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Transport and Logistics Innovations

Transport and Logistics Innovations is a research topic within Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Science Explorer counts 7.6k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on various aspects of transportation and logistics management, including logistics systems design, sustainable human resource management, digitalization, supply chain optimization, and railway transportation. It explores topics such as the impact of human resource management on competitiveness, sustainability in globalized transportation, and the application of digital technologies for knowledge sharing and smart maintenance. The cluster reflects a multidisciplinary approach to addressing challenges and opportunities in the transportation and logistics sector.

  • Logistics
  • Transport
  • Management
  • Sustainability
  • Human Resource
  • Digitalization
  • Simulation
  • Supply Chain
  • Railway
  • Efficiency
Research works
7.6k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
757
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Transport and Logistics Innovations

Which countries lead Transport and Logistics Innovations research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (713 and 241 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 713 works
  2. 2 Ukraine 241 works
  3. 3 Slovakia 187 works
  4. 4 China 154 works
  5. 5 Poland 132 works
  6. 6 Czechia 129 works
  7. 7 United States 112 works
  8. 8 Uzbekistan 63 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 57 works
  10. 10 India 57 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.

Russia: 38.7%Ukraine: 13.1%Slovakia: 10.1%China: 8.4%6 others listed: 29.8%39%largest
Russia713 · 38.7%Ukraine241 · 13.1%Slovakia187 · 10.1%China154 · 8.4%6 others listed549 · 29.8%

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

Which institutions lead Transport and Logistics Innovations research?

By volume in 2022-now, Petersburg State Transport University publishes the most Transport and Logistics Innovations research, followed by University of Žilina and Russian University of Transport.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Petersburg State Transport UniversityRussia 106 works
  2. 2 University of ŽilinaSlovakia 77 works
  3. 3 Russian University of TransportRussia 58 works
  4. 4 Technical University of KošiceSlovakia 40 works
  5. 5 Siberian Transport UniversityRussia 34 works
  6. 6 Tashkent State Transport UniversityUzbekistan 33 works
  7. 7 Rostov State Transport UniversityRussia 33 works
  8. 8 National Transport UniversityUkraine 32 works
  9. 9 Czech Technical University in PragueCzechia 25 works
  10. 10 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Transport and Logistics Innovations?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Transport and Logistics Innovations include Christian M. Ringle and David J. Kupfer.

  1. 1 Christian M. Ringle Germany 215k citations
  2. 2 David J. Kupfer United States 87k 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 Transport and Logistics Innovations?

The most cited paper in Transport and Logistics Innovations is "Internet of Things, Big Data, Industry 4.0 – Innovative Solutions in Logistics and Supply Chains Management" (Krzysztof Witkowski, 2017), with 571 citations. Next come "Competitive Advantage Achievement through Innovation and Knowledge" (467) and "The role of the magnesium industry in protecting the environment" (424).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Internet of Things, Big Data, Industry 4.0 – Innovative Solutions in Logistics and Supply Chains Management Krzysztof Witkowski · Procedia Engineering Conference paperOpen access 2017 571
2 Competitive Advantage Achievement through Innovation and Knowledge Hana Urbancová · Journal of Competitiveness Open access 22 Mar 2013 467
3 The role of the magnesium industry in protecting the environment Eli Aghion, Boris Bronfin, Dan Eliezer · Journal of Materials Processing Technology Nov 2001 424
4 A Review of Further Directions for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning in Smart Logistics Manuel Woschank, Erwin Rauch, Helmut E. Zsifkovits · Sustainability Open access 6 May 2020 330
5 ICT in multimodal transport and technological trends: Unleashing potential for the future Irina Harris, Yingli Wang, Haiyang S. Wang · International Journal of Production Economics Open access 16 Sep 2014 326
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Transport and Logistics Innovations research done?

The largest centres of Transport and Logistics Innovations research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine) and Žilina (Slovakia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Žilina, Košice and Rostov-on-Don.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 196 works
  2. 2 Saint PetersburgRussia 154 works
  3. 3 KyivUkraine 79 works
  4. 4 ŽilinaSlovakia 78 works
  5. 5 KharkivUkraine 56 works
  6. 6 Rostov-on-DonRussia 50 works
  7. 7 TashkentUzbekistan 49 works
  8. 8 PragueCzechia 44 works
  9. 9 KošiceSlovakia 43 works
  10. 10 BeijingChina 42 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ŽilinaSK · 77.6 works274×
  2. KošiceSK · 42.9 works66×
  3. Rostov-on-DonRU · 50.2 works44×
  4. VoronezhRU · 29.2 works33×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Transport and Logistics Innovations?

Among universities, judged by research, Tashkent State Transport University, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and University of Žilina 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 15.35%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Tashkent State Trans…Comenius University …Vilnius Gediminas Te…University of Žilina
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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
1Tashkent State Transport UniversityUzbekistan 78.627.0%252.9×33 +178.8%
2Vilnius Gediminas Technical UniversityLithuania 68.320.8%90.3×20 +90.8%
3University of ŽilinaSlovakia 67.418.0%314.1×77 -50.4%
4Comenius University BratislavaSlovakia 66.922.2%22.6×9 +53.7%
5Petersburg State Transport UniversityRussia 58.15.2%744.3×106 +234.7%
6Technical University of KošiceSlovakia 54.615.9%126.6×40 -37.4%
7Institute of Technology and BusinessCzechia 53.418.6%281.3×10 -69.2%
8Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 49.417.2%12.9×17 +139.5%
9Russian University of TransportRussia 48.73.9%425.8×58 +15.5%
10National Transport UniversityUkraine 43.74.7%443.9×32 +14.0%

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 Transport and Logistics Innovations, country by country

Is Transport and Logistics Innovations research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Transport and Logistics Innovations.

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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 Transport and Logistics Innovations as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0091% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Transport and Logistics Innovations0.0098% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Transport and Logistics Innovations 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%Transport and Logistics Innovations10.3% 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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