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title: "Inventory management research: papers and trends"
description: "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)."
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# 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.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/keywords.md

## 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 86 | 63 | 55 | 60 | 65 | 78 | 76 | 68 | 100 | 65 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 3 | 14 | 6 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 12 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 43 |
| 2 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 40 |
| 3 | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 33 |
| 4 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 31 |
| 5 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 28 |
| 6 | [Omega](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/omega.md) | 19 |
| 7 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 19 |
| 8 | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | 17 |
| 9 | [Supply Chain Analytics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/supply-chain-analytics.md) | 14 |
| 10 | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 10 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 10 |
| 2 | [Eindhoven University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/eindhoven-university-of-technology.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 8 |
| 4 | Tecnológico de Monterrey | 7 |
| 5 | [University of Tehran](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-tehran.md) | 6 |
| 6 | [Yonsei University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/yonsei-university.md) | 6 |
| 7 | Iran University of Science and Technology | 5 |
| 8 | [University of Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [HEC Montréal](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hec-montreal.md) | 4 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [demand uncertainty](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/demand-uncertainty.md) | 53 |
| 2 | demand forecasting | 46 |
| 3 | perishable goods | 27 |
| 4 | [supply chain resilience](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/supply-chain-resilience.md) | 25 |
| 5 | production planning | 22 |
| 6 | [supply chain management](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/supply-chain-management.md) | 22 |
| 7 | stockouts | 19 |
| 8 | newsvendor problem | 18 |
| 9 | stochastic demand | 17 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2020.107729) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.05.067) | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 2018-06-25 | Nikunja Mohan Modak, Péter Kelle |
| 3 | 282 | 2.7 | [Measuring the logistics performance of internal hospital supply chains – A literature study](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2018.01.007) | [Omega](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/omega.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2018.08.010) | [Decision Support Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decision-support-systems.md) | 2018-08-29 | A.L.D. Loureiro, Vera Lucia Miguéis, Lucas F. M. da Silva |
| 5 | 247 | 2.2 | [Robust sample average approximation](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10107-017-1174-z) | [Mathematical Programming](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming.md) | 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 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/inventory-management

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “inventory management”},
  year = {2026},
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  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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