse transshipments	110
Human-centred AI in industry 5.0: a systematic review	107
Demand forecasting in supply chains: a review of aggregation and hierarchical approaches	106
Location planning of electric vehicle charging station with users’ preferences and waiting time: multi-objective bi-level programming model and HNSGA-II algorithm	103
Robust optimization model for medical staff rebalancing problem with data contamination during COVID-19 pandemic	96
Production planning with flexible manufacturing systems under demand uncertainty	94
Optimal pricing and capacity management in service systems with delay-sensitive mixed-risk customers	92
Is it beneficial to invest in flexible capacity for hybrid remanufacturing?	91
A novel feature selection for evolving compact dispatching rules using genetic programming for dynamic job shop scheduling	90
Optimal extended warranty pricing and retailing strategies in a closed-loop supply chain	84
Incorporating car-sequencing rules in the planning of mixed-model assembly lines	80
Integration strategies of luxury rental operations: is it wise to operate with the manufacturer or co-operate with the competitor?	79
The supply chain effects on order strategy of cross-shareholdings	79

Effects of shared farms on the agricultural supply chain	75
An intelligent matching recommendation algorithm for a manufacturing capacity sharing platform with fairness concerns	73
Financing a service-oriented manufacturer when facing the risk of bankruptcy	71
Sequencing two classes of jobs on a machine with an external no-idle constraint	70
A literature review and design methodology for digital twins in the era of zero defect manufacturing	69
Supply chain cybersecurity investments with interdependent risks under different information exchange modes	68
A multi-domain mixture density network for tool wear prediction under multiple machining conditions	68
Research on balancing and sequencing problems of flexible mixed model assembly lines with alternative precedence relations	67
A capacitated lot-sizing problem in the industrial fashion sector under uncertainty: a conditional value-at-risk framework	66
A relax-and-fix method for clothes inventory balancing scheduling problem	66
A selection procedure for the design of mixed-model assembly systems considering walking workers and fixed workers	66
A sequential cross-product knowledge accumulation, extraction and transfer framework for machine learning-based production process modelling	65
Two-stage risk-averse stochastic programming approach for multi-item single source ordering problem: CVaR minimisation with transportation cost	65
Semiparametric control schemes for dynamically monitoring profiles with count data and arbitrary design	63
Spatio-temporal synchronisation for human-cyber-physical assembly workstation 4.0 systems	63
Computer-aided process planning system for laser forming: from CAD to part	63
Operation twins: production-intralogistics synchronisation in Industry 4.0	63
Production systems with cycle overrun: modelling, analysis, improvability and bottlenecks	62
Hierarchical RNN-based framework for throughput prediction in automotive production systems	61
Optimal models for sustainable supply chain finance: evidence from electric vehicle industry	60
Integrated scheduling of distributed service resources for complex equipment considering multiple on-site MRO tasks	60
Practical factors in order picking planning: state-of-the-art classification and review	59
On solving the cross-dock door assignment problem	58
A distribution-free-based approach for stochastic food closed-loop supply chain	58
Strategic decision-making for sustainable production and distribution in automotive industry: a machine learning enabled dynamic multi-objective optimisation	58
A decomposition and coordination method for optimising ( Q , S ) policies in a two-echelon distribution	58
Application of artificial intelligence to enhance manufacturing quality and zero-defect using CRISP-DM framework	58
Dual cycle time modelling and design optimisation for the bidirectional flow-rack AS/RS	56
Rolling horizon policies for multi-stage stochastic assemble-to-order problems	56
An overview on human-centred technologies, measurements and optimisation in assembly systems	54
A multi-agent resource bidding algorithm for order acceptance and assembly job shop scheduling	54
Deep learning and sequence mining for manufacturing process and sequence selection	54