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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Quality design for maritime studies programme in the digital era	35
Effects of COVID-19 on passenger shipping activities and emissions: empirical analysis of passenger ships in Danish waters	34
How does port intelligence impact the performance of port firms? – Empirical evidence from listed port firms in China	34
Impact of quarantine policies on port network performance and robustness during pandemics: a simulation-based analysis	32
Evaluating the impact of COVID-19 on capesize and panamax sectors: the method of empirical mode decomposition	26
Green port management practices for sustainable port operations: a multi method study of Asian ports	26
Understanding the determinants of fleet size optimization in dry bulk shipping: insights from a systematic literature review and Delphi study	26
Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing for assessing maritime transport: a comprehensive literature review	26
A deep learning approach for port congestion estimation and prediction	25
Deciphering spatial heterogeneity of maritime accidents considering impact scale variations	24
Impact of the new Maritime Silk Road on the resilience of major container ports	24
Building a cruise industry resilience hierarchical structure for sustainable cruise port cities	22
Decarbonized tourism travel mode: design of river-sea connecting cruise products considering the cumulative utility of tourist experience	20
Adoption of socially interactive technologies for shipping services	20
Reconstructing and assessing global maritime transport network: based on the Port Cargo Composite Transport index	19
Analysis of fleet deployment in the international container shipping market using simultaneous equations modelling	19
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	18
A safety risk assessment for ship boarding parties from fuzzy Bayesian networks perspective	17
Knowledge mapping of seafarers’ health research: a bibliometric analysis	17
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 statistical analysis-based Bayesian Network model for assessment of mobbing acts on ships	16
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

The impact of seaport infrastructure efficiency on foreign direct investment in Africa	14
A system dynamics-based approach for risk analysis of waterway transportation in a mixed traffic environment	14
Editorial: Special issue on “Green Port and Maritime Shipping”	14
Knowledge mapping of port logistics in the recent 20 Years: a bibliometric analysis via CiteSpace	14
Acknowledgement to reviewers 2022	14
Research on the spatial distribution and influencing factors of the maritime services: based on data from Chinese enterprises	14
Development of a sentiment measure for dry bulk shipping	13
The competitiveness of mega liner shipping companies on Eurasia routes: consider the impact of the CR-Express services	13
Port co-opetition: revisited after 20 years	13
Effect of online quotation platform on container shipping orders	13
Taking maritime shipping agreements out of the box	13
Models for intra-port container terminal cooperation based on volume and vessel transfer	12
Statistical arbitrage in the freight options market	12
Resilience of regional container port network: based on projection correlation and dynamic spatial Markov Chain	12
Enablers of safety citizenship behaviors of seafarers: leader-member exchange, team-member exchange, and safety climate	12
A data-driven AcciMap-BN model for risk factor analysis of collisions between merchant ships and fishing vessels	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
Deep learning-based estimation of truck Turn Around Time at container port	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
Mismatch between volume and value: a new perspective on the significance of global ports	10
Quantitative modelling of shipping freight rates: developments in the past 20 years	10
Spatial evolution model of port group hinterland from the perspective of intermodal transport	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
Optimal subsidy design for energy generation in ship berthing	9
Bibliometric analysis and literature review on maritime transport resilience and its associated impacts on trade	9
Capacity sharing within a shipping alliance: firm optimization and welfare analysis	9
Impact of anti-tax avoidance rules on factors influencing the choice of registry for the self-owned vessels of the shipping lines	9
Alignment of port policy to the context of the Physical Internet	9
The impact and importance of serious games in maritime education: an empirical application	9
Measurement of inland port spatial relationship: a case study of Yangtze River inland ports	9
Prediction of container port congestion status and its impact on ship’s time in port based on AIS data	9
Optimum cooperation strategy for different cooperative motivations: a case study of the Kobe and Osaka ports	9
Port strategy and performance: empirical evidence from major container ports and implications for role of data analytics	8
Predictive analysis of fuel oil consumption in vessels: interpretable modelling with emphasis on load conditions	8
Stock market reactions of maritime shipping industry in the time of COVID-19 pandemic crisis: an empirical investigation	8
Multilevel analysis of bulk shipping fleet productivity: a big data approach	8
A study on the assessment of risk management performance in maritime start-ups: evidence from China	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
An environmental management system in seaports: evidence from Malaysia	8
A new wine in new wineskins: unfolding dimension of port-hinterland connectivity and market shares	7
Dividend payments and dividend smoothing in shipping companies	7
Understanding data governance requirements in IoT adoption for smart ports – a gap analysis	7
Controlling marine greenhouse gas emissions in Hong Kong: policy considerations	7
Blockchain implementation in the maritime industry: critical success factors and strategy formulation	7

Analysis of transportation CO ₂ emission efficiency in the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China	7
Data-Driven Asset Health Index – an application to evaluate Quay Cranes in container ports	6
Logistics strategy simulation of second-ranked ports on the basis of Japan’s port reforms: a case study of Hakata Port	6
Developing a resilience index for safer and more resilient arctic shipping	6
Which ports differ in the copycat effectiveness of the hinterland strategy? Based on port-hinterland distance correlation	6
Semi-supervised learning for multi-target regression in ship risk prediction	6
Exploring information demand in the maritime industry: a Google Trends approach	6
A Bayesian network-based TOPSIS framework to dynamically control the risk of maritime piracy	6
Towards intuitive visualisation goals for the operation optimisation of automated container terminal based on digital twin technology	6
Potential demand for coastal shipping in Queensland: a behavioural econometric analysis	6
Determinants of digital transformation in container shipping lines: a theory driven approach	6
A multi-criteria decision support framework for assessing seaport sustainability planning: the case of Piraeus	6
Investigating optimal green port investment strategies considering location-based externalities	6
Policy frameworks for green innovation in maritime trade and sustainable development	6
Digitalisation in RoPax ports: a categorisation framework for digital solutions	6
The best practices of port sustainable development: a case study in Korea	6
A bibliometric study based on seafarers’ psychological issues: hotspots research and future agenda	5
Blockchain application in maritime supply chain: a systematic literature review and conceptual framework	5
An examination of the pirate cycle theory: insights from modern piracy dynamics	5
Emissions from container vessels in the port of Singapore	5
The daily port and shoreline emission inventory model	5
Dynamic interdependence and volatility spillovers across bunker fuel markets and shipping freight markets	5
Special issue on ‘Logistics and maritime systems for global trade’	5
Dynamic evolution of green total factor productivity growth of China’s coastal ports	5
The motives for shipping asset securitisation: sale-leaseback transactions in the shipping industry	5
Industry investor sentiment in the global shipping industry	5
Optimizing the portfolio of smart technologies to maximize port carbon emission efficiency: a configurational theory approach	5
Impact of imputation methods for ship technical parameters on emission estimations in ports	5
Correction	5
Multi-objective intermodal transportation planning with real-life application	5
Determinants and stressors of seafarers’ job satisfaction: evidence from a global survey	5
Economic and environmental feasibility of Northern Sea Route for container service: impact by ice besetting events	4
Special Issue on ‘Environment and Sustainability’	4
Global Strategic Alliances in container liner shipping: knowledge sharing and decision-making through contractual governance structures	4
Optimising the resilience of shipping networks to climate vulnerability	4
Identifying port congestion and evaluating its impact on maritime logistics	4
The impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on corporate financial performance: an empirical study on shipping	4
Measuring the dynamic term structure of the FFA market	4
Empty container repositioning problem using a reinforcement learning framework with multi-weight adaptive reward function	4
Are output disaggregation and energy variables key when measuring container terminal efficiency?	4
Determinants of vessels’ fixtures allocation over contracts of different duration and global economic uncertainty	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
Acknowledgement to reviewers 2023	4
A novel Index-based quantification approach for port performance measurement: a case from Indian major ports	4
Special issue on “transitions and revolutions; preparing for future challenges of the maritime industry”	4
Second-hand vessel valuation: an extreme gradient boosting approach	4
Trade strategy with the countries along the Ice Silk Road: a Rabin model-based perspective	4
The determinants of the rate of return on shipping sale-leasebacks*	4
Container terminal automation: assessment of drivers and benefits	4
Comparative evaluation of VAE-based monitoring statistics for real-time anomaly detection in AIS data	4
Shipping-specific ESG rating and reporting framework	3
Shore power management for green shipping under international river transportation	3
Efficiency analysis of inland waterway locks in maritime transportation systems: practical, economic and policy implications	3
Maritime safety through multi-source data fusion: an AdaBoost-based approach for predictive ship detention by port state control	3
Scaling-up 5G adoption in smart ports: barriers and enablers	3
Debt conservatism in shipping: determinants and investment implications	3
Manufacturing diffusion trends from the perspective of trade network: the belt vs. the road	3
A mixed method for determination of cut-off dates in liner shipping	3
Assessment of criteria of ship classification societies	3
Women seafarers in Taiwan: policies, benefits, challenges, and bias in the data	3
Integrated scheduling of yard cranes, external trucks, and internal trucks in maritime container terminal operation	3
Sustainable investing and ownership structure in international shipping companies	3
Exploration of machine learning methods for maritime risk predictions	3
The impact of digitalization and digital logistics platform adoption on organizational performance in maritime logistics of Taiwan	3
Analysis of maritime transportation research capability: authors, affiliations, and nationalities	3
A novel method of assessing port resilience and its positive ramifications	3
The impact of COVID-19 on shipping freights: asymmetric multifractality analysis	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
State of play in technology and legal framework of alternative marine fuels and renewable energy systems: a bibliometric analysis	3