Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization
Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization is a research topic within Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Science Explorer counts 49k research works in it since 1950. 17.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the design and control of warehouse operations, including topics such as order picking, facility layout, automated guided vehicles, cellular manufacturing systems, dynamic facility layout, material handling systems, storage assignment, robotic fulfillment systems, and e-commerce warehousing.
- Warehouse Design
- Order Picking
- Facility Layout
- Automated Guided Vehicles
- Cellular Manufacturing Systems
- Dynamic Facility Layout
- Material Handling Systems
- Storage Assignment
- Robotic Fulfillment Systems
- E-commerce Warehousing
- Research works
- 49k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 8.4k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 17.2% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +24% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization research?
By volume, China and Indonesia publish the most (3.5k and 1.2k works in 2022–2025).
How concentrated that is
The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Wuhan University of Technology publishes the most Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization research, followed by Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Shanghai University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 89 works
- 2 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 77 works
- 3 Shanghai UniversityChina 55 works
- 4 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 54 works
- 5 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 49 works
- 6 Tongji UniversityChina 49 works
- 7 Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 48 works
- 8 Northeastern UniversityChina 44 works
- 9 Tsinghua UniversityChina 42 works
- 10 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 38 works
Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization include MengChu Zhou and Xin Yao.
- 1 MengChu Zhou United States 4.4k citations
- 2 Xin Yao United Kingdom 3.5k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization research done?
The largest centres of Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Wuhan (China) and Jakarta (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Jinrongjie, Liaocheng and Gresik.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- JinrongjieCN · 24.9 works26×
- LiaochengCN · 34.5 works15×
- GresikID · 26.3 works10×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization?
Among universities, judged by research, Macau University of Science and Technology, Liaocheng University and Wuhan University of Technology score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Macau University of Science and TechnologyMacau | 66.2 | 39.7% | 9.0× | 22 | +54.1% |
| 2 | Liaocheng UniversityChina | 62.3 | 47.9% | 17.3× | 34 | -71.1% |
| 3 | Wuhan University of TechnologyChina | 57.1 | 19.5% | 9.9× | 89 | -34.1% |
| 4 | Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina | 52.8 | 22.9% | 17.3× | 48 | -60.2% |
| 5 | Shanghai UniversityChina | 52.3 | 24.1% | 6.8× | 55 | +44.5% |
| 6 | Wuhan University of Science and TechnologyChina | 51.7 | 28.4% | 7.8× | 29 | +54.1% |
| 7 | Ho Chi Minh City University of TechnologyVietnam | 51.4 | 7.1% | 14.9× | 20 | +152.8% |
| 8 | Yaşar UniversityTürkiye | 50.9 | 7.5% | 33.5× | 14 | +200.9% |
| 9 | Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina | 50.8 | 39.6% | 4.3× | 77 | -44.3% |
| 10 | Shenyang Aerospace UniversityChina | 50.1 | 35.5% | 11.6× | 18 | -52.2% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 24% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
Which topics inside it are moving
Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.