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D-Index
32
Citations
6837
World Ranking
2602
National Ranking
1024

Saif Benjaafar publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Saif Benjaafar sits on this spectrum.

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35 publications 436+

This scientist: 98 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

Saif Benjaafar D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Saif Benjaafar sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 32 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Overview

Saif Benjaafar is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans multiple main fields of study, notably Engineering and Business, Management and Accounting, with a focus on a range of subfields and topics interconnected with transportation, mobility, and platform economies.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Engineering
  • Business, Management and Accounting

Among subfields of study, the following are most prominent:

  • Automotive Engineering
  • Marketing
  • Transportation
  • Strategy and Management
  • Management Information Systems

Their research primarily covers these main topics:

  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Sharing Economy and Platforms
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis
  • Digital Platforms and Economics
  • Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization
  • Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure

Frequent publication venues for Saif Benjaafar's work include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Service Science
  • Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
  • Management Science
  • Queueing Systems

Some of the recent papers published by Saif Benjaafar are:

  • "Labor Welfare in On-Demand Service Platforms" (2021) in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
  • "Dimensioning On-Demand Vehicle Sharing Systems" (2021) in Management Science
  • "Dynamic Inventory Repositioning in On-Demand Rental Networks" (2022) in Management Science
  • "Drivers, Riders, and Service Providers: The Impact of the Sharing Economy on Mobility" (2021) in Management Science
  • "Labor Welfare in On-Demand Service Platforms" (2020) in SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors who collaborated with Saif Benjaafar include:

  • Xiaotang Yang
  • Xiaobing Shen
  • Shining Wu
  • Hanlin Liu
  • Oualid Jouini

In 2020, Saif Benjaafar was recognized as a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

Best Publications

  • Carbon Footprint and the Management of Supply Chains: Insights From Simple Models

    Saif Benjaafar;Yanzhi Li;M. Daskin

  • Peer-to-Peer Product Sharing: Implications for Ownership, Usage, and Social Welfare in the Sharing Economy

    Saif Benjaafar;Guangwen Kong;Xiang Li;Costas Courcoubetis

  • Operations management in the age of the sharing economy: What is old and what is new?

    Saif Benjaafar;Ming Hu

  • Next Generation Factory Layouts: Research Challenges and Recent Progress

    Saif Benjaafar;Sunderesh S. Heragu;Shahrukh A. Irani

  • Economic Optimization of a Lignocellulosic Biomass-to-Ethanol Supply Chain

    W. Alex Marvin;Lanny D. Schmidt;Saif Benjaafar;Douglas G. Tiffany

  • Make-to-order, make-to-stock, or delay product differentiation? A common framework for modeling and analysis

    Diwakar Gupta;Saif Benjaafar

  • Production and Inventory Control of a Single Product Assemble-to-Order System with Multiple Customer Classes

    Saif Benjaafar;Mohsen ElHafsi

  • Labor Welfare in On-Demand Service Platforms

    Saif Benjaafar;Jian-Ya Ding;Guangwen Kong;Terry Taylor

  • Modelling, measurement and evaluation of sequencing flexibility in manufacturing systems

    S. Benjaafar;R. Ramakrishnan

  • Outsourcing via Service Competition

    Saif Benjaafar;Ehsan Elahi;Karen L. Donohue

  • Modeling and analysis of flexible queueing systems

    Suri Gurumurthi;Saif Benjaafar

  • On the Benefits of Pooling in Production-Inventory Systems

    Saif Benjaafar;William L. Cooper;Joon-Seok Kim

  • Using Imperfect Advance Demand Information in Production-Inventory Systems with Multiple Customer Classes

    Jean-Philippe Gayon;Saif Benjaafar;Francis de Véricourt

  • Design of a Mobile Charging Service for Electric Vehicles in an Urban Environment

    Shisheng Huang;Liang He;Yu Gu;Kristin Wood

  • Capacity Sharing and Cost Allocation among Independent Firms with Congestion

    Yimin Yu;Saif Benjaafar;Yigal Gerchak

  • On the Effect of Product Variety in Production-Inventory Systems

    Saif Benjaafar;Joon Seok Kim;N. Vishwanadham

  • Optimal control of a production-inventory system with customer impatience

    Saif Benjaafar;Jean-Philippe Gayon;Seda Tepe

  • Models for performance evaluation of flexibility in manufacturing systems

    Saif Benjaafar

  • Optimal control of a production-inventory system with both backorders and lost sales

    Saif Benjaafar;Mohsen ElHafsi;Tingliang Huang

  • Demand Allocation in Multiple-Product, Multiple-Facility, Make-to-Stock Systems

    Saif Benjaafar;Mohsen ElHafsi;Francis de Véricourt

  • Resequencing and feature assignment on an automated assembly line

    M. Lahmar;H. Ergan;S. Benjaafar

Frequent Co-Authors

Costas Courcoubetis
Costas Courcoubetis Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Lanny D. Schmidt
Lanny D. Schmidt University of Minnesota
Prodromos Daoutidis
Prodromos Daoutidis University of Minnesota
Chung Yee Lee
Chung Yee Lee Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Mark S. Daskin
Mark S. Daskin University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David J. Chen
David J. Chen The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Zhongsheng Hua
Zhongsheng Hua Zhejiang University
Martin W. P. Savelsbergh
Martin W. P. Savelsbergh Georgia Institute of Technology
Yu Gu
Yu Gu Visa (United States)

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