Erfan Babaee Tırkolaee

10.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
188 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Erfan Babaee Tırkolaee is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Erfan Babaee Tırkolaee has authored 188 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Strategy and Management, 53 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 40 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Erfan Babaee Tırkolaee's work include Sustainable Supply Chain Management (70 papers), Multi-Criteria Decision Making (29 papers) and Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (27 papers). Erfan Babaee Tırkolaee is often cited by papers focused on Sustainable Supply Chain Management (70 papers), Multi-Criteria Decision Making (29 papers) and Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (27 papers). Erfan Babaee Tırkolaee collaborates with scholars based in Türkiye, Iran and Taiwan. Erfan Babaee Tırkolaee's co-authors include Gerhard‐Wilhelm Weber, Alireza Goli, Nadi Serhan Aydın, Iraj Mahdavi, Mehdi Soltani, Abbas Mardani, Mir Mehdi Seyyed Esfahani, Arun Kumar Sangaiah, Vladimir Šimić and Peiman Ghasemi and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Erfan Babaee Tırkolaee

172 papers receiving 5.7k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A novel hybrid method using fuzzy decision making and multi-objective programming for sustainable-reliable supplier selection in two-echelon supply chain design

2019 263 citations Erfan Babaee Tırkolaee, Abbas Mardani et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →
Designing a sustainable closed-loop supply chain network of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic: Pareto-based algorithms

2021 197 citations Erfan Babaee Tırkolaee, Alireza Goli et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →
Brain tumor segmentation of MRI images: A comprehensive review on the application of artificial intelligence tools

2022 171 citations Erfan Babaee Tırkolaee, Saeid Jafarzadeh Ghoushchi et al. profile →
Industry 5.0 implications for inclusive sustainable manufacturing: An evidence-knowledge-based strategic roadmap

2023 96 citations Erfan Babaee Tırkolaee et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Erfan Babaee Tırkolaee Türkiye	48	2.0k	1.5k	1.1k	974	745	188	6.0k
Mostafa Hajiaghaei–Keshteli Iran	56	3.0k 1.5×	1.9k 1.2×	933 0.9×	1.4k 1.4×	1.2k 1.5×	185	7.8k
Yang Liu China	50	2.0k 1.0×	2.6k 1.7×	822 0.8×	1.0k 1.1×	455 0.6×	303	7.6k
Amir M. Fathollahi‐Fard Canada	55	2.2k 1.1×	2.1k 1.4×	792 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	839 1.1×	142	7.2k
C.K.M. Lee Hong Kong	45	1.5k 0.7×	2.3k 1.5×	698 0.7×	1.2k 1.2×	717 1.0×	316	7.1k
Mohammad Mahdi Paydar Iran	38	1.7k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	513 0.5×	749 0.8×	569 0.8×	140	3.9k
Masoud Rabbani Iran	39	1.9k 1.0×	2.5k 1.6×	839 0.8×	1.5k 1.5×	661 0.9×	302	5.7k
Fariborz Jolai Iran	50	2.1k 1.0×	4.0k 2.6×	1.1k 1.0×	1.6k 1.7×	1.0k 1.4×	300	8.1k
Ashkan Hafezalkotob Iran	37	1.6k 0.8×	412 0.3×	1.6k 1.5×	866 0.9×	546 0.7×	176	4.7k
Behrooz Karimi Iran	40	1.3k 0.6×	2.1k 1.4×	471 0.4×	1.3k 1.4×	727 1.0×	142	4.4k
Morteza Yazdani Spain	38	2.0k 1.0×	560 0.4×	3.2k 3.0×	638 0.7×	757 1.0×	96	6.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Erfan Babaee Tırkolaee

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Tırkolaee, Erfan Babaee, et al.. (2025). Assessing the viability of blockchain technology in renewable energy supply chains: A consolidation framework. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 212. 115444–115444. 13 indexed citations

Tırkolaee, Erfan Babaee, et al.. (2025). An Efficiency-Uncertainty-Based Consensus Optimization Framework With Dual-Perspective Clustering Analysis for Blockchain Adoption in Supply Chains. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. 72. 4308–4319.

Dahooie, Jalil Heidary, et al.. (2025). An integrated decision-making approach for identifying sustainable tier-1 suppliers: Fuzzy Delphi-Borda-SWARA. Annals of Operations Research.

Tırkolaee, Erfan Babaee, et al.. (2024). Crafting efficient blockchain adoption strategies under risk and uncertain environments. Alexandria Engineering Journal. 103. 137–147. 13 indexed citations

Tırkolaee, Erfan Babaee, et al.. (2024). Optimizing energy consumption for blockchain adoption through renewable energy sources. Renewable Energy. 238. 121936–121936. 10 indexed citations

Tırkolaee, Erfan Babaee, et al.. (2024). A novel parallel heuristic method to design a sustainable medical waste management system. Journal of Cleaner Production. 452. 141897–141897. 9 indexed citations

Zandieh, M., et al.. (2024). Identification of optimal waste-to-energy strategies for sustainable development in Iran: SWOT analysis, hybrid MCDM methods, and game theory. Renewable Energy. 237. 121564–121564. 12 indexed citations

Tırkolaee, Erfan Babaee, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the performance of countries in COVID-19 management: A data-driven decision-making and clustering. Applied Soft Computing. 169. 112549–112549. 2 indexed citations

Ganji, S.S., et al.. (2024). Evaluating the performance of intercity road freight transport: Double-frontier parallel network cross-efficiency model. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 94. 101942–101942. 9 indexed citations

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Shokouhyar‎, Sajjad, et al.. (2024). Applications and emerging trends of blockchain technology in marketing to develop Industry 5.0 Businesses: A comprehensive survey and network analysis. Internet of Things. 28. 101401–101401. 1 indexed citations

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Ali, Sadia Samar, Gerhard‐Wilhelm Weber, Erfan Babaee Tırkolaee, & Alireza Goli. (2024). Circular Economy Practices in the Context of Emerging Economies. Sustainability. 16(4). 1417–1417. 3 indexed citations

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Tırkolaee, Erfan Babaee, et al.. (2024). Traveling salesman problem with drone and bicycle: multimodal last‐mile e‐mobility. International Transactions in Operational Research. 32(6). 3232–3258. 11 indexed citations

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Sepehri, Arash, Erfan Babaee Tırkolaee, Vladimir Šimić, & Sadia Samar Ali. (2024). Designing a reliable-sustainable supply chain network: adaptive m-objective ε-constraint method. Annals of Operations Research. 11 indexed citations

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Tırkolaee, Erfan Babaee, Alireza Goli, Hêriş Golpîra, & Ernesto D.R. Santibañez González. (2023). Sustainable Global Supply Chain Management from an International Perspective. Sustainability. 15(16). 12154–12154. 4 indexed citations

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Aytekın, Ahmet, et al.. (2023). Critical success factors of lean six sigma to select the most ideal critical business process using q-ROF CRITIC-ARAS technique: Case study of food business. Expert Systems with Applications. 224. 120057–120057. 23 indexed citations

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Görçün, Ömer Faruk, Ahmet Aytekın, Selçuk Korucuk, & Erfan Babaee Tırkolaee. (2023). Evaluating and selecting sustainable logistics service providers for medical waste disposal treatment in the healthcare industry. Journal of Cleaner Production. 408. 137194–137194. 39 indexed citations

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Ghoushchi, Saeid Jafarzadeh, Mohammad Hossein Asghari, Abbas Mardani, Vladimir Šimić, & Erfan Babaee Tırkolaee. (2023). Designing an efficient humanitarian supply chain network during an emergency: A scenario-based multi-objective model. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 90. 101716–101716. 16 indexed citations

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Weber, Gerhard‐Wilhelm, Hamid R. Arabnia, Nadi Serhan Aydın, & Erfan Babaee Tırkolaee. (2023). Preface: advances of machine learning and optimization in healthcare systems and medicine. Annals of Operations Research. 328(1). 1–2. 4 indexed citations

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Tırkolaee, Erfan Babaee, et al.. (2019). A novel multi-objective model for two-echelon green routing problem of perishable products with intermediate depots. Industrial Engineering and Management. 6(2). 196–213. 10 indexed citations

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Tırkolaee, Erfan Babaee, et al.. (2017). THE PERIODIC GREEN VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM WITH CONSIDERING OF TIME-DEPENDENT URBAN TRAFFIC AND TIME WINDOWS. Iran University of Science & Technology. 7(1). 143–156. 21 indexed citations

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