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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. 10.0% 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%
4.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+53%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
45% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization

Which countries lead Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization research?

By volume, China and Indonesia publish the most (3.8k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.8k works
  2. 2 Indonesia 1.2k works
  3. 3 India 871 works
  4. 4 United States 740 works
  5. 5 Germany 473 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 297 works
  7. 7 Japan 295 works
  8. 8 France 281 works
  9. 9 Italy 275 works
  10. 10 Russia 216 works

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.

China: 45.0%Indonesia: 14.2%India: 10.3%United States: 8.8%6 others listed: 21.7%45%largest
China3,802 · 45.0%Indonesia1,199 · 14.2%India871 · 10.3%United States740 · 8.8%6 others listed1,837 · 21.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization research?

By volume in 2022-now, Wuhan University of Technology publishes the most Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization research, followed by Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 91 works
  2. 2 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 80 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 75 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 60 works
  5. 5 Shanghai UniversityChina 56 works
  6. 6 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 55 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 53 works
  8. 8 Tongji UniversityChina 51 works
  9. 9 Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 51 works
  10. 10 Northeastern UniversityChina 46 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization include Wei Huang, Xiaogang Wang and Kalyanmoy Deb.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  3. 3 Kalyanmoy Deb United States 171k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization?

The most cited paper in Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization is "The Truck Dispatching Problem" (George B. Dantzig, J. H. Ramser, 1959), with 4,980 citations. Next come "Scheduling of Vehicles from a Central Depot to a Number of Delivery Points" (3,908) and "Knapsack Problems: Algorithms and Computer Implementations" (3,161).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Truck Dispatching Problem George B. Dantzig, J. H. Ramser · Management Science Oct 1959 4,980
2 Scheduling of Vehicles from a Central Depot to a Number of Delivery Points Graham Clarke, J. W. Wright · Operations Research Aug 1964 3,908
3 Knapsack Problems: Algorithms and Computer Implementations David Connolly, Silvano Martello, Paolo Toth · Journal of the Operational Research Society Jun 1991 3,161
4 The Complexity of Flowshop and Jobshop Scheduling Michael R. Garey, David Johnson, Ravi Sethi · Mathematics of Operations Research May 1976 2,644
5 A heuristic algorithm for the m-machine, n-job flow-shop sequencing problem Muhammad Nawaz, E. Emory Enscore, Inyong Ham · Omega 1983 2,537
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization research in 2022-now 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-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 549 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 327 works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 290 works
  4. 4 JakartaIndonesia 185 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 166 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 157 works
  7. 7 SurabayaIndonesia 144 works
  8. 8 BandungIndonesia 136 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 120 works
  10. 10 ShenyangChina 119 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. JinrongjieCN · 26.2 works25×
  2. LiaochengCN · 35.8 works15×
  3. GresikID · 28.0 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization than the world average.

See Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization on the map

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 Huazhong University of Science and 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.

0%20%40%60%mean 32.1%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Liaocheng UniversityMacau University of …Huazhong University …Hong Kong Polytechni…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Macau University of Science and TechnologyChina 80.538.1%10.8×24 +373.0%
2Liaocheng UniversityChina 80.043.6%19.6×36 +216.2%
3Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 76.735.5%4.3×80 +135.7%
4Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 68.028.8%3.3×30 +71.2%
5China University of GeosciencesChina 65.353.5%2.8×13 +615.6%
6University of Hong KongChina 65.132.4%2.0×19 +20.4%
7Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 64.315.4%10.9×91 +63.1%
8Shanghai UniversityChina 64.023.1%7.6×56 +80.6%
9Tsinghua UniversityChina 62.829.5%1.9×44 +51.9%
10Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 60.621.1%19.8×51 +151.8%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization, country by country

Is Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 53% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.071% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization0.057% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization9.9% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

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.

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