OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Production Research is 62. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
A hybrid LSTM method for forecasting demands of medical items in humanitarian operations	450
A multisource domain adaptation method for quality prediction in small-batch production systems	231
Consumer service level-oriented resilience optimisation for e-commerce supply chain considering hybrid strategies with blockchain adoption	215
Optimal extended warranty pricing and retailing strategies in a closed-loop supply chain	199
Supply chain cybersecurity investments with interdependent risks under different information exchange modes	197
Energy-efficient production control of a make-to-stock system with buffer- and time-based policies	189
The paradigm shift of mass customisation research	179
The influence of carbon emission reduction instruments on blockchain technology adoption in recycling batteries of the new energy vehicles	173
Selecting industrial IoT Platform for digital servitisation: a framework integrating platform leverage practices and cloud HBWM-TOPSIS approach	164
Industry 4.0 technologies as enablers of collaboration in circular supply chains: a systematic literature review	158
An intelligent matching recommendation algorithm for a manufacturing capacity sharing platform with fairness concerns	145
Prioritizing adoption barriers of platforms based on blockchain technology from balanced scorecard perspectives in healthcare industry: a structural approach	139
A quantitative approach to resilience in manufacturing systems	123
Attractiveness factors in retail category space location-allocation problem	121
A multi-agent resource bidding algorithm for order acceptance and assembly job shop scheduling	118
Mathematical modelling of carbon emissions and process parameters optimisation for laser welding cell	117
Quantitative insights into the integrated push and pull production problem for lean supply chain planning 4.0	115
IoT-based milk-run routing for manufacturing system: an application case in an automotive company	109
A reinforcement learning driven two-stage evolutionary optimisation for hybrid seru system scheduling with worker transfer	107
Function block-enabled operation planning and machine control in Cloud-DPP	106
Toward efficient waste electric vehicle battery recycling via auction-based market trading mechanisms	102
Smart charging with demand response and energy peak shaving for reefer containers with Internet-of-Things	100
Performance analysis and optimisation of Bernoulli serial production lines with dynamic real-time bottleneck identification and mitigation	100
Rolling horizon policies for multi-stage stochastic assemble-to-order problems	99
A reinforcement learning-based approach for solving multi-agent job shop scheduling problem	96

Special issue on collaborative production and maintenance in the environment of big data and industry 4.0	95
Semantic-aware event link reasoning over industrial knowledge graph embedding time series data	94
Exploring blockchain technologies in sustainable supply chains – unveiling the latent research topics using an AI approach	94
Optimal dynamic pricing strategy for non-durable experience goods: the role of consumer AI learning	91
Knowledge obstacles when transitioning towards circular economy: an industrial intra-organisational perspective	91
A hybrid learning-based meta-heuristic algorithm for scheduling of an additive manufacturing system consisting of parallel SLM machines	89
An analytical method for investigating multi-tier sustainable supply chains: simplifying the complex	87
Catastrophe insurance and flexible planning for supply chain disruption management: a stochastic simulation case study	84
Strategic decision-making for sustainable production and distribution in automotive industry: a machine learning enabled dynamic multi-objective optimisation	83
Exploring modularity's effects on process efficiency in single assembly line balancing	82
Αn AI-driven approach to assess sentiments and interpret context in a critical mineral supply chain	81
A capacity matching model in a collaborative urban public transport system: integrating passenger and freight transportation	81
A hybrid approach of case-based reasoning and process reasoning to typical parts grinding process intelligent decision	80
Opportunistic maintenance optimisation for offshore wind farm with considering random wind speed	79
Human-centred AI in industry 5.0: a systematic review	78
Building knowledge beyond our experience: integrating sustainable development goals into IJPR’s research future	77
Implementation of digital twins in the food supply chain: a review and conceptual framework	77
Hierarchical multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for dynamic flexible job-shop scheduling with transportation	71
An overview on human-centred technologies, measurements and optimisation in assembly systems	71
Product family formation based on optimal resource sequence for reconfigurable manufacturing system	71
A digital twin-based cyber-physical system for resilient short-term equipment leasing	70
Complex network-based storage assignment strategy for item communities	69
A novel approach for predicting Lockout/Tagout safety procedures for smart maintenance strategies	69
Blockchain-based digital product passport: design principles and demonstration	69
A constraint programming approach to a real-world workforce scheduling problem for multi-manned assembly lines with sequence-dependent setup times	68
Industrial processes and the smart grid: overcoming the variability of renewables by using built-in process storage and intelligent control strategies	68
An innovative framework integrating MILP and a parallel optimal algorithm for UAV-Enabled last-Mile delivery	67
A graph-based approach for integrating massive data in container terminals with application to scheduling problem	65
Minimising total weighted completion time for semi-online single machine scheduling with known arrivals and bounded processing times	65
Real-time scheduling simulation optimisation of job shop in a production-logistics collaborative environment	65
A three-step approach for decision support in operational production planning of complex manufacturing systems	64
Sustainability meets service procurement: a case study in the ICT service sector	64
Stochastic modelling and analysis of a deteriorating serial production–inventory network	63
A port-hinterland hub network design method for reefer containers considering time-varying demands and diverse supporting service requirements	62
A state-of-art review and a simple meta-analysis on deterministic scheduling of diffusion furnaces in semiconductor manufacturing	62
A two-stage stochastic programming model and parallel Master–Slave adaptive GA for flexible Seru system formation	62
Improving asset management capabilities: a novel decision support system for maturity assessment	62
Cost-effective dynamic sampling in high dimensional online monitoring with advantage actor-critic	62
Minimum order quantity requirements in the presence of supply disruption risk and retail competition	62
Land layout optimisation for virtual land sales in the metaverse: two-dimensional assortment problem	62