OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Lean Six Sigma 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Lean Six Sigma as an organizational resilience mechanism in health care during the era of COVID-19	46
Critical review of literature on Lean Six Sigma methodology	46
The application of Lean Six Sigma and supply chain resilience in maritime industry during the era of COVID-19	43
Investigation and modeling of lean six sigma barriers in small and medium-sized industries using hybrid ISM-SEM approach	41
Lean supply chain management and Industry 4.0: a systematic literature review	38
Green Lean Six Sigma sustainability – oriented project selection and implementation framework for manufacturing industry	37
Sustainability excellence: the interactions of lean production, internal green practices and green product innovation	30
Success factors for the adoption of green lean six sigma in healthcare facility: an ISM-MICMAC study	29
A reconsideration of Lean Six Sigma in healthcare after the COVID-19 crisis	29
Implementation of lean in IT SME company: an Italian case	26
A systematic literature review of lean manufacturing implementation in manufacturing-based sectors of the developing and developed countries	26
Industrial revolution and environmental sustainability: an analytical interpretation of research constituents in Industry 4.0	25
The significance of employee behaviours and soft management practices to avoid digital waste during a digital transformation	24
Lean and resilience in the healthcare supply chain – a scoping review	24
Are Industry 4.0 technologies enablers of lean? Evidence from manufacturing industries	24
Modern divulge in production optimization: an implementation framework of LARG manufacturing with Industry 4.0	24
Green Lean Six Sigma for sustainability improvement: a systematic review and future research agenda	23
A toolset for complex decision-making in analyze phase of Lean Six Sigma project: a case validation	21
Role of Lean Six Sigma in the Indian MSMEs during COVID-19	21
Critical success factors of Lean Six Sigma from leaders’ perspective	19
Six sigma project prioritization and selection: a multi-criteria decision making approach in healthcare industry	19
Challenges and action plans in construction sector owing to COVID-19 pandemic – a case in Indonesia real estates	19
Prospect of lean practices towards construction supply chain management trends	18
A comparative analysis of green-lean-six sigma enablers and environmental outcomes: a natural resource-based view	18
Future research methodologies of lean manufacturing: a systematic literature review	18

Exploring relationships for integrating lean, environmental sustainability and industry 4.0	16
Quality 4.0 – an evolution of Six Sigma DMAIC	16
Integrated Green Lean Six Sigma-Industry 4.0 approach to combat COVID-19: from literature review to framework development	15
Teaching a Lean masterclass in the metaverse	14
Interdependency analysis of lean manufacturing practices in case of Bulgarian SMEs: interpretive structural modelling and interpretive ranking modelling approach	14
Leading from the middle: how team leaders implement lean success factors	14
Soft and hard skills development in lean management trainings	13
Lean innovation training and transformational leadership for employee creative role identity and innovative work behavior in a public service organization	13
Lean supply chain management and Industry 4.0 interrelationships: the status quo and future perspectives	13
Using lean techniques and discrete-event simulation for performance improvement in an outpatient clinic	12
Celebrating a decade ofInternational Journal of Lean Six Sigma– a bibliometric analysis to uncover the “as is” and “to be” states	12
ISM–ANP hybrid approach to prioritize the barriers in green lean Six Sigma implementation in construction sector	12
Addressing critical failure factors and barriers in implementing Lean Six Sigma in Italian public hospitals	12
Using Lean Six Sigma to improve timeliness of clinical laboratory test results in a university hospital in Egypt	12
Implementing Lean Six Sigma in health care: a review of case studies	11
Lean management in universities: a systematic literature review	11
Lean thinking in service digital transformation	11
Barriers for Lean implementation in the textile industry	11
Analysis of the relationship between barriers and practices in the lean supply chain management	11
A multicase study approach in Indian manufacturing SMEs to investigate the effect of Lean manufacturing practices on sustainability performance	11
A case study for surgical mask production during the COVID-19 pandemic: continuous improvement with Kaizen and 5S applications	10
Lean implementation: analysis of individual-level factors in a biopharmaceutical organisation	10
A decade of the international journal of lean six sigma: bibliometric overview	10
A relationship between bias, lean tools, and waste	10
An integrated spherical fuzzy AHP multi-criteria method for Covid-19 crisis management in regarding lean six sigma	10
The Lean principle respect for people as respect for craftsmanship	10
Experience of lean application in higher education institutions	10
Impact of lean six sigma at pharmacy unit on hospital profitability before and during Covid-19 pandemic	10
Relationships among lean, service quality expectation and performance in hospitals	10
Providing a model of LeAgile hybrid paradigm practices and its impact on supply chain performance	9
How to assess and improve the triple bottom line (TBL) in manufacturing processes: a real case in home appliance manufacturing	9
Industry 4.0 and Lean Manufacturing – a systematic review of the state-of-the-art literature and key recommendations for future research	9
The HyDAPI framework: a versatile tool integrating Lean Six Sigma and digitalisation for improved quality management in Industry 4.0	9
Impact of lean manufacturing: evidence from apparel industry in Bangladesh	9
Prioritizing the mitigation strategies to lean and green barriers using fuzzy BWM-FTOPSIS method in the food supply chain: an empirical case study	9
Human centred lean – introducing the people value stream	9
Competitive advantage through Six Sigma in sand casting industry to improve overall first-pass yield: a case study of SSE	8
Effective hospital-wide lean implementation: top-down, bottom-up or through co-creative role modeling?	8
The impact of lean manufacturing practices on operational and business performances at SMES in the wooden furniture industry	8
Transportation performance improvement through lean thinking implementation	8
Integration of Six Sigma methodology of DMADV steps with QFD, DFMEA and TRIZ applications for image-based automated inspection system development: a case study	8
Fostering insights and improvements from IIoT systems at the shop floor: a case of industry 4.0 and lean complementarity enabled by action learning	8
Implementing Lean Six Sigma methodology to reduce the logistics cost: a case study in Turkey	7
Effects of lean distributed manufacturing on factory’s resilience: the current practice in UK food manufacturing sector	7
Applications of six sigma for service quality enhancement in the UAE: a multiple case study analysis and lessons learned	7
An Analysis of hospital characteristics on lean and service quality	7
Top management commitment and lean team members’ prosocial voice behaviour	7
Six sigma in health-care service: a case study on COVID 19 patients’ satisfaction	7
Application of Six Sigma methodology using DMAIC approach for a packaging olives production system: a case study	6
The growing gap between lean production and digital lean tools	6

Practical implications of Lean, Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma in the public administration sector: a systematic literature review	6
An integrated lean and ISO 14001 framework for environmental performance: an assessment of New Zealand meat industry	6
Six sigma project prioritization and selection methods: a systematic literature review	6
Exploratory factor analysis of barriers to lean construction based on Brazilian managers' perceptions	6
Monitoring of overall equipment effectiveness by multivariate statistical process control	6
Orchestrated learning: creating a company-specific production system (XPS)	6
A systematic literature review (SLR) comparing Japanese Lean philosophy and the South African Ubuntu philosophy	6
Process mining and lean six sigma: a novel approach to analyze the supply chain quality of a hospital	6
Investigating the impacts of ISO 9001 certification on lean manufacturing and supply chain relationship: an empirical analysis	6
Learning of quality improvement theory – experiences with reflective learning from a student perspective	5
Critical success factors of Lean in Higher Education: an international perspective	5
Predictive Six Sigma for Turkish manufacturers: utilization of machine learning tools in DMAIC	5
Examining of the effect of HRM in mitigating negative effects of LM&SS on employee well-being in health care	5
Revolutionizing healthcare organizations with Operational Excellence and Healthcare 4.0: a systematic review of the state-of-the-art literature	5
Interrelationships among lean HRM practices and their impact on firm performance: a comparison between the Jordanian and German models	5
Tracing the lean thinking in supply chain management: a comprehensive main path analysis	5
Mapping the lean supply chain management research through citation classics	5
Lean healthcare implications in an occupational medicine clinic	5
A leadership maturity model for implementing Six Sigma in academic institutions – using case studies to build theory	5
A systematic review on implementing operational excellence as a strategy to ensure regulatory compliance: a roadmap for Indian pharmaceutical industry	4
Status of Lean Six Sigma implementation in Indian industries: a cross-sectional national survey	4
Standardizing Six Sigma Green Belt training: identification of the most frequently used measure phase DMAIC tools	4
Process improvement project failure: a systematic literature review and future research agenda	4
Lean waste assessment in a laboratory for training chemical analysts for the pharmaceutical industry	4
Roadmap for product development based on design for six sigma method	4
Integration of Six Sigma and simulations in real production factory to improve performance – a case study analysis	4
An implementation model for digitisation of visual management to develop a smart manufacturing process	4
A fuzzy maturity-based method for lean supply chain management assessment	4
An empirical investigation of the role of lean six sigma practices on quality performance in medical device manufacturing industry	4
How to build a quality management climate in a small to medium enterprise: an action research project	4
A visual and rhetorical perspective on management control systems	4
Exploring the influence of lean manufacturing and total quality management practices on environmental sustainability: the moderating role of quality culture	4
Implementing and sustaining lean, buyer-supplier role, and COVID-19 pandemic: insights from the garment industry of Bangladesh	4
Physics-based trade-off curves to develop a control access product in set-based concurrent engineering environment	4
Business process management effectiveness and maturity through lean management practices: the Brazilian federal police experience	4
Development of a retail supply chain process reference model incorporating Lean Six Sigma initiatives	4
Turning the lean world upside down	4
Implementing a customised Lean Six Sigma methodology at a compound animal feed manufacturer in Ireland	4
Why do process improvement projects fail in organizations? A review and future research agenda	3
A sustainable solution for lean barriers through a fuzzy DEMATEL methodology with a case study from the Indian manufacturing industry	3
Sustain or perish: how lean manufacturing practices predict the sustainable performance of manufacturing SMEs? A moderated mediation analysis	3
Improving access to frontline psychosocial services for youths in difficulty by using LSS: an action research case study	3
A novel belief-based QFD-AHP model in interval type-2 fuzzy environment for lean after-sales service in automotive industry	3
Virtual reality supported trainings for lean education: conceptualization, design and evaluation of competency-oriented teaching-learning environments	3
Towards the development of a system-wide quality improvement maturity model: a synthesis using systematic review and expert opinion	3
The adoption of Lean in the Greek public sector. An employee perspective	3
Investigating building information modelling (BIM) and lean construction: the potential BIM-lean interactions synergy and integration in the Jordanian construction industry	3
Product-service system leanness assessment model: study of a UK manufacturing company	3
Lean construction and resilience while coping with the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of construction companies in Brazil	3
BIM and lean construction in prefabricated housing construction in China	3
Application of Lean Six Sigma for yield improvement in the stainless steel industry: a recipe from Türkiye	3
Making a virtue of necessity once again: assessing the effect of temporary labor on lean practices in highly routinized environments	3