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Business and Management

D-Index
52
Citations
15575
World Ranking
859
National Ranking
32

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
50
Citations
15133
World Ranking
3997
National Ranking
81

Overview

Jafar Rezaei is affiliated with Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and has a significant research footprint across several intersecting domains. Their main fields of study include Business, Management and Accounting with 40 publications, Engineering with 33, and Decision Sciences with 27. Subfields of focus encompass Management Information Systems and Management Science and Operations Research (each with 22 publications), Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (16), Strategy and Management (14), and Building and Construction (9).

Their research topics address complex decision-making and logistics issues, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach. Main topics covered in Rezaei's work are:

  • Multi-Criteria Decision Making
  • Maritime Ports and Logistics
  • Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Urban and Freight Transport Logistics
  • Rough Sets and Fuzzy Logic
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization

Rezaei has contributed to a range of journals, frequently publishing in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal (4 publications), Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (3), International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (2), Omega (2), and International Journal of Production Economics (2). Their publication record includes both journal articles and books.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Rezaei include:

  • A Concentration Ratio for Nonlinear Best Worst Method, 2020, International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making
  • Barriers and overcoming strategies to supply chain sustainability innovation, 2020, Resources Conservation and Recycling
  • Critical success factors for a circular economy: Implications for business strategy and the environment, 2020, Business Strategy and the Environment
  • Ensemble ranking: Aggregation of rankings produced by different multi-criteria decision-making methods, 2020, Omega
  • The Role of Ecosystem Data Governance in Adoption of Data Platforms by Internet-of-Things Data Providers: Case of Dutch Horticulture Industry, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Rezaei has also contributed to book publications with Springer International Publishing, including:

  • Strategic Decision Making for Sustainable Management of Industrial Networks, 2021
  • Advances in Best-Worst Method, 2023

Throughout their career, Rezaei has collaborated frequently with several researchers. The most common co-authors are Lóránt Tavasszy (16 joint publications), Majid Mohammadi (11), Patrick B.M. Fahim (5), Benoît Montreuil (4), and Siamak Kheybari (4).

Best Publications

  • Best-worst multi-criteria decision-making method

    Jafar Rezaei

  • Best-worst multi-criteria decision-making method: Some properties and a linear model

    Jafar Rezaei

  • A supplier selection life cycle approach integrating traditional and environmental criteria using the best worst method

    Jafar Rezaei;Thomas Nispeling;Joseph Sarkis;Lori Tavasszy

  • Assessing the social sustainability of supply chains using Best Worst Method

    Hadi Badri Ahmadi;Simonov Kusi-Sarpong;Jafar Rezaei

  • Linking supplier development to supplier segmentation using Best Worst Method

    Jafar Rezaei;Jing Wang;Lori Tavasszy

  • Measuring the relative importance of the logistics performance index indicators using Best Worst Method

    Jafar Rezaei;Wilco S. van Roekel;Lori Tavasszy

  • Barriers and overcoming strategies to supply chain sustainability innovation

    Himanshu Gupta;Simonov Kusi-Sarpong;Jafar Rezaei

  • Quality assessment of airline baggage handling systems using SERVQUAL and BWM

    Jafar Rezaei;Oshan Kothadiya;Lori Tavasszy;Maarten Kroesen

  • Bayesian best-worst method: A probabilistic group decision making model

    Majid Mohammadi;Jafar Rezaei

  • Evaluating firms' R&D performance using best worst method.

    Negin Salimi;Jafar Rezaei

  • Multi-criteria supplier segmentation using a fuzzy preference relations based AHP

    Jafar Rezaei;Roland Ortt

  • Supplier selection in the airline retail industry using a funnel methodology: Conjunctive screening method and fuzzy AHP

    Jafar Rezaei;Patrick B.M. Fahim;Lori Tavasszy

  • Critical success factors for a circular economy : Implications for business strategy and the environment

    Md. Abdul Moktadir;Anil Kumar;Syed Mithun Ali;Sanjoy Kumar Paul

  • Consistency issues in the best worst method : Measurements and thresholds

    Fuqi Liang;Matteo Brunelli;Jafar Rezaei

  • Evaluation of the external forces affecting the sustainability of oil and gas supply chain using Best Worst Method

    Wan Nurul Karimah Wan Ahmad;Wan Nurul Karimah Wan Ahmad;Jafar Rezaei;Saman Sadaghiani;Lóránt A. Tavasszy

  • Multi-objective models for lot-sizing with supplier selection

    Jafar Rezaei;Mansoor Davoodi

  • Entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance: the mediating role of functional performances

    Jafar Rezaei;Roland Ortt

  • A grey-based green supplier selection model for uncertain environments

    Seyed Amin Seyed Haeri;Jafar Rezaei

  • A deterministic, multi-item inventory model with supplier selection and imperfect quality

    Jafar Rezaei;Mansoor Davoodi

  • Bioethanol facility location selection using best-worst method

    Siamak Kheybari;Siamak Kheybari;Mostafa Kazemi;Jafar Rezaei

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph Sarkis
Joseph Sarkis Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Benoit Montreuil
Benoit Montreuil Georgia Institute of Technology
Miłosz Kadziński
Miłosz Kadziński Poznań University of Technology
Paul Trott
Paul Trott University of Portsmouth
Marijn Janssen
Marijn Janssen Delft University of Technology
Behrooz Karimi
Behrooz Karimi Amirkabir University of Technology
Caspar G. Chorus
Caspar G. Chorus Delft University of Technology
Sanjoy Paul
Sanjoy Paul University of Technology Sydney
Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia
Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia Delft University of Technology
James J.H. Liou
James J.H. Liou National Taipei University of Technology

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