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title: "Container freight indices (SCFI, WCI): papers using it"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 9 archived papers mentioned Container freight indices (SCFI, WCI) in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Feb 2024 (1)."
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updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
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# Container freight indices (SCFI, WCI)

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/2.md)

Vessel and flight tracking, freight rate indices and data on firms' supplier and customer links.

- data category: Shipping, logistics and supply chain data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Shanghai Containerized Freight Index, China Containerized Freight Index, Drewry World Container Index, Freightos Baltic Index, SCFI, CCFI

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Shipping, logistics and supply chain data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/shipping-logistics-and-supply-chain-data.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 9 archived papers mentioned Container freight indices (SCFI, WCI) in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Feb 2024 (1).
- No paper of the tracked journals mentioned Container freight indices (SCFI, WCI) in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Container freight indices (SCFI, WCI) was mentioned in 9 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (6), operations research (1) and information systems (1).
- 2 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Erasmus University Rotterdam (2), Antwerp Maritime Academy (1) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (1).
- The journals publishing most of them were Maritime Economics & Logistics (5), Computers & Security (1) and Research in Transportation Economics (1).
- The most-cited of them is “The Red Sea Crisis: ramifications for vessel operations, shipping networks, and maritime supply chains” (Maritime Economics & Logistics, 2024), with 167 citations.

## Mentions over 36 months

*Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)*

| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Maritime Economics & Logistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/maritime-economics-logistics.md) | 5 |
| 2 | [Computers & Security](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-security.md) | 1 |
| 3 | [Research in Transportation Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-transportation-economics.md) | 1 |
| 4 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 1 |
| 5 | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Erasmus University Rotterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/erasmus-university-rotterdam.md) | 2 |
| 2 | Antwerp Maritime Academy | 1 |
| 3 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 1 |
| 4 | [Dalian Maritime University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/dalian-maritime-university.md) | 1 |
| 5 | [Ghent University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ghent-university.md) | 1 |
| 6 | Institute of Information Engineering | 1 |
| 7 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Samsung (South Korea)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/samsung-south-korea.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [Shanghai Maritime University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-maritime-university.md) | 1 |
| 10 | Soonchunhyang University | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 4 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 2 |
| 3 | South Korea | 2 |
| 4 | Netherlands | 2 |
| 5 | Belgium | 1 |
| 6 | Denmark | 1 |
| 7 | France | 1 |
| 8 | Japan | 1 |
| 9 | Malaysia | 1 |
| 10 | Sweden | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | container shipping | 3 |
| 2 | freight rates | 3 |
| 3 | Red Sea crisis | 2 |
| 4 | charter rates | 2 |
| 5 | long short-term memory | 2 |
| 6 | shipping industry | 2 |
| 7 | BDI | 1 |
| 8 | CEC2017 benchmark | 1 |
| 9 | CatBoost | 1 |
| 10 | Gaza conflict | 1 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 167 | 5.1 | [The Red Sea Crisis: ramifications for vessel operations, shipping networks, and maritime supply chains](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41278-024-00287-z) | [Maritime Economics & Logistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/maritime-economics-logistics.md) | 2024-02-20 | Theo Notteboom, Hercules E. Haralambides, Kevin Cullinane |
| 2 | 44 | 1.6 | [The Red Sea crisis and chokepoints to trade and international shipping](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41278-024-00296-y) | [Maritime Economics & Logistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/maritime-economics-logistics.md) | 2024-08-12 | Hercules E. Haralambides |
| 3 | 10 | 0.6 | [Box rates unveiled: Predictive analytics for ocean freight rates with system dynamics and text mining under supply chain disruptions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109669) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2025-05-06 | Jun-Woo Jeon, Çağatay Iris, Sungchul Hong et al. |
| 4 | 7 | 0.6 | [The spillover effects of trade policy uncertainty on the shipping industry](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.retrec.2025.101656) | [Research in Transportation Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-transportation-economics.md) | 2025-10-31 | Yanhui Chen, Chujun Chen, Kaniz Fatema et al. |
| 5 | 3 | 0.4 | [Volatility in shipping markets: a multi-perspective analysis using time series and deep learning models](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41278-026-00348-5) | [Maritime Economics & Logistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/maritime-economics-logistics.md) | 2026-02-25 | Jasmine Siu Lee Lam, Qingyao Li, Shuyi Pu |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Container freight indices (SCFI, WCI). Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/container-freight-indices-scfi-wci

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Container freight indices (SCFI, WCI)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/container-freight-indices-scfi-wci}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).