OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Production Research is 61. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A multi-agent resource bidding algorithm for order acceptance and assembly job shop scheduling	639
Exploring modularity's effects on process efficiency in single assembly line balancing	319
Special issue on collaborative production and maintenance in the environment of big data and industry 4.0	270
Knowledge obstacles when transitioning towards circular economy: an industrial intra-organisational perspective	245
Catastrophe insurance and flexible planning for supply chain disruption management: a stochastic simulation case study	231
Αn AI-driven approach to assess sentiments and interpret context in a critical mineral supply chain	230
Balancing profitability and waste reduction: optimizing markdown policies for retail inventory	205
Multi-period replenishment planning with supplier assignment under a dynamic demand and stochastic lead-times	199
Resilient agricultural biomass supply chain network design with uncertain disruptions: a data-driven globalised robust optimisation approach	162
A reinforcement learning-based approach for solving multi-agent job shop scheduling problem	154
Information sharing and confidentiality: a federated multi-agent reinforcement learning approach for supply chain coordination	151
Integrated optimisation of delivery and installation operations in home appliance last-mile logistics	140
Mathematical modelling of carbon emissions and process parameters optimisation for laser welding cell	139
IoT-based milk-run routing for manufacturing system: an application case in an automotive company	134
Electric vehicle adoption in logistics supply chain	132
Infrastructure planning of intra-city battery swapping stations considering demand uncertainty: a multi-pattern based distributionally robust approach	125
Strategic decision-making for sustainable production and distribution in automotive industry: a machine learning enabled dynamic multi-objective optimisation	123
The role of the Industry 4.0 technologies for Industry 5.0 development in small and medium enterprises	120
An analytical method for investigating multi-tier sustainable supply chains: simplifying the complex	116
Consumer service level-oriented resilience optimisation for e-commerce supply chain considering hybrid strategies with blockchain adoption	113
Energy-efficient production control of a make-to-stock system with buffer- and time-based policies	111
Smart charging with demand response and energy peak shaving for reefer containers with Internet-of-Things	110
Toward efficient waste electric vehicle battery recycling via auction-based market trading mechanisms	107
Rolling horizon policies for multi-stage stochastic assemble-to-order problems	101
Optimal dynamic pricing strategy for non-durable experience goods: the role of consumer AI learning	99

Attractiveness factors in retail category space location-allocation problem	99
An overview on human-centred technologies, measurements and optimisation in assembly systems	97
A reinforcement learning driven two-stage evolutionary optimisation for hybrid seru system scheduling with worker transfer	96
An intelligent matching recommendation algorithm for a manufacturing capacity sharing platform with fairness concerns	95
A decision support framework on simulation fidelity for transferable and autonomously optimised swarm behaviour	93
Supply chain cybersecurity investments with interdependent risks under different information exchange modes	88
Quantitative insights into the integrated push and pull production problem for lean supply chain planning 4.0	88
Construction and application of a multimodal knowledge graph for machining deformation uncertainty analysis	87
Opportunistic maintenance optimisation for offshore wind farm with considering random wind speed	86
Implementation of digital twins in the food supply chain: a review and conceptual framework	85
Optimal extended warranty pricing and retailing strategies in a closed-loop supply chain	84
The paradigm shift of mass customisation research	82
A hybrid LSTM method for forecasting demands of medical items in humanitarian operations	82
Human-centred AI in industry 5.0: a systematic review	81
Exploring blockchain technologies in sustainable supply chains – unveiling the latent research topics using an AI approach	80
The influence of carbon emission reduction instruments on blockchain technology adoption in recycling batteries of the new energy vehicles	79
A fair distribution of expected profit in a supply chain with a risk-averse manufacturer	78
A multi-level modelling approach for magnesium-carbon brick die-casting digital twin workshop oriented to production anomaly detection	78
A constraint programming approach to a real-world workforce scheduling problem for multi-manned assembly lines with sequence-dependent setup times	77
Complex network-based storage assignment strategy for item communities	76
Improving asset management capabilities: a novel decision support system for maturity assessment	76
Hierarchical multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for dynamic flexible job-shop scheduling with transportation	75
An integrated multi-objective approach to collaborative disassembly line balancing and planning with TAOG-based modelling	74
Sustainability meets service procurement: a case study in the ICT service sector	74
An efficient and adaptive design of reinforcement learning environment to solve job shop scheduling problem with soft actor-critic algorithm	71
A digital twin-based cyber-physical system for resilient short-term equipment leasing	70
A state-of-art review and a simple meta-analysis on deterministic scheduling of diffusion furnaces in semiconductor manufacturing	69
Minimising total weighted completion time for semi-online single machine scheduling with known arrivals and bounded processing times	69
Robust emergency relief supply allocation with supplier selection and inventory pre-positioning	68
A three-step approach for decision support in operational production planning of complex manufacturing systems	68
Land layout optimisation for virtual land sales in the metaverse: two-dimensional assortment problem	68
Digital assets in zero-defect manufacturing: literature review and proposed framework	68
AI-driven dynamic pricing for high-value assets in manufacturing and services: optimizing finite horizon sales with demand sensitivity	67
An innovative framework integrating MILP and a parallel optimal algorithm for UAV-Enabled last-Mile delivery	67
Using Tobit exponential smoothing to enhance demand planning in the presence of censored data	65
Product family formation based on optimal resource sequence for reconfigurable manufacturing system	61