2026 Saif Benjaafar: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	32	2601	2455	1023	945	98	6837

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

1575
Citations
Peer-to-Peer Product Sharing: Implications for Ownership, Usage, and Social Welfare in the Sharing Economy

Saif Benjaafar;Guangwen Kong;Xiang Li;Costas Courcoubetis

593
Citations
Operations management in the age of the sharing economy: What is old and what is new?

Saif Benjaafar;Ming Hu

321
Citations
Next Generation Factory Layouts: Research Challenges and Recent Progress

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

293
Citations
Economic Optimization of a Lignocellulosic Biomass-to-Ethanol Supply Chain

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

293
Citations
Make-to-order, make-to-stock, or delay product differentiation? A common framework for modeling and analysis

Diwakar Gupta;Saif Benjaafar

269
Citations
Production and Inventory Control of a Single Product Assemble-to-Order System with Multiple Customer Classes

Saif Benjaafar;Mohsen ElHafsi

253
Citations
Labor Welfare in On-Demand Service Platforms

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

248
Citations
Modelling, measurement and evaluation of sequencing flexibility in manufacturing systems

S. Benjaafar;R. Ramakrishnan

203
Citations
Outsourcing via Service Competition

Saif Benjaafar;Ehsan Elahi;Karen L. Donohue

187
Citations
Modeling and analysis of flexible queueing systems

Suri Gurumurthi;Saif Benjaafar

180
Citations
On the Benefits of Pooling in Production-Inventory Systems

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

165
Citations
Using Imperfect Advance Demand Information in Production-Inventory Systems with Multiple Customer Classes

Jean-Philippe Gayon;Saif Benjaafar;Francis de Véricourt

164
Citations
Design of a Mobile Charging Service for Electric Vehicles in an Urban Environment

Shisheng Huang;Liang He;Yu Gu;Kristin Wood

153
Citations
Capacity Sharing and Cost Allocation among Independent Firms with Congestion

Yimin Yu;Saif Benjaafar;Yigal Gerchak

104
Citations
On the Effect of Product Variety in Production-Inventory Systems

Saif Benjaafar;Joon Seok Kim;N. Vishwanadham

104
Citations
Optimal control of a production-inventory system with customer impatience

Saif Benjaafar;Jean-Philippe Gayon;Seda Tepe

92
Citations
Models for performance evaluation of flexibility in manufacturing systems

Saif Benjaafar

91
Citations
Optimal control of a production-inventory system with both backorders and lost sales

Saif Benjaafar;Mohsen ElHafsi;Tingliang Huang

83
Citations
Demand Allocation in Multiple-Product, Multiple-Facility, Make-to-Stock Systems

Saif Benjaafar;Mohsen ElHafsi;Francis de Véricourt

83
Citations
Resequencing and feature assignment on an automated assembly line

M. Lahmar;H. Ergan;S. Benjaafar

78
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Costas Courcoubetis Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Lanny D. Schmidt University of Minnesota

Prodromos Daoutidis University of Minnesota

Chung Yee Lee Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Mark S. Daskin University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

David J. Chen The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Zhongsheng Hua Zhejiang University

Martin W. P. Savelsbergh Georgia Institute of Technology

Yu Gu Visa (United States)

Bradley J. Nelson ETH Zurich

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