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Jean-Paul Rodrigue

Jean-Paul Rodrigue

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
39
Citations
16795
World Ranking
5475
National Ranking
2585

Overview

Jean-Paul Rodrigue is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within engineering and business management, with significant emphasis on industrial and manufacturing engineering, strategy and management, building and construction, general economics, econometrics and finance, and political science and international relations.

The scientist's work broadly covers topics such as maritime ports and logistics, supply chain resilience and risk management, urban and freight transport logistics, maritime transport emissions and efficiency, consumer retail behavior studies, global trade and economics, and economic zones and regional development.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Disruptions and resilience in global container shipping and ports: the COVID-19 pandemic versus the 2008-2009 financial crisis, 2021, Maritime Economics & Logistics
  • The distribution network of Amazon and the footprint of freight digitalization, 2020, Journal of Transport Geography
  • Cruise shipping supply chains and the impacts of disruptions: The case of the Caribbean, 2020, Research in Transportation Business & Management
  • Maritime container terminal infrastructure, network corporatization, and global terminal operators: Implications for international business policy, 2022, Journal of International Business Policy
  • The geography of maritime ranges: interfacing global maritime shipping networks with Hinterlands, 2020, GeoJournal

These papers illustrate a research portfolio that intersects global shipping networks, logistics disruptions, corporate structures within maritime terminal infrastructure, and regional economic impacts.

The scientist has collaborated frequently with the following coauthors:

  • Theo Notteboom
  • Ouail Oulmakki
  • Jérôme Verny
  • Athanasios A. Pallis
  • Grace W.Y. Wang

Jean-Paul Rodrigue has published multiple papers in several academic venues. Key publication venues include:

  • Journal of Shipping and Trade
  • Maritime Economics & Logistics
  • Journal of Transport Geography
  • Research in Transportation Business & Management
  • Journal of International Business Policy

The scientist has also contributed to book publications, including a recent book titled A Metric of Global Maritime Supply Chain Disruptions: The Global Supply Chain Stress Index (GSCSI), published in 2024 by Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks.

Best Publications

  • The Geography of Transport Systems

    Jean-Paul Rodrigue;Claude Comtois;Brian Slack

  • Port regionalization: towards a new phase in port development

    Theo E. Notteboom;Jean-Paul Rodrigue

  • The Transport Geography of Logistics and Freight Distribution.

    Markus Hesse;Jean-Paul Rodrigue

  • The terminalization of supply chains: reassessing the role of terminals in port/hinterland logistical relationships

    Jean-Paul Rodrigue;Theo Notteboom

  • Port Economics, Management and Policy

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  • Disruptions and resilience in global container shipping and ports: the COVID-19 pandemic versus the 2008–2009 financial crisis

    Theo Notteboom;Theo Notteboom;Theo Notteboom;Thanos Pallis;Jean Paul Rodrigue

  • Functions and actors of inland ports: European and North American dynamics

    Jean Paul Rodrigue;Jean Debrie;Antoine Fremont;Elisabeth Gouvernal

  • Containerisation, Box Logistics and Global Supply Chains: The Integration of Ports and Liner Shipping Networks

    Theo Notteboom;Jean-Paul Rodrigue

  • The geography of cruises: Itineraries, not destinations

    Jean-Paul Rodrigue;Theo Notteboom

  • Foreland-based regionalization: Integrating intermediate hubs with port hinterlands

    Jean-Paul Rodrigue;Theo Notteboom

  • The corporate geography of global container terminal operators

    Theo Notteboom;Jean-Paul Rodrigue

  • The future of containerization: perspectives from maritime and inland freight distribution

    Theo Notteboom;Jean-Paul Rodrigue

  • Inland Terminals within North American and European Supply Chains

    Theo Notteboom;Jean-Paul Rodrigue

  • Re-assessing port-hinterland relationships in the context of global commodity chains

    Theo Notteboom;Jean-Paul Rodrigue

  • Transportation and the Geographical and Functional Integration of Global Production Networks

    Jean-Paul Rodrigue

  • COMPARATIVE NORTH AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN GATEWAY LOGISTICS: THE REGIONALISM OF FREIGHT DISTRIBUTION

    Jean-Paul Rodrigue;Theo Notteboom;Theo Notteboom

  • GLOBALIZATION AND THE SYNCHRONIZATION OF TRANSPORT TERMINALS

    Jean-Paul Rodrigue

  • Straits, Passages and Chokepoints : A Maritime Geostrategy of Petroleum Distribution

    Jean-Paul Rodrigue

  • Port geography at the crossroads with human geography: between flows and spaces

    Adolf K.Y. Ng;César Ducruet;Wouter Jacobs;Jason Monios

  • Dry ports in European and North American intermodal rail systems: Two of a kind?

    Jean-Paul Rodrigue;Theo Notteboom;Theo Notteboom

  • The waves of containerization: shifts in global maritime transportation

    David Guerrero;Jean Paul Rodrigue

Frequent Co-Authors

Genevieve Giuliano
Genevieve Giuliano University of Southern California
Adolf K.Y. Ng
Adolf K.Y. Ng Hong Kong Baptist University
Daniel R. Montello
Daniel R. Montello University of California, Santa Barbara
César Ducruet
César Ducruet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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