Pravin Kumar

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Pravin Kumar is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Management Information Systems and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Pravin Kumar has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Strategy and Management, 18 papers in Management Information Systems and 15 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Pravin Kumar's work include Sustainable Supply Chain Management (15 papers), Quality and Supply Management (14 papers) and Multi-Criteria Decision Making (13 papers). Pravin Kumar is often cited by papers focused on Sustainable Supply Chain Management (15 papers), Quality and Supply Management (14 papers) and Multi-Criteria Decision Making (13 papers). Pravin Kumar collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and United Kingdom. Pravin Kumar's co-authors include Raj Singh, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Vikas Kumar, Angappa Gunasekaran, Ravi Shankar, Surendra S. Yadav, Ravinder Kumar, Justin Paul, Mahesh Chand and Ankit Bansal and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Resources Conservation and Recycling and Applied Soft Computing.

In The Last Decade

Pravin Kumar

50 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Managing supply chains for sustainable operations in the era of industry 4.0 and circular economy: Analysis of barriers

2020 285 citations Pravin Kumar, Rajesh Kumar Singh et al. Resources Conservation and Recycling profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pravin Kumar India	23	952	538	333	288	197	53	1.7k
Dinesh Kumar India	24	1.0k 1.1×	630 1.2×	523 1.6×	174 0.6×	237 1.2×	53	1.9k
Sanjay Jharkharia India	14	909 1.0×	760 1.4×	405 1.2×	196 0.7×	185 0.9×	21	1.7k
Gunjan Soni India	27	1.5k 1.5×	1.1k 2.0×	233 0.7×	353 1.2×	234 1.2×	128	2.4k
Naoufel Cheikhrouhou Switzerland	24	720 0.8×	486 0.9×	305 0.9×	551 1.9×	194 1.0×	105	1.9k
Srikanta Routroy India	23	834 0.9×	717 1.3×	174 0.5×	280 1.0×	134 0.7×	125	1.9k
A.R. Singh India	23	951 1.0×	602 1.1×	313 0.9×	278 1.0×	233 1.2×	62	1.9k
Chitra Lekha Karmaker Bangladesh	19	847 0.9×	361 0.7×	170 0.5×	296 1.0×	180 0.9×	41	1.6k
Zhitao Xu China	22	716 0.8×	282 0.5×	231 0.7×	258 0.9×	173 0.9×	42	1.6k
Ramesh Anbanandam India	26	1.1k 1.1×	624 1.2×	335 1.0×	240 0.8×	180 0.9×	55	2.0k
Ahmed Mohammed United Kingdom	25	1.1k 1.1×	545 1.0×	460 1.4×	184 0.6×	105 0.5×	70	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pravin Kumar

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kumar, Pravin, et al.. (2025). Theorems in the generalized thermoelasticity based on the thermomass motion in the modified Green–Lindsay theory. Acta Mechanica.

Kumar, Sudhesh, et al.. (2024). Analysis of the crack problem under unified generalized thermoelasticity. Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures. 31(28). 10745–10756. 1 indexed citations

Kumar, Pravin, et al.. (2024). A framework for evaluating the barriers to adopting Industry 4.0 in Indian SMEs: an approach of best-worst method. Journal of Management Analytics. 11(4). 705–737. 4 indexed citations

Kumar, Pravin, et al.. (2023). Risk analysis of adopting the circular economy practices: a perspective of resource-dependent theory. Supply Chain Forum an International Journal. 25(4). 504–521. 3 indexed citations

Kumar, Pravin, et al.. (2022). Learnings from COVID-19 for managing humanitarian supply chains: systematic literature review and future research directions. Annals of Operations Research. 335(3). 899–935. 30 indexed citations

Kumar, Pravin, et al.. (2022). A Comparative Study of the Feasibility of Alternative Fuel Vehicles for Sustainable Transportation in India: A Hybrid Approach of DEMATEL and TOPSIS. Transportation in Developing Economies. 9(1). 15 indexed citations

Kumar, Pravin, et al.. (2022). A Comparative Study of Demand Forecasting Models for a Multi-Channel Retail Company: A Novel Hybrid Machine Learning Approach. Operations Research Forum. 3(4). 36 indexed citations

Kumar, Pravin, Manoj Kumar Singh, & Saurabh Agrawal. (2021). An analysis of customer’s purchase intention towards the green products and its effect on manufacturing: A statistical approach. Journal of Engineering Research. 1 indexed citations

Kumar, Pravin, et al.. (2021). Analyzing challenges for sustainable supply chain of electric vehicle batteries using a hybrid approach of Delphi and Best-Worst Method. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 175. 105879–105879. 87 indexed citations

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Kumar, Pravin & Rajesh Kumar Singh. (2020). Selection of sustainable solutions for crop residue burning: an environmental issue in northwestern states of India. Environment Development and Sustainability. 23(3). 3696–3730. 43 indexed citations

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Kumar, Pravin, et al.. (2019). MONITORING OF RICE CROP IN PUNJAB AND HARYANA WITH RESPECT TO RESIDUE BURNING. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. XLII-3/W6. 31–36. 10 indexed citations

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Kumar, Pravin, Raj Singh, & Ravi Shankar. (2017). Efficiency measurement of fertilizer-manufacturing organizations using Fuzzy data envelopment analysis. Journal of Management Analytics. 4(3). 276–295. 8 indexed citations

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Singh, Raj, Saroj Koul, & Pravin Kumar. (2017). Analyzing the interaction of factors for flexibility in supply chains. Journal of Modelling in Management. 12(4). 671–689. 26 indexed citations

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Kumar, Pravin, et al.. (2017). Determination of hierarchical relationships among sustainable development goals using interpretive structural modeling. Environment Development and Sustainability. 20(5). 2119–2137. 55 indexed citations

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Singh, Raj, et al.. (2017). Justification of maintenance management: AHP approach. 959–963. 5 indexed citations

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Singh, Raj, Ravinder Kumar, & Pravin Kumar. (2016). Strategic issues in pharmaceutical supply chains: a review. International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing. 10(3). 234–257. 88 indexed citations

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Singh, Rajesh Kumar, et al.. (2015). Evaluation of Maintainability Index of a Mechanical System using Graph Theoretic Approach. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. 189. 303–313. 5 indexed citations

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Bansal, Ankit, et al.. (2014). Evaluation of a 3PL company: an approach of fuzzy modelling. International Journal of Advanced Operations Management. 6(2). 131–131. 16 indexed citations

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Bansal, Ankit, et al.. (2013). 3PL selection: A multi-criteria decision making approach. 981–985. 4 indexed citations

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Kumar, Pravin, Ravi Shankar, & Surendra S. Yadav. (2008). An integrated approach of Analytic Hierarchy Process and Fuzzy Linear Programming for supplier selection. International Journal of Operational Research. 3(6). 614–614. 28 indexed citations

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