OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal is 4. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility in a closed-loop supply chain under government subsidy and used products collection strategies	21
Robust berth scheduling using machine learning for vessel arrival time prediction	16
Order review and release in make-to-order flow shops: analysis and design of new methods	15
Condition-based maintenance strategy optimization of meta-action unit considering imperfect preventive maintenance based on Wiener process	14
Robust container slot allocation with uncertain demand for liner shipping services	13
Subsidy policies and operational strategies for multiple competing photovoltaic supply chains	12
Sustainable partial backordering inventory model under linked-to-order credit policy and all-units discount with capacity constraint and carbon emissions	12
Robust scheduling and dispatching rules for high-mix collaborative manufacturing systems	12
The integrated orderline batching, batch scheduling, and picker routing problem with multiple pickers: the benefits of splitting customer orders	11
Integrating preventive maintenance to two-stage assembly flow shop scheduling: MILP model, constructive heuristics and meta-heuristics	11
Defining accurate delivery dates in make to order job-shops managed by workload control	11
A heuristic algorithm for identical parallel machine scheduling: splitting jobs, sequence-dependent setup times, and limited setup operators	11
Addressing consistency and demand uncertainty in the Home Care planning problem	10
A multi-objective mathematical model and evolutionary algorithm for the dual-resource flexible job-shop scheduling problem with sequencing flexibility	10
Revenue management with two fare classes in synchromodal container transportation	10
Deep learning models for vessel’s ETA prediction: bulk ports perspective	9
Order and rack sequencing in a robotic mobile fulfillment system with multiple picking stations	9
A Monte-Carlo tree search algorithm for the flexible job-shop scheduling in manufacturing systems	9
Balancing earliness and tardiness within workload control order release: an assessment by simulation	9
Solving the picker routing problem in multi-block high-level storage systems using metaheuristics	9
To team up or not: single versus team driving in European road freight transport	8
A bi-objective multi-population biased random key genetic algorithm for joint scheduling quay cranes and speed adjustable vehicles in container terminals	8
Simulation optimization iteration approach on traffic integrated yard allocation problem in transshipment terminals	7
Machine-based identification system via optical character recognition	7
Anticipatory approach for dynamic and stochastic shipment matching in hinterland synchromodal transportation	7

Determining the optimal piecewise constant approximation for the nonhomogeneous Poisson process rate of Emergency Department patient arrivals	7
Ramping up a heuristic procedure for storage location assignment problem with precedence constraints	7
Tiered prediction models for port vessel emissions inventories	6
Self-adaptive memetic algorithms for multi-objective single machine learning-effect scheduling problems with release times	6
Leasing or selling? The channel choice of durable goods manufacturer considering consumers’ capital constraint	6
Integrated optimization on production scheduling and imperfect preventive maintenance considering multi-degradation and learning-forgetting effects	6
Information sharing in decentralised supply chains with partial collaboration	5
Integrated production and maintenance planning under uncertain demand with concurrent learning of yield rate	5
Data-driven dynamic stacking strategy for export containers in container terminals	5
Choice-driven location-allocation model for healthcare facility location problem	5
AI for in-line vehicle sequence controlling: development and evaluation of an adaptive machine learning artifact to predict sequence deviations in a mixed-model production line	5
Demand modelling for emergency medical service system with multiple casualties cases: k-inflated mixture regression model	5
Integrated task sequence planning and assignment for human–robot collaborative assembly station	4
Flexible master surgery scheduling: combining optimization and simulation in a rolling horizon approach	4
Physician scheduling for outpatient department with nonhomogeneous patient arrival and priority queue	4
Maritime inventory routing with transshipment: the case of Yamal LNG	4
Integrated optimization of electric vehicles charging location and allocation for valet charging service	4
Bullwhip effect in closed-loop supply chains with multiple reverse flows: a simulation study	4
Berth planning and real-time disruption recovery: a simulation study for a tidal port	4