OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Production Research is 60. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
An overview on human-centred technologies, measurements and optimisation in assembly systems	335
Rolling horizon policies for multi-stage stochastic assemble-to-order problems	335
A hybrid LSTM method for forecasting demands of medical items in humanitarian operations	201
Catastrophe insurance and flexible planning for supply chain disruption management: a stochastic simulation case study	180
Attractiveness factors in retail category space location-allocation problem	166
An intelligent matching recommendation algorithm for a manufacturing capacity sharing platform with fairness concerns	165
Selecting industrial IoT Platform for digital servitisation: a framework integrating platform leverage practices and cloud HBWM-TOPSIS approach	144
Special issue on collaborative production and maintenance in the environment of big data and industry 4.0	143
Supply chain cybersecurity investments with interdependent risks under different information exchange modes	143
Mathematical modelling of carbon emissions and process parameters optimisation for laser welding cell	143
Optimal extended warranty pricing and retailing strategies in a closed-loop supply chain	139
Opportunistic maintenance optimisation for offshore wind farm with considering random wind speed	128
Quantitative insights into the integrated push and pull production problem for lean supply chain planning 4.0	122
Energy-efficient production control of a make-to-stock system with buffer- and time-based policies	120
An analytical method for investigating multi-tier sustainable supply chains: simplifying the complex	117
CONWIP Redux: reflections on 30 years of development and implementation	101
Strategic decision-making for sustainable production and distribution in automotive industry: a machine learning enabled dynamic multi-objective optimisation	101
A capacity matching model in a collaborative urban public transport system: integrating passenger and freight transportation	98
Building knowledge beyond our experience: integrating sustainable development goals into IJPR’s research future	91
Consumer service level-oriented resilience optimisation for e-commerce supply chain considering hybrid strategies with blockchain adoption	91
Human-centred AI in industry 5.0: a systematic review	85
IoT-based milk-run routing for manufacturing system: an application case in an automotive company	85
Prioritizing adoption barriers of platforms based on blockchain technology from balanced scorecard perspectives in healthcare industry: a structural approach	85
Semantic-aware event link reasoning over industrial knowledge graph embedding time series data	83
Assessing the sustainability of cloud computing service providers for Industry 4.0: a state-of-the-art analytical approach	83

Knowledge obstacles when transitioning towards circular economy: an industrial intra-organisational perspective	81
Toward efficient waste electric vehicle battery recycling via auction-based market trading mechanisms	81
The influence of carbon emission reduction instruments on blockchain technology adoption in recycling batteries of the new energy vehicles	81
A reinforcement learning-based approach for solving multi-agent job shop scheduling problem	80
A multi-agent resource bidding algorithm for order acceptance and assembly job shop scheduling	79
A reinforcement learning driven two-stage evolutionary optimisation for hybrid seru system scheduling with worker transfer	77
A hybrid approach of case-based reasoning and process reasoning to typical parts grinding process intelligent decision	77
Implementation of digital twins in the food supply chain: a review and conceptual framework	77
The paradigm shift of mass customisation research	77
Performance analysis and optimisation of Bernoulli serial production lines with dynamic real-time bottleneck identification and mitigation	75
Industry 4.0 technologies as enablers of collaboration in circular supply chains: a systematic literature review	75
A multisource domain adaptation method for quality prediction in small-batch production systems	73
A quantitative approach to resilience in manufacturing systems	72
Function block-enabled operation planning and machine control in Cloud-DPP	72
Product family formation based on optimal resource sequence for reconfigurable manufacturing system	71
A hybrid learning-based meta-heuristic algorithm for scheduling of an additive manufacturing system consisting of parallel SLM machines	71
Identifying profitable reference architectures in an engineer-to-order context	70
AI-driven dynamic pricing for high-value assets in manufacturing and services: optimizing finite horizon sales with demand sensitivity	70
Stochastic modelling and analysis of a deteriorating serial production–inventory network	70
Land layout optimisation for virtual land sales in the metaverse: two-dimensional assortment problem	69
Dynamic scheduling in make-to-stock production systems with setup times and random breakdowns: performance analysis and improved policies	68
Improved formulations of the joint order batching and picker routing problem	67
Blockchain-based digital product passport: design principles and demonstration	66
The optimisation research of Blockchain application in the financial institution-dominated supply chain finance system	66
Manufacturing strategy in multi-plant networks – a multi-case study on decision-making authority, network capabilities and competitive advantages	65
An efficient and adaptive design of reinforcement learning environment to solve job shop scheduling problem with soft actor-critic algorithm	64
A constraint programming approach to a real-world workforce scheduling problem for multi-manned assembly lines with sequence-dependent setup times	64
Enhancing supply chain flows through blockchain: a comprehensive literature review	64
A joint production-workforce-delivery stochastic planning problem for perishable items	64
Performance analysis of clustering methods for balanced multi-robot task allocations	64
Retailing and ordering strategies for online apparel retailers facing bracketing purchase behaviour	62
Enabling industrial internet of things-based digital servitization in smart production logistics	62
Performance optimisation of pick and transport robot in a picker to parts order picking system: a human-centric approach	61
Deep reinforcement learning for solving steelmaking-continuous casting scheduling problems under time-of-use tariffs	61
A novel approach for predicting Lockout/Tagout safety procedures for smart maintenance strategies	61
A concise guide to scheduling with learning and deteriorating effects	60