Paul Zipkin

10.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
96 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Paul Zipkin is a scholar working on Management Information Systems, Management Science and Operations Research and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Zipkin has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Management Information Systems, 25 papers in Management Science and Operations Research and 24 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Paul Zipkin's work include Supply Chain and Inventory Management (56 papers), Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis (43 papers) and Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms (20 papers). Paul Zipkin is often cited by papers focused on Supply Chain and Inventory Management (56 papers), Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis (43 papers) and Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms (20 papers). Paul Zipkin collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Paul Zipkin's co-authors include Awi Federgruen, Jing-Sheng Song, Gérard P. Cachon, Pengfei Guo, Gregory A. DeCroix, Guillermo Gallego, Gregory P. Prastacos, Mark Ferguson, Hongyan Dai and Mitchell M. Tseng and has published in prestigious journals such as Management Science, European Journal of Operational Research and Operations Research.

In The Last Decade

Paul Zipkin

92 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

Foundations of Inventory Management 2000 2026 2008 2017 2000 400 800 1.2k
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. Foundations of Inventory Management
    2000 1.4k citations Paul Zipkin profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paul Zipkin United States 44 6.0k 2.8k 2.0k 1.5k 843 96 7.7k
Stephen C. Graves United States 40 3.4k 0.6× 3.9k 1.4× 1.6k 0.8× 1.1k 0.7× 488 0.6× 136 7.2k
Awi Federgruen United States 48 5.9k 1.0× 2.8k 1.0× 2.4k 1.2× 1.7k 1.2× 1.6k 1.9× 165 8.5k
Panos Kouvelis United States 47 4.7k 0.8× 2.5k 0.9× 3.4k 1.7× 1.9k 1.3× 925 1.1× 186 9.0k
Steven Nahmias United States 27 4.0k 0.7× 1.4k 0.5× 1.8k 0.9× 1.2k 0.8× 704 0.8× 50 5.2k
Wallace J. Hopp United States 39 3.0k 0.5× 2.8k 1.0× 1.2k 0.6× 1.3k 0.9× 420 0.5× 122 6.3k
David Simchi‐Levi United States 55 8.1k 1.4× 4.3k 1.5× 4.9k 2.4× 3.0k 2.0× 1.8k 2.1× 266 13.8k
K.L. Choy Hong Kong 45 1.8k 0.3× 2.6k 0.9× 1.8k 0.9× 1.2k 0.8× 447 0.5× 190 7.1k
Gabriel R. Bitran United States 38 2.8k 0.5× 1.8k 0.6× 714 0.4× 1.2k 0.8× 1.3k 1.5× 72 4.8k
Morris A. Cohen United States 45 4.2k 0.7× 1.2k 0.4× 2.7k 1.3× 1.3k 0.9× 1.0k 1.2× 110 6.7k
Guillermo Gallego United States 40 5.4k 0.9× 1.5k 0.5× 1.6k 0.8× 2.1k 1.4× 2.9k 3.4× 132 6.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Paul Zipkin

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Zipkin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Zipkin

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zipkin, Paul. (2012). On the method of images and the asymptotic behavior of first-passage times. Annals of Operations Research. 241(1-2). 201–224. 1 indexed citations
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Song, Jing-Sheng & Paul Zipkin. (2011). An approximation for the inverse first passage time problem. Advances in Applied Probability. 43(1). 264–275. 9 indexed citations
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Song, Jing-Sheng & Paul Zipkin. (2011). An approximation for the inverse first passage time problem. Advances in Applied Probability. 43(1). 264–275. 2 indexed citations
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Zipkin, Paul. (2011). A Reply to Williamson's “Outsourcing …”. Production and Operations Management. 21(3). 465–469. 21 indexed citations
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Zipkin, Paul. (2011). On Durbin's Series for the Density of First Passage Times. Journal of Applied Probability. 48(3). 713–722.
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Dai, Hongyan, Mitchell M. Tseng, & Paul Zipkin. (2011). Design of Traceability Systems for Product Recall. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations
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DeCroix, Gregory A., Jing-Sheng Song, & Paul Zipkin. (2008). Managing an Assemble-to-Order System with Returns. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 11(1). 144–159. 23 indexed citations
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Chao, Xiuli & Paul Zipkin. (2008). Optimal Policy for a Periodic-Review Inventory System Under a Supply Capacity Contract. Operations Research. 56(1). 59–68. 26 indexed citations
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DeCroix, Gregory A. & Paul Zipkin. (2005). Inventory Management for an Assembly System with Product or Component Returns. Management Science. 51(8). 1250–1265. 78 indexed citations
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Zipkin, Paul. (2001). The Limits of Mass Customization. MIT Sloan management review. 42(3). 81–87. 302 indexed citations
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Song, Jing-Sheng & Paul Zipkin. (1996). Inventory Control with Information About Supply Conditions. Management Science. 42(10). 1409–1419. 193 indexed citations
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Zipkin, Paul. (1995). Processing networks with planned inventories: Tandem queues with feedback. European Journal of Operational Research. 80(2). 344–349. 7 indexed citations
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Zipkin, Paul. (1991). Pros y contras de la implantación de los sistemas "justo a tiempo". Harvard-Deusto business review. 64–77.
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Zipkin, Paul, et al.. (1987). The convexity of a general performance measure for multiserver queues. Journal of Applied Probability. 24(3). 725–736. 10 indexed citations
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Zipkin, Paul. (1987). Multi-stage production planning and inventory control. European Journal of Operational Research. 29(3). 386–387. 21 indexed citations
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Federgruen, Awi, Gregory P. Prastacos, & Paul Zipkin. (1986). An Allocation and Distribution Model for Perishable Products. Operations Research. 34(1). 75–82. 127 indexed citations
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Federgruen, Awi & Paul Zipkin. (1986). An Inventory Model with Limited Production Capacity and Uncertain Demands I. The Average-Cost Criterion. Mathematics of Operations Research. 11(2). 193–207. 198 indexed citations
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Zipkin, Paul. (1986). Inventory Service-Level Measures: Convexity and Approximation. Management Science. 32(8). 975–981. 70 indexed citations
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Zipkin, Paul. (1986). Stochastic leadtimes in continuous‐time inventory models. Naval Research Logistics Quarterly. 33(4). 763–774. 137 indexed citations
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Zipkin, Paul. (1980). Bounds for Row-Aggregation in Linear Programming. Operations Research. 28(4). 903–916. 65 indexed citations

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