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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
An analytical method for investigating multi-tier sustainable supply chains: simplifying the complex	420
Building knowledge beyond our experience: integrating sustainable development goals into IJPR’s research future	223
Rolling horizon policies for multi-stage stochastic assemble-to-order problems	200
Smart charging with demand response and energy peak shaving for reefer containers with Internet-of-Things	196
Performance analysis and optimisation of Bernoulli serial production lines with dynamic real-time bottleneck identification and mitigation	186
A reinforcement learning-based approach for solving multi-agent job shop scheduling problem	175
Catastrophe insurance and flexible planning for supply chain disruption management: a stochastic simulation case study	174
Opportunistic maintenance optimisation for offshore wind farm with considering random wind speed	168
Strategic decision-making for sustainable production and distribution in automotive industry: a machine learning enabled dynamic multi-objective optimisation	167
Consumer service level-oriented resilience optimisation for e-commerce supply chain considering hybrid strategies with blockchain adoption	163
Αn AI-driven approach to assess sentiments and interpret context in a critical mineral supply chain	157
Selecting industrial IoT Platform for digital servitisation: a framework integrating platform leverage practices and cloud HBWM-TOPSIS approach	154
Function block-enabled operation planning and machine control in Cloud-DPP	120
Special issue on collaborative production and maintenance in the environment of big data and industry 4.0	119
Exploring blockchain technologies in sustainable supply chains – unveiling the latent research topics using an AI approach	116
A hybrid learning-based meta-heuristic algorithm for scheduling of an additive manufacturing system consisting of parallel SLM machines	114
Mathematical modelling of carbon emissions and process parameters optimisation for laser welding cell	113
A hybrid approach of case-based reasoning and process reasoning to typical parts grinding process intelligent decision	109
Quantitative insights into the integrated push and pull production problem for lean supply chain planning 4.0	107
Implementation of digital twins in the food supply chain: a review and conceptual framework	102
Optimal extended warranty pricing and retailing strategies in a closed-loop supply chain	102
A hybrid LSTM method for forecasting demands of medical items in humanitarian operations	101
A multisource domain adaptation method for quality prediction in small-batch production systems	96
An overview on human-centred technologies, measurements and optimisation in assembly systems	94
Knowledge obstacles when transitioning towards circular economy: an industrial intra-organisational perspective	92

A capacity matching model in a collaborative urban public transport system: integrating passenger and freight transportation	90
IoT-based milk-run routing for manufacturing system: an application case in an automotive company	90
An intelligent matching recommendation algorithm for a manufacturing capacity sharing platform with fairness concerns	88
Industry 4.0 technologies as enablers of collaboration in circular supply chains: a systematic literature review	88
Supply chain cybersecurity investments with interdependent risks under different information exchange modes	87
Prioritizing adoption barriers of platforms based on blockchain technology from balanced scorecard perspectives in healthcare industry: a structural approach	87
The influence of carbon emission reduction instruments on blockchain technology adoption in recycling batteries of the new energy vehicles	85
Energy-efficient production control of a make-to-stock system with buffer- and time-based policies	84
Attractiveness factors in retail category space location-allocation problem	82
Toward efficient waste electric vehicle battery recycling via auction-based market trading mechanisms	81
The paradigm shift of mass customisation research	81
A multi-agent resource bidding algorithm for order acceptance and assembly job shop scheduling	81
A quantitative approach to resilience in manufacturing systems	78
A reinforcement learning driven two-stage evolutionary optimisation for hybrid seru system scheduling with worker transfer	76
Human-centred AI in industry 5.0: a systematic review	76
Semantic-aware event link reasoning over industrial knowledge graph embedding time series data	75
Assignment strategy and lane depth in homogeneous multi-deep shuttle-based S/R systems	73
Hierarchical multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for dynamic flexible job-shop scheduling with transportation	72
A digital twin-based cyber-physical system for resilient short-term equipment leasing	71
Product family formation based on optimal resource sequence for reconfigurable manufacturing system	71
A novel approach for predicting Lockout/Tagout safety procedures for smart maintenance strategies	70
An efficient and adaptive design of reinforcement learning environment to solve job shop scheduling problem with soft actor-critic algorithm	66
Retailing and ordering strategies for online apparel retailers facing bracketing purchase behaviour	66
Improved formulations of the joint order batching and picker routing problem	66
Enhancing supply chain flows through blockchain: a comprehensive literature review	66
Complex network-based storage assignment strategy for item communities	65
Blockchain-based digital product passport: design principles and demonstration	65
Industrial processes and the smart grid: overcoming the variability of renewables by using built-in process storage and intelligent control strategies	64
Real-time scheduling simulation optimisation of job shop in a production-logistics collaborative environment	63
Towards trustworthy AI for link prediction in supply chain knowledge graph: a neurosymbolic reasoning approach	62
The ASSISTANT project: AI for high level decisions in manufacturing	62
The optimisation research of Blockchain application in the financial institution-dominated supply chain finance system	62
A graph-based approach for integrating massive data in container terminals with application to scheduling problem	61
A three-step approach for decision support in operational production planning of complex manufacturing systems	61
Deploying hybrid modelling to support the development of a digital twin for supply chain master planning under disruptions	61
Sustainability meets service procurement: a case study in the ICT service sector	61
Land layout optimisation for virtual land sales in the metaverse: two-dimensional assortment problem	61
Minimising total weighted completion time for semi-online single machine scheduling with known arrivals and bounded processing times	61
Stochastic modelling and analysis of a deteriorating serial production–inventory network	61
Improving asset management capabilities: a novel decision support system for maturity assessment	61