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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Impact of quarantine policies on port network performance and robustness during pandemics: a simulation-based analysis	31
Effects of COVID-19 on passenger shipping activities and emissions: empirical analysis of passenger ships in Danish waters	30
Quality design for maritime studies programme in the digital era	26
A deep learning approach for port congestion estimation and prediction	25
Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing for assessing maritime transport: a comprehensive literature review	25
Green port management practices for sustainable port operations: a multi method study of Asian ports	24
Evaluating the impact of COVID-19 on capesize and panamax sectors: the method of empirical mode decomposition	23
Shipping network design–infrastructure investment joint optimization model: a case study of West Africa	23
Identifying the characteristics of China’s maritime trading partners on the basis of bilateral shipping connectivity: a cluster analysis	22
Reconstructing and assessing global maritime transport network: based on the Port Cargo Composite Transport index	22
Deciphering spatial heterogeneity of maritime accidents considering impact scale variations	21
Impact of the new Maritime Silk Road on the resilience of major container ports	20
Adoption of socially interactive technologies for shipping services	20
Analysis and forecasting of the dry bulk shipping market: structural VAR models using FFA-spot-time charter rates	19
Implications of Arctic shipping emissions for marine environment	19
Analysis of fleet deployment in the international container shipping market using simultaneous equations modelling	18
Building a cruise industry resilience hierarchical structure for sustainable cruise port cities	18
Spatial-temporal heterogeneity of global ports resilience under Pandemic: a case study of COVID-19	17
A bi-objective programming model for loading finished-vehicles in containers with adjustable brackets	17
A safety risk assessment for ship boarding parties from fuzzy Bayesian networks perspective	17
Knowledge mapping of seafarers’ health research: a bibliometric analysis	17
Disentangling demand and supply shocks in the shipping freight market: their impact on shipping investments	16
Developing an early warning system for the shipping industry in Korea using two approaches	16
Research on the spatial distribution and influencing factors of the maritime services: based on data from Chinese enterprises	15
Acknowledgement to reviewers 2022	14

A statistical analysis-based Bayesian Network model for assessment of mobbing acts on ships	14
Development of a sentiment measure for dry bulk shipping	14
A system dynamics-based approach for risk analysis of waterway transportation in a mixed traffic environment	14
Resilience of regional container port network: based on projection correlation and dynamic spatial Markov Chain	14
Knowledge mapping of port logistics in the recent 20 Years: a bibliometric analysis via CiteSpace	14
Editorial: Special issue on “Green Port and Maritime Shipping”	13
Effect of online quotation platform on container shipping orders	13
Models for intra-port container terminal cooperation based on volume and vessel transfer	13
Green finance in bulk shipping	12
Enablers of safety citizenship behaviors of seafarers: leader-member exchange, team-member exchange, and safety climate	12
Statistical arbitrage in the freight options market	12
Taking maritime shipping agreements out of the box	12
The competitiveness of mega liner shipping companies on Eurasia routes: consider the impact of the CR-Express services	12
Addressing some of bill of lading issues using the Internet of Things and blockchain technologies: a digitalized conceptual framework	11
Deep learning-based estimation of truck Turn Around Time at container port	11
Protection-level decision in the slot allocation of a carrier: trade-offs between advanced and spot market selling	11
Effective analysis of remote ship inspection in Asia-Pacific region and its impact on shipping trade under COVID-19	11
Identify determinants of container ship size investment choice	11
Subsidy strategy design for shore power utilization and promotion	10
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
Quantitative modelling of shipping freight rates: developments in the past 20 years	10
The impact and importance of serious games in maritime education: an empirical application	10
Mismatch between volume and value: a new perspective on the significance of global ports	10
Spatial evolution model of port group hinterland from the perspective of intermodal transport	10
Understanding the Baltic Dry Index (BDI): an explainable decomposition approach	10
Optimum cooperation strategy for different cooperative motivations: a case study of the Kobe and Osaka ports	9
Measurement of inland port spatial relationship: a case study of Yangtze River inland ports	9
Optimal subsidy design for energy generation in ship berthing	9
Capacity sharing within a shipping alliance: firm optimization and welfare analysis	9
Bibliometric analysis and literature review on maritime transport resilience and its associated impacts on trade	9
Shipping market forecasting by forecast combination mechanism	9
Impact of anti-tax avoidance rules on factors influencing the choice of registry for the self-owned vessels of the shipping lines	8
Analysis of transportation CO ₂ emission efficiency in the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China	8
Dividend payments and dividend smoothing in shipping companies	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
Investment decision analysis of shipping desulfurization project based on a fuzzy real option approach	8
Predictive analysis of fuel oil consumption in vessels: interpretable modelling with emphasis on load conditions	8
Alignment of port policy to the context of the Physical Internet	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
Port strategy and performance: empirical evidence from major container ports and implications for role of data analytics	8
Stock market reactions of maritime shipping industry in the time of COVID-19 pandemic crisis: an empirical investigation	7
Understanding data governance requirements in IoT adoption for smart ports – a gap analysis	7
Digitalisation in RoPax ports: a categorisation framework for digital solutions	7
Blockchain implementation in the maritime industry: critical success factors and strategy formulation	7
Towards intuitive visualisation goals for the operation optimisation of automated container terminal based on digital twin technology	7
Developing a resilience index for safer and more resilient arctic shipping	7
A new wine in new wineskins: unfolding dimension of port-hinterland connectivity and market shares	7

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