Lei Xu

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
91 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Lei Xu is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Management Information Systems and Marketing. According to data from OpenAlex, Lei Xu has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Strategy and Management, 42 papers in Management Information Systems and 22 papers in Marketing. Recurrent topics in Lei Xu's work include Sustainable Supply Chain Management (38 papers), Supply Chain and Inventory Management (34 papers) and Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing (11 papers). Lei Xu is often cited by papers focused on Sustainable Supply Chain Management (38 papers), Supply Chain and Inventory Management (34 papers) and Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing (11 papers). Lei Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, Denmark and United States. Lei Xu's co-authors include Yongjian Li, Kannan Govindan, Peng Du, Tsan‐Ming Choi, Xianpei Hong, Ali Diabat, Yaşanur Kayıkçı, Surajit Bag, Pavitra Dhamija and Lincoln C. Wood and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Journal of Cleaner Production and European Journal of Operational Research.

In The Last Decade

Lei Xu

84 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Big data analytics as an operational excellence approach to enhance sustainable supply chain performance

2019 446 citations Lei Xu et al. profile →
Channel leadership, performance and coordination in closed loop supply chains

2013 379 citations Tsan‐Ming Choi, Lei Xu et al. International Journal of Production Economics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lei Xu China	32	2.6k	1.9k	1.2k	736	426	91	3.8k
Jafar Heydari Iran	36	2.7k 1.0×	2.2k 1.2×	774 0.7×	437 0.6×	337 0.8×	98	3.7k
Ou Tang Sweden	33	2.8k 1.0×	1.9k 1.0×	768 0.6×	529 0.7×	354 0.8×	117	4.2k
Pietro De Giovanni Italy	32	2.8k 1.1×	1.8k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	588 0.8×	323 0.8×	91	3.8k
Samir K. Srivastava India	22	4.0k 1.5×	1.4k 0.8×	1.6k 1.3×	1.2k 1.7×	431 1.0×	66	4.9k
Ravi Kant India	34	3.0k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	902 0.8×	534 0.7×	755 1.8×	167	4.5k
Susana Garrido Azevedo Portugal	30	3.1k 1.2×	1.6k 0.9×	951 0.8×	479 0.7×	286 0.7×	97	4.3k
Zhaohui Wu United States	22	3.9k 1.5×	1.9k 1.0×	1.7k 1.4×	453 0.6×	293 0.7×	45	4.7k
K. Mathiyazhagan India	36	3.2k 1.2×	1.2k 0.6×	1.4k 1.2×	875 1.2×	501 1.2×	116	4.7k
Helena Carvalho Portugal	32	3.2k 1.2×	1.9k 1.1×	802 0.7×	399 0.5×	251 0.6×	77	4.1k
Guoqing Zhang Canada	34	2.1k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	546 0.5×	547 0.7×	681 1.6×	105	3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Lei Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lei Xu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lei Xu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lei Xu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lei Xu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Lei Xu. Lei Xu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Xu, Lei, et al.. (2025). Does farmland transfer promote green agricultural production? An empirical analysis of fertilizer and pesticide reduction. Journal of Cleaner Production. 489. 144631–144631. 6 indexed citations

Xu, Lei, et al.. (2025). Electrolyte pH modulation for efficient and durable electrochemical cement clinker precursor production. Green Chemistry. 27(14). 3706–3714. 3 indexed citations

Xu, Lei, et al.. (2025). Carbon Abatement Technology Transformation and Correlated Risks in the Airline Industry. Sustainability. 17(4). 1399–1399. 1 indexed citations

Bai, Qingguo & Lei Xu. (2025). Robust Decisions of Omnichannel Retail Operations for an Overconfident Manufacturer Considering Short Life-Cycle Products and Cap-and-Offset Policy. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. 72. 4020–4035.

Xu, Lei, Tsan‐Ming Choi, Xiaoran Shi, & Chi Zhou. (2024). Gray marketing phenomena in global supply chains: Can pricing strategies help?. Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review. 187. 103541–103541. 3 indexed citations

Song, Jia, Jiao Li, Xiujuan Shi, et al.. (2024). A comprehensive stem cell laboratory module with blended learning for medical students at Tongji University. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education. 52(3). 291–298.

Du, Peng, et al.. (2024). Competing with Low Cost Carrier in a Sustainable Environment: Airline Ticket Pricing, Carbon Trading, and Market Power Structure. Sustainability. 16(2). 885–885. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Xiaoyang, et al.. (2023). The effect of carbon tariffs and the associated coping strategies: A global supply chain perspective. Omega. 122. 102960–102960. 33 indexed citations

Xu, Lei, Fengjiang Zhuang, Shaojian Su, et al.. (2023). Zero-admittance states in honeycomb topological circuits. Physica Scripta. 98(11). 115907–115907. 1 indexed citations

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Zhao, Hongchao, et al.. (2022). Modeling the resumption of work and production of enterprises during COVID-19: An SIR-based quantitative framework. Frontiers in Public Health. 10. 1066299–1066299. 1 indexed citations

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Du, Peng, et al.. (2020). Green design strategies of competing manufacturers in a sustainable supply chain. Journal of Cleaner Production. 265. 121853–121853. 30 indexed citations

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Li, Jiao, et al.. (2019). A Designed Experiment: Polymorphism Analysis of Angiotensin‐Converting Enzyme Gene from Human Buccal Epithelial Cells. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education. 47(2). 168–174. 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Lei, Xiaoran Shi, Peng Du, Kannan Govindan, & Zhenchao Zhang. (2018). Optimization on pricing and overconfidence problem in a duopolistic supply chain. Computers & Operations Research. 101. 162–172. 39 indexed citations

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Liu, Aijun, Xiaohui Ji, Lei Xu, & Hui Lu. (2018). Research on the recycling of sharing bikes based on time dynamics series, individual regrets and group efficiency. Journal of Cleaner Production. 208. 666–687. 33 indexed citations

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Bai, Qingguo, Mingyuan Chen, & Lei Xu. (2017). Revenue and promotional cost-sharing contract versus two-part tariff contract in coordinating sustainable supply chain systems with deteriorating items. International Journal of Production Economics. 187. 85–101. 230 indexed citations

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Tsai, Sang‐Bing, et al.. (2017). A study on solving the production process problems of the photovoltaic cell industry. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 82. 3546–3553. 51 indexed citations

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Liu, Liwen, Zongjun Wang, Lei Xu, Xianpei Hong, & Kannan Govindan. (2016). Collection effort and reverse channel choices in a closed-loop supply chain. Journal of Cleaner Production. 144. 492–500. 154 indexed citations

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Song, Shuang, et al.. (2016). Capacity and production planning with carbon emission constraints. Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review. 97. 132–150. 75 indexed citations

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Lü, Kun, Shuanshuan Xie, Shilong Han, et al.. (2014). Preparation of a nano emodin transfersome and study on its anti-obesity mechanism in adipose tissue of diet-induced obese rats. Journal of Translational Medicine. 12(1). 72–72. 40 indexed citations

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Xu, Lei. (2012). Coordination on remanufacturing activity in rental industry. Journal of systems engineering. 1 indexed citations

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