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Logistics and Transportation Systems

Logistics and Transportation Systems is a research topic within Management Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 1.7k research works in it since 1961. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to supply chain management, including logistics, inventory management, decision making, technology utilization, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on supply chains. It also explores consumer behavior, product design, and the intersection of human rights with business practices.

  • Supply Chain Management
  • Logistics
  • Inventory Management
  • Decision Making
  • Technology
  • Small and Medium Enterprises
  • Consumer Behavior
  • Product Design
  • Pandemic Impact
  • Human Rights
Research works
1.7k
fractional, since 1961
In the world top 10%
172
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+25%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Ecuador
24% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Logistics and Transportation Systems

Which countries lead Logistics and Transportation Systems research?

By volume, Ecuador and Peru publish the most (136 and 115 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ecuador 136 works
  2. 2 Peru 115 works
  3. 3 Mexico 104 works
  4. 4 Colombia 62 works
  5. 5 Russia 43 works
  6. 6 Spain 34 works
  7. 7 Chile 21 works
  8. 8 Panama 20 works
  9. 9 United States 19 works
  10. 10 Portugal 15 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.

Ecuador: 23.9%Peru: 20.2%Mexico: 18.4%Colombia: 11.0%6 others listed: 26.6%24%largest
Ecuador136 · 23.9%Peru115 · 20.2%Mexico104 · 18.4%Colombia62 · 11.0%6 others listed151 · 26.6%

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

Which institutions lead Logistics and Transportation Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidad César Vallejo publishes the most Logistics and Transportation Systems research, followed by Universidad de Panamá and Universidad Técnica de Manabí.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad César VallejoPeru 20 works
  2. 2 Universidad de PanamáPanama 18 works
  3. 3 Universidad Técnica de ManabíEcuador 16 works
  4. 4 Instituto Tecnológico Superior de XalapaMexico 15 works
  5. 5 Tecnológico Nacional de MéxicoMexico 15 works
  6. 6 Universidad Tecnica de MachalaEcuador 13 works
  7. 7 University of LisbonPortugal 13 works
  8. 8 Universidad de LimaPeru 9 works
  9. 9 Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los AndesEcuador 9 works
  10. 10 Universidad Técnica de AmbatoEcuador 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Logistics and Transportation Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Logistics and Transportation Systems include Carlos Flavián.

  1. 1 Carlos Flavián Spain 28k 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 Logistics and Transportation Systems?

The most cited paper in Logistics and Transportation Systems is "Calculation of productive capacity: From theory to practice" (Carlos Chavarría Hidalgo, 2024), with 99 citations. Next come "La relación entre la calidad en el servicio, satisfacción del cliente y lealtad del cliente: un estudio de caso de una empresa comercial en México" (90) and "Psychology and Syllogistic Reasoning" (86).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Calculation of productive capacity: From theory to practice Carlos Chavarría Hidalgo · Ciencia y reflexión : Open access 29 Oct 2024 99
2 La relación entre la calidad en el servicio, satisfacción del cliente y lealtad del cliente: un estudio de caso de una empresa comercial en México Juan Gilberto Silva Treviño, Bárbara A. Macías‐Hernández, Edgar Tello-Leal et al. · CienciaUAT Open access 30 Jan 2021 90
3 Psychology and Syllogistic Reasoning Norman E. Wetherick · Philosophical Psychology 1989 86
4 Cuantificación de la validez de contenido por criterio de jueces Luis Miguel Escurra Mayaute · Communities in DSpace (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru) Open access 1988 69
5 Marketing sensorial: el concepto, sus técnicas y su aplicación en el punto de venta Gloria Jiménez-Marín, Elena Bellido-Pérez, Ángela López-Cortés · Vivat Academia Open access 15 Sep 2019 56
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Logistics and Transportation Systems research done?

The largest centres of Logistics and Transportation Systems research in 2022-now are Lima (Peru), Trujillo (Peru), Bogotá (Colombia) and Mexico City (Mexico). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Trujillo, Ambato and Lima.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LimaPeru 47 works
  2. 2 TrujilloPeru 35 works
  3. 3 BogotáColombia 23 works
  4. 4 Mexico CityMexico 23 works
  5. 5 AmbatoEcuador 21 works
  6. 6 Panama CityPanama 20 works
  7. 7 PortoviejoEcuador 17 works
  8. 8 XalapaMexico 17 works
  9. 9 GuayaquilEcuador 15 works
  10. 10 MoscowRussia 15 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TrujilloPE · 35.0 works117×
  2. AmbatoEC · 20.7 works75×
  3. LimaPE · 46.7 works51×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Logistics and Transportation Systems than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Logistics and Transportation Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad de Lima, Universidad César Vallejo and Universidad de Panamá 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%10%20%30%mean 11.4222%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad de LimaUniversidad César Va…Universidad de PanamáUniversidad Técnica …
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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
1Universidad de LimaPeru 52.728.0%234.0×9 -
2Universidad César VallejoPeru 50.910.0%120.8×20 +52.5%
3Universidad de PanamáPanama 48.89.6%279.9×18 +562.5%
4Universidad Técnica de ManabíEcuador 42.79.3%183.5×16 +79.0%
5Instituto Tecnológico Superior de XalapaMexico 39.94.0%380.3×15 +313.0%
6Universidad Tecnica de MachalaEcuador 36.48.8%256.6×13 +78.0%
7University of LisbonPortugal 36.45.0%27.4×13 +989.6%
8Universidad Técnica de AmbatoEcuador 28.822.9%91.2×8 -37.3%
9Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los AndesEcuador 16.65.2%70.8×9 +336.2%

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 Logistics and Transportation Systems, country by country

Is Logistics and Transportation Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Logistics and Transportation Systems.

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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 Logistics and Transportation Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Logistics and Transportation Systems 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%Logistics and Transportation Systems10.0% in 202520102020

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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