OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Production Research is 59. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Viability of intertwined supply networks: extending the supply chain resilience angles towards survivability. A position paper motivated by COVID-19 outbreak	968
Impact of COVID-19 on logistics systems and disruptions in food supply chain	481
The applications of Industry 4.0 technologies in manufacturing context: a systematic literature review	312
Reconfigurable supply chain: the X-network	260
Researchers' perspectives on Industry 4.0: multi-disciplinary analysis and opportunities for operations management	245
Supply Chain Viability and the COVID-19 pandemic: a conceptual and formal generalisation of four major adaptation strategies	215
Information and digital technologies of Industry 4.0 and Lean supply chain management: a systematic literature review	187
Blockchain-based food supply chain traceability: a case study in the dairy sector	181
Effects of green supply chain integration and green innovation on environmental and cost performance	172
Machine learning in manufacturing and industry 4.0 applications	171
Ripple effect and supply chain disruption management: new trends and research directions	164
The potential of emergent disruptive technologies for humanitarian supply chains: the integration of blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and 3D printing	155
Blockchain adoption in operations and supply chain management: empirical evidence from an emerging economy	147
Blockchain in transport and logistics – paradigms and transitions	146
The Industry 5.0 framework: viability-based integration of the resilience, sustainability, and human-centricity perspectives	133
5G in digital supply chain and operations management: fostering flexibility, end-to-end connectivity and real-time visibility through internet-of-everything	127
A systematic literature review of the capabilities and performance metrics of supply chain resilience	124
The complementary effect of lean manufacturing and digitalisation on operational performance	124
Antecedents and consequences of supply chain risk management capabilities: an investigation in the post-coronavirus crisis	116
Balancing price and green quality in presence of consumer environmental awareness: a green supply chain coordination approach	116
Learning to schedule job-shop problems: representation and policy learning using graph neural network and reinforcement learning	115
Barriers to the adoption of blockchain technology in business supply chains: a total interpretive structural modelling (TISM) approach	113
Zero-defect manufacturing the approach for higher manufacturing sustainability in the era of industry 4.0: a position paper	112
One-to-one relationships between Industry 4.0 technologies and Lean Production techniques: a multiple case study	111
Decisions and coordination of green e-commerce supply chain considering green manufacturer's fairness concerns	107

An investigation of information alignment and collaboration as complements to supply chain agility in humanitarian supply chain	103
Role of Big Data Analytics in supply chain management: current trends and future perspectives	101
Multi-objective robust optimisation model for MDVRPLS in refined oil distribution	97
Artificial intelligence (AI) in augmented reality (AR)-assisted manufacturing applications: a review	97
Big Data in operations and supply chain management: a systematic literature review and future research agenda	88
Designing a blockchain enabled supply chain	83
Linkages between big data analytics, circular economy, sustainable supply chain flexibility, and sustainable performance in manufacturing firms	81
The emergence of cognitive digital twin: vision, challenges and opportunities	79
Research opportunities in preparing supply chains of essential goods for future pandemics	78
Industry 4.0 triggered by Lean Thinking: insights from a systematic literature review	78
Building supply-chain resilience: an artificial intelligence-based technique and decision-making framework	78
Reconfigurable manufacturing systems from an optimisation perspective: a focused review of literature	78
Supply chain coordination in the presence of uncertain yield and demand	77
Short- and long-term repeated game behaviours of two parallel supply chains based on government subsidy in the vehicle market	76
Carbon emission reduction and product collection decisions in the closed-loop supply chain with cap-and-trade regulation	76
Evaluating barriers and solutions for social sustainability adoption in multi-tier supply chains	76
The architectural framework of a cyber physical logistics system for digital-twin-based supply chain control	73
Blockchain in food supply chains: a literature review and synthesis analysis of platforms, benefits and challenges	72
Deep reinforcement learning in production systems: a systematic literature review	70
An analysis of strategies for adopting blockchain technology in the fresh product supply chain	69
Coordination of a supply chain with an online platform considering green technology in the blockchain era	68
Game theory-based models in green supply chain management: a review of the literature	66
The impact of flexibility and redundancy on improving supply chain resilience to disruptions	66
Critical success factors influencing artificial intelligence adoption in food supply chains	64
Adaptive scheduling for assembly job shop with uncertain assembly times based on dual Q-learning	63
Green technology adoption in textiles and apparel supply chains with environmental taxes	63
Automated order picking systems and the links between design and performance: a systematic literature review	62
Investigating the link between transaction and computational costs in a blockchain environment	62
A deformable CNN-DLSTM based transfer learning method for fault diagnosis of rolling bearing under multiple working conditions	62
The impact of information sharing on supply chain learning and flexibility performance	61
Digital twin design for real-time monitoring – a case study of die cutting machine	61
Data-driven secure, resilient and sustainable supply chains: gaps, opportunities, and a new generalised data sharing and data monetisation framework	61
Production planning and scheduling in multi-factory production networks: a systematic literature review	60
A discrete artificial bee colony algorithm for distributed hybrid flowshop scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup times	59