Sara Behdad

4.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
117 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Sara Behdad is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Behdad has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 34 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 27 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sara Behdad's work include Manufacturing Process and Optimization (40 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (30 papers) and Sustainable Supply Chain Management (25 papers). Sara Behdad is often cited by papers focused on Manufacturing Process and Optimization (40 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (30 papers) and Sustainable Supply Chain Management (25 papers). Sara Behdad collaborates with scholars based in United States, Iran and Australia. Sara Behdad's co-authors include Behzad Esmaeilian, Ben Wang, Kemper Lewis, Joseph Sarkis, Ardeshir Raihanian Mashhadi, Mostafa Sabbaghi, Deborah Thurston, Willie Cade, Xiao Liang and Minghui Zheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Energy Policy and International Journal of Production Economics.

In The Last Decade

Sara Behdad

111 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Blockchain for the future of sustainable supply chain management in Industry 4.0

2020 558 citations Behzad Esmaeilian, Joseph Sarkis et al. Resources Conservation and Recycling profile →
The evolution and future of manufacturing: A review

2016 492 citations Behzad Esmaeilian, Sara Behdad et al. profile →
The future of waste management in smart and sustainable cities: A review and concept paper

2018 313 citations Behzad Esmaeilian, Ben Wang et al. Waste Management profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sara Behdad United States	25	1.2k	1.2k	750	392	389	117	3.2k
Vladimir Šimić Serbia	39	504 0.4×	1.0k 0.9×	670 0.9×	284 0.7×	206 0.5×	257	4.3k
Dimitris Kiritsis Switzerland	36	2.9k 2.3×	865 0.7×	308 0.4×	249 0.6×	369 0.9×	179	5.1k
Ting Qu China	39	3.0k 2.4×	1.4k 1.2×	464 0.6×	154 0.4×	426 1.1×	188	5.6k
Tsai‐Chi Kuo Taiwan	36	1.2k 1.0×	2.5k 2.1×	568 0.8×	259 0.7×	143 0.4×	100	4.6k
Sergio Terzi Italy	32	1.7k 1.4×	2.5k 2.1×	846 1.1×	210 0.5×	145 0.4×	173	4.6k
Xiang Li China	37	1.4k 1.1×	1.5k 1.3×	301 0.4×	512 1.3×	161 0.4×	200	4.9k
Behzad Esmaeilian United States	12	590 0.5×	724 0.6×	402 0.5×	123 0.3×	309 0.8×	20	1.7k
Guangdong Tian China	46	2.7k 2.2×	1.1k 0.9×	435 0.6×	775 2.0×	195 0.5×	139	6.3k
Zhigang Jiang China	29	872 0.7×	857 0.7×	367 0.5×	223 0.6×	83 0.2×	123	2.6k
Marco Taisch Italy	29	1.9k 1.5×	1.4k 1.2×	236 0.3×	123 0.3×	200 0.5×	172	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Sara Behdad

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sara Behdad

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Behdad

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sara Behdad. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sara Behdad 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 Sara Behdad. Sara Behdad 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

Esmaeilian, Behzad, et al.. (2026). Electric Vehicle Batteries Recycling: A Review. Waste Management. 212. 115302–115302.

Chen, Yuhao, et al.. (2025). Forecasting the Range of Possible Human Hand Movement in Consumer Electronics Disassembly Using Machine Learning. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering. 25(5).

Smith, Rachel S. & Sara Behdad. (2025). From present to future: A review of e-waste recycling processes. Waste Management. 204. 114863–114863. 1 indexed citations

Sabbaghi, Mostafa & Sara Behdad. (2024). Optimizing Design for Repairability: A Game Theoretic Approach for Incorporating Market Analysis. Journal of Mechanical Design. 147(7).

Sabbaghi, Mostafa & Sara Behdad. (2024). Estimating energy left in discarded alkaline batteries: Evaluating consumption and recovery opportunities. Waste Management. 189. 58–67. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Xinyao, et al.. (2024). Multi-Task Learning for Intention and Trajectory Prediction in Human–Robot Collaborative Disassembly Tasks. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering. 25(5).

Zhang, Xinyao, et al.. (2024). Multi-Task Learning for Intention and Trajectory Prediction in Human-Robot Collaborative Disassembly Tasks. 1 indexed citations

Peeters, Jef, et al.. (2024). A Disassembly Score for Human-Robot Collaboration Considering Robots’ Capabilities. 1 indexed citations

Lee, Meng-Lun, et al.. (2023). A Review of Prospects and Opportunities in Disassembly With Human–Robot Collaboration. Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering. 146(2). 26 indexed citations

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Chen, Yuhao, et al.. (2023). Human activity recognition in an end-of-life consumer electronics disassembly task. Applied Ergonomics. 113. 104090–104090. 9 indexed citations

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Banu, Mihaela, Sara Behdad, Daniel Cooper, et al.. (2023). Joint Special Issue: Advances in Design and Manufacturing for Sustainability. Journal of Mechanical Design. 146(2). 1 indexed citations

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Gopalakrishnan, Praveen Kumare, John Hall, & Sara Behdad. (2020). Cost analysis and optimization of Blockchain-based solid waste management traceability system. Waste Management. 120. 594–607. 92 indexed citations

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Esmaeilian, Behzad, Joseph Sarkis, Kemper Lewis, & Sara Behdad. (2020). Blockchain for the future of sustainable supply chain management in Industry 4.0. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 163. 105064–105064. 558 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gopalakrishnan, Praveen Kumare, et al.. (2019). A Decision-Making Framework for Blockchain Technology Selection. 3(2). 148–168. 2 indexed citations

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Esmaeilian, Behzad, et al.. (2019). A Blockchain Platform for Protecting Intellectual Property: Implications for Additive Manufacturing. 7 indexed citations

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Sabbaghi, Mostafa, et al.. (2018). The Global Flow of Hard Disk Drives: Quantifying the Concept of Value Leakage in E‐waste Recovery Systems. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 23(3). 560–573. 16 indexed citations

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Esmaeilian, Behzad, Ben Wang, Kemper Lewis, et al.. (2018). The future of waste management in smart and sustainable cities: A review and concept paper. Waste Management. 81. 177–195. 313 indexed citations breakdown →

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Anagnostopoulos, Theodoros, et al.. (2018). A stochastic optimization framework for planning of waste collection and value recovery operations in smart and sustainable cities. Waste Management. 78. 104–114. 72 indexed citations

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Mashhadi, Ardeshir Raihanian & Sara Behdad. (2017). Environmental Impact Assessment of the Heterogeneity in Consumers’ Usage Behavior: An Agent‐Based Modeling Approach. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 22(4). 706–719. 29 indexed citations

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Sabbaghi, Mostafa, Behzad Esmaeilian, Ardeshir Raihanian Mashhadi, Sara Behdad, & Willie Cade. (2014). An investigation of used electronics return flows: A data-driven approach to capture and predict consumers storage and utilization behavior. Waste Management. 36. 305–315. 47 indexed citations

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