OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Maritime Policy & Management is 3. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Impact of quarantine policies on port network performance and robustness during pandemics: a simulation-based analysis	32
Quality design for maritime studies programme in the digital era	31
How does port intelligence impact the performance of port firms? – Empirical evidence from listed port firms in China	30
Effects of COVID-19 on passenger shipping activities and emissions: empirical analysis of passenger ships in Danish waters	27
Evaluating the impact of COVID-19 on capesize and panamax sectors: the method of empirical mode decomposition	25
A deep learning approach for port congestion estimation and prediction	25
Identifying the characteristics of China’s maritime trading partners on the basis of bilateral shipping connectivity: a cluster analysis	24
Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing for assessing maritime transport: a comprehensive literature review	24
Shipping network design–infrastructure investment joint optimization model: a case study of West Africa	23
Green port management practices for sustainable port operations: a multi method study of Asian ports	23
Impact of the new Maritime Silk Road on the resilience of major container ports	22
Deciphering spatial heterogeneity of maritime accidents considering impact scale variations	22
Adoption of socially interactive technologies for shipping services	22
Implications of Arctic shipping emissions for marine environment	21
Building a cruise industry resilience hierarchical structure for sustainable cruise port cities	20
Analysis of fleet deployment in the international container shipping market using simultaneous equations modelling	20
Reconstructing and assessing global maritime transport network: based on the Port Cargo Composite Transport index	19
Analysis and forecasting of the dry bulk shipping market: structural VAR models using FFA-spot-time charter rates	19
Spatial-temporal heterogeneity of global ports resilience under Pandemic: a case study of COVID-19	18
A bi-objective programming model for loading finished-vehicles in containers with adjustable brackets	18
A safety risk assessment for ship boarding parties from fuzzy Bayesian networks perspective	17
Developing an early warning system for the shipping industry in Korea using two approaches	15
Knowledge mapping of seafarers’ health research: a bibliometric analysis	15
A statistical analysis-based Bayesian Network model for assessment of mobbing acts on ships	15
The impact of seaport infrastructure efficiency on foreign direct investment in Africa	14

Knowledge mapping of port logistics in the recent 20 Years: a bibliometric analysis via CiteSpace	14
A system dynamics-based approach for risk analysis of waterway transportation in a mixed traffic environment	14
Research on the spatial distribution and influencing factors of the maritime services: based on data from Chinese enterprises	13
Acknowledgement to reviewers 2022	13
Editorial: Special issue on “Green Port and Maritime Shipping”	13
Disentangling demand and supply shocks in the shipping freight market: their impact on shipping investments	13
Models for intra-port container terminal cooperation based on volume and vessel transfer	13
Effect of online quotation platform on container shipping orders	13
Resilience of regional container port network: based on projection correlation and dynamic spatial Markov Chain	13
Enablers of safety citizenship behaviors of seafarers: leader-member exchange, team-member exchange, and safety climate	13
Development of a sentiment measure for dry bulk shipping	12
Identify determinants of container ship size investment choice	12
Port co-opetition: revisited after 20 years	12
The competitiveness of mega liner shipping companies on Eurasia routes: consider the impact of the CR-Express services	12
Taking maritime shipping agreements out of the box	12
Statistical arbitrage in the freight options market	11
Protection-level decision in the slot allocation of a carrier: trade-offs between advanced and spot market selling	11
Green finance in bulk shipping	11
A methodology to model the evolution of system resilience for Arctic shipping from the perspective of complexity	10
A trip-level multi-dimensional approach for the operational efficiency analysis of container vessel trips based on automatic identification system data	10
Deep learning-based estimation of truck Turn Around Time at container port	10
Subsidy strategy design for shore power utilization and promotion	10
Spatial evolution model of port group hinterland from the perspective of intermodal transport	10
Mismatch between volume and value: a new perspective on the significance of global ports	10
Effective analysis of remote ship inspection in Asia-Pacific region and its impact on shipping trade under COVID-19	10
Understanding the Baltic Dry Index (BDI): an explainable decomposition approach	10
Quantitative modelling of shipping freight rates: developments in the past 20 years	10
Measurement of inland port spatial relationship: a case study of Yangtze River inland ports	9
Bibliometric analysis and literature review on maritime transport resilience and its associated impacts on trade	9
The impact and importance of serious games in maritime education: an empirical application	9
Optimal subsidy design for energy generation in ship berthing	9
Alignment of port policy to the context of the Physical Internet	9
Capacity sharing within a shipping alliance: firm optimization and welfare analysis	9
Optimum cooperation strategy for different cooperative motivations: a case study of the Kobe and Osaka ports	9
Impact of anti-tax avoidance rules on factors influencing the choice of registry for the self-owned vessels of the shipping lines	9
Analysis of transportation CO ₂ emission efficiency in the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China	8
Shipping market forecasting by forecast combination mechanism	8
Dividend payments and dividend smoothing in shipping companies	8
An environmental management system in seaports: evidence from Malaysia	8
A study on the assessment of risk management performance in maritime start-ups: evidence from China	8
Multilevel analysis of bulk shipping fleet productivity: a big data approach	8
Prediction of container port congestion status and its impact on ship’s time in port based on AIS data	8
Maritime services location decisions—an empirical analysis and implications	8
Stock market reactions of maritime shipping industry in the time of COVID-19 pandemic crisis: an empirical investigation	8
Investment decision analysis of shipping desulfurization project based on a fuzzy real option approach	8
A new wine in new wineskins: unfolding dimension of port-hinterland connectivity and market shares	8
Port strategy and performance: empirical evidence from major container ports and implications for role of data analytics	8
Blockchain implementation in the maritime industry: critical success factors and strategy formulation	8
Predictive analysis of fuel oil consumption in vessels: interpretable modelling with emphasis on load conditions	8
Towards intuitive visualisation goals for the operation optimisation of automated container terminal based on digital twin technology	7

Controlling marine greenhouse gas emissions in Hong Kong: policy considerations	7
A multi-criteria decision support framework for assessing seaport sustainability planning: the case of Piraeus	7
Developing a resilience index for safer and more resilient arctic shipping	7
Understanding data governance requirements in IoT adoption for smart ports – a gap analysis	7
Determinants of digital transformation in container shipping lines: a theory driven approach	7
Digitalisation in RoPax ports: a categorisation framework for digital solutions	7
The best practices of port sustainable development: a case study in Korea	7
Exploring information demand in the maritime industry: a Google Trends approach	7
Data-Driven Asset Health Index – an application to evaluate Quay Cranes in container ports	6
Determinants and stressors of seafarers’ job satisfaction: evidence from a global survey	6
Logistics strategy simulation of second-ranked ports on the basis of Japan’s port reforms: a case study of Hakata Port	6
Which ports differ in the copycat effectiveness of the hinterland strategy? Based on port-hinterland distance correlation	6
A Bayesian network-based TOPSIS framework to dynamically control the risk of maritime piracy	6
An examination of the pirate cycle theory: insights from modern piracy dynamics	6
Semi-supervised learning for multi-target regression in ship risk prediction	6
Potential demand for coastal shipping in Queensland: a behavioural econometric analysis	6
Investigating optimal green port investment strategies considering location-based externalities	6
Dynamic evolution of green total factor productivity growth of China’s coastal ports	6
Emissions from container vessels in the port of Singapore	5
Impact of imputation methods for ship technical parameters on emission estimations in ports	5
Dynamic interdependence and volatility spillovers across bunker fuel markets and shipping freight markets	5
Are output disaggregation and energy variables key when measuring container terminal efficiency?	5
Economic and environmental feasibility of Northern Sea Route for container service: impact by ice besetting events	5
The daily port and shoreline emission inventory model	5
The motives for shipping asset securitisation: sale-leaseback transactions in the shipping industry	5
Use of HFACS and Bayesian network for human and organizational factors analysis of ship collision accidents in the Yangtze River	5
A bibliometric study based on seafarers’ psychological issues: hotspots research and future agenda	5
Empty container repositioning problem using a reinforcement learning framework with multi-weight adaptive reward function	5
Blockchain application in maritime supply chain: a systematic literature review and conceptual framework	5
Multi-objective intermodal transportation planning with real-life application	5
Correction	5
Industry investor sentiment in the global shipping industry	5
Special issue on ‘Logistics and maritime systems for global trade’	5
Determinants of vessels’ fixtures allocation over contracts of different duration and global economic uncertainty	5
Second-hand vessel valuation: an extreme gradient boosting approach	4
Special issue on “transitions and revolutions; preparing for future challenges of the maritime industry”	4
Container terminal automation: assessment of drivers and benefits	4
The impact of Brexit on supply chain cost and Ro-Ro traffic at Dover	4
Optimising the resilience of shipping networks to climate vulnerability	4
Trade strategy with the countries along the Ice Silk Road: a Rabin model-based perspective	4
Privileged or ordinary carrier: strategic choice in a competitive environment	4
Measuring the dynamic term structure of the FFA market	4
Comparative evaluation of VAE-based monitoring statistics for real-time anomaly detection in AIS data	4
Global Strategic Alliances in container liner shipping: knowledge sharing and decision-making through contractual governance structures	4
Special Issue on ‘Environment and Sustainability’	4
Identifying port congestion and evaluating its impact on maritime logistics	4
Port congestion and the economics of LPG seaborne transportation	4
The determinants of the rate of return on shipping sale-leasebacks*	4
Exploration of machine learning methods for maritime risk predictions	3
Maritime safety through multi-source data fusion: an AdaBoost-based approach for predictive ship detention by port state control	3
State of play in technology and legal framework of alternative marine fuels and renewable energy systems: a bibliometric analysis	3
Scaling-up 5G adoption in smart ports: barriers and enablers	3
A study on the industrial symbiosis in maritime cluster considering value chain and life cycle – case of Dalian, China	3
Traffic and freight flow predictions and effects of capacity expansion in the urban–port road interface: The case of a port city in Poland	3
Efficiency analysis of inland waterway locks in maritime transportation systems: practical, economic and policy implications	3
Integrated scheduling of yard cranes, external trucks, and internal trucks in maritime container terminal operation	3
Acknowledgement to reviewers 2023	3
Container terminal competition and cooperation considering emission tax	3
The impact of COVID-19 on shipping freights: asymmetric multifractality analysis	3
Manufacturing diffusion trends from the perspective of trade network: the belt vs. the road	3
Sustainable investing and ownership structure in international shipping companies	3
Debt conservatism in shipping: determinants and investment implications	3
Assessment of criteria of ship classification societies	3
A novel method of assessing port resilience and its positive ramifications	3
A novel Index-based quantification approach for port performance measurement: a case from Indian major ports	3
The impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on corporate financial performance: an empirical study on shipping	3
A mixed method for determination of cut-off dates in liner shipping	3
Alliance and network in maritime shipping industry	3
The impact of digitalization and digital logistics platform adoption on organizational performance in maritime logistics of Taiwan	3
Green berth and yard space allocation under carbon tax policy in tidal ports	3
Shipping-specific ESG rating and reporting framework	3
Women seafarers in Taiwan: policies, benefits, challenges, and bias in the data	3
Shore power management for green shipping under international river transportation	3
Analysis of maritime transportation research capability: authors, affiliations, and nationalities	3