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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring modularity's effects on process efficiency in single assembly line balancing	691
Special issue on collaborative production and maintenance in the environment of big data and industry 4.0	372
Αn AI-driven approach to assess sentiments and interpret context in a critical mineral supply chain	287
Resilient agricultural biomass supply chain network design with uncertain disruptions: a data-driven globalised robust optimisation approach	265
A decision support framework on simulation fidelity for transferable and autonomously optimised swarm behaviour	262
IoT-based milk-run routing for manufacturing system: an application case in an automotive company	259
Infrastructure planning of intra-city battery swapping stations considering demand uncertainty: a multi-pattern based distributionally robust approach	223
The role of the Industry 4.0 technologies for Industry 5.0 development in small and medium enterprises	219
Energy-efficient production control of a make-to-stock system with buffer- and time-based policies	187
A multi-level modelling approach for magnesium-carbon brick die-casting digital twin workshop oriented to production anomaly detection	168
A reinforcement learning driven two-stage evolutionary optimisation for hybrid seru system scheduling with worker transfer	155
Quantitative insights into the integrated push and pull production problem for lean supply chain planning 4.0	153
Construction and application of a multimodal knowledge graph for machining deformation uncertainty analysis	149
Optimal dynamic pricing strategy for non-durable experience goods: the role of consumer AI learning	145
Information sharing and confidentiality: a federated multi-agent reinforcement learning approach for supply chain coordination	144
Electric vehicle adoption in logistics supply chain	137
Balancing profitability and waste reduction: optimizing markdown policies for retail inventory	126
Integrated optimisation of delivery and installation operations in home appliance last-mile logistics	121
An overview on human-centred technologies, measurements and optimisation in assembly systems	119
The influence of carbon emission reduction instruments on blockchain technology adoption in recycling batteries of the new energy vehicles	113
A scheduling problem in a reconfigurable manufacturing system with stochastic worker availability: a hybrid L-shaped decomposition method	112
A reinforcement learning-based approach for solving multi-agent job shop scheduling problem	108
Knowledge obstacles when transitioning towards circular economy: an industrial intra-organisational perspective	107
An intelligent matching recommendation algorithm for a manufacturing capacity sharing platform with fairness concerns	107
Relief resource allocation with time restrictions in dual reserve humanitarian supply chain	103

Supply chain cybersecurity investments with interdependent risks under different information exchange modes	103
A multi-agent resource bidding algorithm for order acceptance and assembly job shop scheduling	99
An analytical method for investigating multi-tier sustainable supply chains: simplifying the complex	97
Toward efficient waste electric vehicle battery recycling via auction-based market trading mechanisms	97
A hybrid LSTM method for forecasting demands of medical items in humanitarian operations	94
Catastrophe insurance and flexible planning for supply chain disruption management: a stochastic simulation case study	92
Attractiveness factors in retail category space location-allocation problem	92
Strategic decision-making for sustainable production and distribution in automotive industry: a machine learning enabled dynamic multi-objective optimisation	90
Consumer service level-oriented resilience optimisation for e-commerce supply chain considering hybrid strategies with blockchain adoption	88
Implementation of digital twins in the food supply chain: a review and conceptual framework	87
Human-centred AI in industry 5.0: a systematic review	87
Exploring blockchain technologies in sustainable supply chains – unveiling the latent research topics using an AI approach	86
Smart charging with demand response and energy peak shaving for reefer containers with Internet-of-Things	86
Multi-period replenishment planning with supplier assignment under a dynamic demand and stochastic lead-times	81
Rolling horizon policies for multi-stage stochastic assemble-to-order problems	81
Opportunistic maintenance optimisation for offshore wind farm with considering random wind speed	81
Complex network-based storage assignment strategy for item communities	80
Sustainability meets service procurement: a case study in the ICT service sector	79
A digital twin-based cyber-physical system for resilient short-term equipment leasing	77
A state-of-art review and a simple meta-analysis on deterministic scheduling of diffusion furnaces in semiconductor manufacturing	77
Land layout optimisation for virtual land sales in the metaverse: two-dimensional assortment problem	76
AI-driven dynamic pricing for high-value assets in manufacturing and services: optimizing finite horizon sales with demand sensitivity	75
Product family formation based on optimal resource sequence for reconfigurable manufacturing system	75
Assignment strategy and lane depth in homogeneous multi-deep shuttle-based S/R systems	73
Blockchain-enabled horizontal capacity sharing under demand uncertainty	72
A graph-based approach for integrating massive data in container terminals with application to scheduling problem	72
A novel approach for predicting Lockout/Tagout safety procedures for smart maintenance strategies	71
A port-hinterland hub network design method for reefer containers considering time-varying demands and diverse supporting service requirements	68
Stochastic modelling and analysis of a deteriorating serial production–inventory network	68
A constraint programming approach to a real-world workforce scheduling problem for multi-manned assembly lines with sequence-dependent setup times	63
Towards trustworthy AI for link prediction in supply chain knowledge graph: a neurosymbolic reasoning approach	62
Using Tobit exponential smoothing to enhance demand planning in the presence of censored data	62
A fair distribution of expected profit in a supply chain with a risk-averse manufacturer	61
Minimising total weighted completion time for semi-online single machine scheduling with known arrivals and bounded processing times	60
Improving asset management capabilities: a novel decision support system for maturity assessment	60