Nick Rich

5.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
47 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Nick Rich is a scholar working on Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management and Marketing. According to data from OpenAlex, Nick Rich has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Management Information Systems, 22 papers in Strategy and Management and 6 papers in Marketing. Recurrent topics in Nick Rich's work include Quality and Supply Management (30 papers), Innovation and Knowledge Management (11 papers) and Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management (9 papers). Nick Rich is often cited by papers focused on Quality and Supply Management (30 papers), Innovation and Knowledge Management (11 papers) and Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management (9 papers). Nick Rich collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Nick Rich's co-authors include Peter Hines, Matthias Holweg, Niall Piercy, Nicola Bateman, Ann Esain, Nripendra P. Rana, Sachin Kumar Mangla, Sunil Luthra, Divesh Kumar and Yogesh K. Dwivedi and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Access and International Journal of Production Economics.

In The Last Decade

Nick Rich

43 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

Learning to evolve 1997 2026 2006 2016 2004 1997 250 500 750 1000
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.

  1. Learning to evolve
    2004 1.2k citations Peter Hines, Matthias Holweg et al. International Journal of Operations & Production Management profile →
  2. The seven value stream mapping tools
    1997 637 citations Peter Hines, Nick Rich International Journal of Operations & Production Management profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nick Rich United Kingdom 23 2.9k 2.5k 838 641 441 47 3.9k
Dirk Pieter van Donk Netherlands 31 2.1k 0.7× 2.0k 0.8× 510 0.6× 652 1.0× 406 0.9× 104 3.6k
Peter Hines United Kingdom 30 3.3k 1.1× 2.6k 1.0× 930 1.1× 709 1.1× 561 1.3× 83 4.3k
Carlo D. Smith United States 10 2.4k 0.8× 2.7k 1.1× 503 0.6× 332 0.5× 213 0.5× 18 4.1k
Nancy W. Nix United States 6 2.5k 0.9× 2.4k 1.0× 413 0.5× 305 0.5× 211 0.5× 7 3.7k
Anand Nair United States 31 2.4k 0.8× 2.8k 1.1× 630 0.8× 276 0.4× 336 0.8× 76 4.1k
Pamela Danese Italy 33 2.0k 0.7× 2.1k 0.8× 418 0.5× 363 0.6× 324 0.7× 68 3.2k
Mark Frohlich United Kingdom 7 1.7k 0.6× 1.8k 0.7× 413 0.5× 404 0.6× 478 1.1× 9 3.2k
Jan Stentoft Denmark 32 1.8k 0.6× 1.8k 0.7× 400 0.5× 652 1.0× 277 0.6× 114 3.0k
Ajay Das United States 27 2.6k 0.9× 2.8k 1.1× 316 0.4× 510 0.8× 344 0.8× 47 4.0k
Pietro Romano Italy 31 2.1k 0.7× 2.0k 0.8× 416 0.5× 314 0.5× 302 0.7× 69 3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Nick Rich

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nick Rich

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nick Rich

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nick Rich. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nick Rich 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 Nick Rich. Nick Rich is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vergara, Alejandro, Guilherme Luz Tortorella, Roberto S. Vassolo, et al.. (2025). Determinants of ICT Adoption and Performance in Healthcare: The Role of Individual Attributes and Organizational Contextual Factors. IEEE Access. 13. 22535–22550. 1 indexed citations
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Kamal, Muhammad Mustafa, et al.. (2024). Highly Reliable Organisations and Sustainability Risk Management: Safety Cultures in the Nigerian Oil and Gas Supply Chain Sector. Business Strategy and the Environment. 34(2). 2680–2701. 4 indexed citations
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Kumar, Maneesh, et al.. (2024). A curvilinear assessment of innovation in Six Sigma project teams: the influence of psychological safety and intrinsic motivation. Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management. 35(8). 1508–1527.
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Rees, Daniel, et al.. (2023). Innovation Adoption Research in Healthcare: Understanding Context and Embracing Complexity. Cronfa (Swansea University). 18(1). 85–93. 2 indexed citations
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Rich, Nick, et al.. (2022). Recommendations for a voluntary Long COVID Registry. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 115(8). 322–324. 5 indexed citations
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Williams, Sharon, et al.. (2021). Sustainability of Quality Improvement Initiatives within the Saudi Ministry of Health Hospitals: An Institutional Overview. Cronfa (Swansea University). 1(1). 3–10. 2 indexed citations
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Kapletia, Dharm, et al.. (2019). Redistributed manufacturing – challenges for operations management. Production Planning & Control. 30(7). 493–495. 9 indexed citations
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Bortolotti, Thomas, et al.. (2018). The social benefits of kaizen initiatives in healthcare: an empirical study. International Journal of Operations & Production Management. 38(2). 554–578. 37 indexed citations
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Afy-Shararah, Mohamed & Nick Rich. (2018). Operations flow effectiveness: a systems approach to measuring flow performance. International Journal of Operations & Production Management. 38(11). 2096–2123. 21 indexed citations
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Mangla, Sachin Kumar, Sunil Luthra, Nick Rich, et al.. (2018). Enablers to implement sustainable initiatives in agri-food supply chains. International Journal of Production Economics. 203. 379–393. 261 indexed citations
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Found, Pauline, Jo Beale, Peter Hines, et al.. (2006). A theoretical framework for economic sustainability of manufacturing. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 6 indexed citations
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Rich, Nick, et al.. (2006). Lean Evolution. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 16 indexed citations
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Rich, Nick, et al.. (2004). Lean TPM a blueprint for change. TU Digital Collections (Thammasat University). 22 indexed citations
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Hines, Peter, Matthias Holweg, Niall Piercy, & Nick Rich. (2004). From production toolkit to strategic value creation - A review of the evolution of contemporary lean thinking. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 1 indexed citations
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Hines, Peter, Richard Lamming, Dan Jones, Paul D. Cousins, & Nick Rich. (2000). Value stream management: strategy and excellence in the supply chain. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 102 indexed citations
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Hines, Peter, et al.. (1998). Value Stream Management. The International Journal of Logistics Management. 9(1). 25–42. 228 indexed citations
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Hines, Peter, Nick Rich, & Ann Esain. (1998). Creating a lean supplier network: a distribution industry case. 4(4). 235–246. 26 indexed citations
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Hines, Peter, et al.. (1997). The lean enterprise : designing and managing strategic processes for customer-winning performance. 25 indexed citations
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Rich, Nick & Peter Hines. (1997). Supply‐chain management and time‐based competition: the role of the supplier association. International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management. 27(3/4). 210–225. 103 indexed citations

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