Papers on “inventory management”
Research on “inventory management” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “inventory management” appeared in 927 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (716), AI (54) and finance (40).
- 139 of them were published in 2025, against 97 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (10), Eindhoven University of Technology (9) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were European Journal of Operational Research (43), Computers & Industrial Engineering (40) and International Journal of Production Economics (33).
- The most-cited of them is “Omni-channel management in the new retailing era: A systematic review and future research agenda” (International Journal of Production Economics, 2020), with 342 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations Research | 86 | 63 | 55 | 60 | 65 | 78 | 76 | 68 | 100 | 65 |
| AI | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 3 | 14 | 6 |
| Finance | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 12 |
| Economics | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 |
| Management | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| Information Systems | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Marketing | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Accounting | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 97 | 80 | 66 | 78 | 80 | 92 | 102 | 93 | 139 | 100 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | European Journal of Operational Research | 43 |
| 2 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 40 |
| 3 | International Journal of Production Economics | 33 |
| 4 | Annals of Operations Research | 31 |
| 5 | Expert Systems with Applications | 28 |
| 6 | Omega | 19 |
| 7 | Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review | 19 |
| 8 | Computers & Operations Research | 17 |
| 9 | Supply Chain Analytics | 14 |
| 10 | Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services | 10 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 10 |
| 2 | Eindhoven University of Technology | 9 |
| 3 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 8 |
| 4 | Tecnológico de Monterrey | 7 |
| 5 | University of Tehran | 6 |
| 6 | Yonsei University | 6 |
| 7 | Iran University of Science and Technology | 5 |
| 8 | University of Science and Technology of China | 5 |
| 9 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 5 |
| 10 | HEC Montréal | 4 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 94 |
| 2 | United States | 77 |
| 3 | India | 38 |
| 4 | Iran | 36 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 35 |
| 6 | France | 27 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 23 |
| 8 | Canada | 22 |
| 9 | Germany | 17 |
| 10 | Hong Kong | 17 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand uncertainty | 53 |
| 2 | demand forecasting | 46 |
| 3 | perishable goods | 27 |
| 4 | supply chain resilience | 25 |
| 5 | production planning | 22 |
| 6 | supply chain management | 22 |
| 7 | stockouts | 19 |
| 8 | newsvendor problem | 18 |
| 9 | stochastic demand | 17 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 342 | 4.3 | Omni-channel management in the new retailing era: A systematic review and future research agenda | International Journal of Production Economics | 2020-04-06 | Ya-Jun Cai, Chris K.Y. Lo |
| 2 | 337 | 3.4 | Managing a dual-channel supply chain under price and delivery-time dependent stochastic demand | European Journal of Operational Research | 2018-06-25 | Nikunja Mohan Modak, Péter Kelle |
| 3 | 282 | 2.7 | Measuring the logistics performance of internal hospital supply chains – A literature study | Omega | 2018-01-31 | Karen Moons, Geert Waeyenbergh, Liliane M. Pintelon |
| 4 | 262 | 2.7 | Exploring the use of deep neural networks for sales forecasting in fashion retail | Decision Support Systems | 2018-08-29 | A.L.D. Loureiro, Vera Lucia Miguéis, Lucas F. M. da Silva |
| 5 | 247 | 2.2 | Robust sample average approximation | Mathematical Programming | 2017-06-29 | Dimitris Bertsimas, Vishal Gupta, Nathan Kallus |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “inventory management”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/inventory-management
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