OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Health Care Management Science is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Blood platelet inventory management: Incorporating data-driven demand forecasts	36
DEA-based centralized resource allocation with a balance between efficiency and equity: evidence from healthcare services across 31 provinces in China	29
Classification of patients with chronic disease by activation level using machine learning methods	22
Impact of subsidy policies on the financial status of trauma centers	20
Road coverage as demand metric for ambulance allocation	16
Location planning, resource reallocation and patient assignment during a pandemic considering the needs of ordinary patients	15
A two-phase method for layout optimization: The case of a referral cancer center in Latin America	15
Operating room design using agent-based simulation to reduce room obstructions	15
Pool testing with dilution effects and heterogeneous priors	14
Public health interventions for developing resilience to contagious diseases: a system dynamics approach	14
Incorporating medication therapy management into community pharmacy workflows	13
Surgery scheduling problem considering the affinity and preferences in the surgical team	13
A change-point method for multi-lead electrocardiogram monitoring using weighted multivariate functional principal component analysis	12
A clinical decision-support system for dengue based on fuzzy cognitive maps	12
Beyond patient-sharing: Comparing physician- and patient-induced networks	11
Excess deaths by sex and Age Group in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	11
Patient-to-nurse ratios: Balancing quality, nurse turnover, and cost	11
Health care management science for underserved populations	11
Heterogeneous donor circles for fair liver transplant allocation	10
What is the value of explicit priority setting for health interventions? A simulation study	10
Real-time management of intra-hospital patient transport requests	10
A systematic literature review of predicting patient discharges using statistical methods and machine learning	10
The crucial role of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in improving health care management	9
A study of “left against medical advice” emergency department patients: an optimized explainable artificial intelligence framework	9
Joint decisions for hospital admissions and horizontal medical resource transfer against capacity shortage in the early stage of pandemics	9

A novel approach to forecast surgery durations using machine learning techniques	9
Optimal quality oversight in kidney transplantation and its impact on transplant centers’ waitlist management	9
A multi-product multi-period stochastic model for a blood supply chain considering blood substitution and demand uncertainty	8
A tactical multi-week implicit tour scheduling model with applications in healthcare	8
Applications of data envelopment analysis in acute care hospitals: a systematic literature review, 1984–2022	8
Optimizing operating room scheduling through multi-level learning and column generation: a novel hybrid approach	8
Enhancing patient accessibility of primary care: the redesign of Italian territorial medicine	7
Machine learning for optimal test admission in the presence of resource constraints	7
Visualisation of Data Envelopment Analysis in primary health services	7
Optimal capacity planning for long-term care facilities considering patients’ gender, language, and age group	7
A chance-constrained network DEA approach for evaluating medical service and quality efficiency: a case study of Taiwan	7
Covid-19 infection risk on US domestic airlines	7
A decomposition-based approach for multi-level appointment planning and scheduling	7
Non-linear missing data imputation for healthcare data via index-aware autoencoders	6
Homogeneity and Best Practice Analyses in Hospital Performance Management: An Analytical Framework	6
A novel two-stage network data envelopment analysis model for kidney allocation problem under medical and logistical uncertainty: a real case study	6
Data envelopment analysis efficiency in the public sector using provider and customer opinion: An application to the Spanish health system	6
A reinforcement learning-based optimal control approach for managing an elective surgery backlog after pandemic disruption	6
Synergizing artificial intelligence and operations research for advancements in biomanufacturing	5
Multi-objective dynamic prioritized routing and scheduling for home healthcare services with cooperating service providers	5
On integrating patient appointment grids and technologist schedules in a radiology center	5
The policy case for designating EMS teams for vulnerable patient populations: Evidence from an intervention in Boston	4
A reinforcement learning approach for the online dynamic home health care scheduling problem	4
Diagnosis decoded: a taxonomy and natural language processing analysis of the diagnosis section in German hospital discharge summaries	4
Optimization of the stroke hospital selection strategy and the distribution of endovascular thrombectomy resources	4
On the timing and probability of Presurgical Teledermatology: how it becomes the dominant strategy	4
Monitoring policy in the context of preventive treatment of cardiovascular disease	4
Online scheduling using a fixed template: the case of outpatient chemotherapy drug administration	4
Surgical scheduling via optimization and machine learning with long-tailed data	4
Examining chronic kidney disease screening frequency among diabetics: a POMDP approach	4
A two-stage partial fixing approach for solving the residency block scheduling problem	4
Health care management science - best paper of 2023	3
Enhancing clinical and non-clinical risk management: A case study using ELECTRE Tri-nC	3
Combining machine learning and optimization for the operational patient-bed assignment problem	3
Bayesian prediction of emergency department wait time	3
Streamlining emergency department workflow: reducing length of stay with congestion-triggered standing orders	3
Strategic placement of volunteer responder system defibrillators	3
December 2025 issue and journal transitions	3
Determining optimal COVID-19 testing center locations and capacities	3
A queuing model for ventilator capacity management during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Unsupervised learning methods for efficient geographic clustering and identification of disease disparities with applications to county-level colorectal cancer incidence in California	2
Correction to: Prediction of hospitalization and waiting time within 24 h of emergency department patients with unstructured text data	2
Select, route and schedule: optimizing community paramedicine service delivery with mandatory visits and patient prioritization	2
Looking for the crystal ball in unscheduled care: a systematic literature review of the forecasting process	2
Generating simple classification rules to predict local surges in COVID-19 hospitalizations	2
Correction to: Select, route and schedule: optimizing community paramedicine service delivery with mandatory visits and patient prioritization	2
Managing a multi-panel clinic with heterogeneous patients	2
Data in ambulatory care logistics: What modelers need and what practice can offer	2
Fair allocation strategies for opioid settlements	2
Effectiveness of feedback control and the trade-off between death by COVID-19 and costs of countermeasures	2

Managing low–acuity patients in an Emergency Department through simulation–based multiobjective optimization using a neural network metamodel	2
Performance measurement of nonhomogeneous Hong Kong hospitals using directional distance functions	2
A stochastic programming model for trauma hospital network expansion considering rural communities and COVID-19	2
The benefits (or detriments) of adapting to demand disruptions in a hospital pharmacy with supply chain disruptions	2
Intraday dynamic rescheduling under patient no-shows	2
Innovations in early detection of chronic non-communicable diseases among adolescents through an easy-to-Use AutoML paradigm	2
Managing surgical waiting lists through dynamic priority scoring	2