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Business and Management
Netherlands
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
69
Citations
24295
World Ranking
318
National Ranking
12

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
77
Citations
27556
World Ranking
640
National Ranking
15

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Business and Management in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Rommert Dekker is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple fields including Engineering and Business, Management and Accounting. Within these, they have contributed substantially to subfields such as Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Management Science and Operations Research, and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.

The scientist's main research topics encompass Supply Chain and Inventory Management, Maritime Ports and Logistics, Reliability and Maintenance Optimization, Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring, Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods, Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining, and Advanced Text Analysis Techniques.

Frequent collaborators in their work include Mustafa Hekimoğlu, Sha Zhu, Willem van Jaarsveld, Ayse Sena Eruguz, and Maria Mihaela Truşcǎ. Collaboration with these authors has yielded several publications across diverse topics related to operational research and logistics.

Rommert Dekker has published in several venues, demonstrating a breadth of research interests. The common publication forums include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
  • Reliability Engineering & System Safety
  • Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review
  • European Journal of Operational Research

Selected recent papers highlighting the scope of their research are:

  • "Spare parts inventory control based on maintenance planning," 2020, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
  • "Critical project planning and spare parts inventory management in shutdown maintenance," 2021, Reliability Engineering & System Safety
  • "Partial and complete replanning of an intermodal logistic system under disruptions," 2022, Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review
  • "Maintenance optimization for a single wind turbine component under time-varying costs," 2021, European Journal of Operational Research
  • "A Hybrid Approach for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Using Deep Contextual Word Embeddings and Hierarchical Attention," 2020, Lecture notes in computer science

Best Publications

  • Quantitative models for reverse logistics: A review

    Moritz Fleischmann;Jacqueline M. Bloemhof-Ruwaard;Rommert Dekker;Erwin van der Laan

  • Applications of maintenance optimization models : a review and analysis

    Rommert Dekker

  • A characterisation of logistics networks for product recovery

    Mortiz Fleischmann;Hans Ronald Krikke;Rommert Dekker;Simme Douwe P. Flapper

  • Operations Research for Green Logistics – An Overview of Aspects, Issues, Contributions and Challenges

    Rommert Dekker;Jacqueline M. Bloemhof;Ioannis Mallidis

  • A comparison of two techniques for bibliometric mapping: Multidimensional scaling and VOS

    Nees Jan van Eck;Ludo Waltman;Rommert Dekker;Jan van den Berg

  • Reverse logistics : quantitative models for closed-loop supply chains

    Rommert Dekker;Moritz Fleischmann;Karl Inderfurth;Luk N. Van Wassenhove

  • A two-level network for recycling sand: A case study

    Ana Isabel Barros;Rommert Dekker;V. Scholten

  • Reverse Logistics: A Review of Case Studies

    Marisa P. de Brito;Rommert Dekker;Simme Douwe P. Flapper

  • A review of multi-component maintenance models with economic dependence

    Rommert Dekker;Ralph E. Wildeman;Frank A. van der Duyn Schouten

  • Advanced methods for container stacking

    Rommert Dekker;Patrick Voogd;Eelco van Asperen

  • A stochastic approach to a case study for product recovery network design

    Ovidiu Listes;Rommert Dekker

  • A Framework for Reverse Logistics

    Marisa de Brito;Rommert Dekker

  • Optimal maintenance of multi-component systems: a review

    Robin Nicolai;Rommert Dekker

  • A comparison of two techniques for bibliometric mapping: Multidimensional scaling and VOS

    Nees Jan van Eck;Ludo Waltman;Rommert Dekker;Jan van den Berg

  • Inventory Control in Hybrid Systems with Remanufacturing

    Erwin van der Laan;Marc Salomon;Rommert Dekker;Luk Van Wassenhove

  • Optimal maintenance of multi-component systems: a review

    Robin P. Nicolai;Rommert Dekker

  • Reverse Logistics - a review of case studies

    Marisa P. Brito;Rommert Dekker;Simme Douwe P. Flapper

  • A Framework for Reverse Logistics

    Marisa P. de Brito;Rommert Dekker

  • Controlling inventories with stochastic item returns: a basic model

    Moritz Fleischmann;Roelof Kuik;Rommert Dekker

  • Reverse logistics - a framework

    Marisa de Brito;Rommert Dekker

  • Reverse logistics - a framework

    Marisa de Brito;Rommert Dekker

  • Reliability and heterogeneity of railway services

    Michiel J C M Vromans;Rommert Dekker;Leo G Kroon

  • On the impact of optimisation models in maintenance decision making: the state of the art

    Rommert Dekker;Philip A. Scarf

  • An inventory control system for spare parts at a refinery: An empirical comparison of different re-order point methods

    Eric Porras;Rommert Dekker

  • Scheduling preventive railway maintenance activities

    G. Budai;D. Huisman;R. Dekker

Frequent Co-Authors

Dimitrios Vlachos
Dimitrios Vlachos Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Leo Kroon
Leo Kroon Erasmus University Rotterdam
Rudy R. Negenborn
Rudy R. Negenborn Delft University of Technology
Uzay Kaymak
Uzay Kaymak Eindhoven University of Technology
Arie Hordijk
Arie Hordijk Leiden University
Eleftherios Iakovou
Eleftherios Iakovou Texas A&M University
Flavius Frasincar
Flavius Frasincar Erasmus University Rotterdam
Jacqueline M. Bloemhof-Ruwaard
Jacqueline M. Bloemhof-Ruwaard Wageningen University & Research
Ludo Waltman
Ludo Waltman Leiden University
Gabriel Lodewijks
Gabriel Lodewijks University of New South Wales

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