Stefan Minner

7.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
171 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Stefan Minner is a scholar working on Management Information Systems, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefan Minner has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 108 papers in Management Information Systems, 63 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 50 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Stefan Minner's work include Supply Chain and Inventory Management (103 papers), Sustainable Supply Chain Management (48 papers) and Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms (33 papers). Stefan Minner is often cited by papers focused on Supply Chain and Inventory Management (103 papers), Sustainable Supply Chain Management (48 papers) and Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms (33 papers). Stefan Minner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and Netherlands. Stefan Minner's co-authors include Bin Shen, Pirmin Fontaine, Ciwei Dong, Sandra Transchel, Nils Löhndorf, Tsan‐Ming Choi, Lena Silbermayr, Rainer Kleber, Mirko Kremer and Luk N. Van Wassenhove and has published in prestigious journals such as Management Science, European Journal of Operational Research and Operations Research.

In The Last Decade

Stefan Minner

164 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Combating Copycats in the Supply Chain with Permissioned Blockchain Technology

2021 326 citations Stefan Minner et al. Production and Operations Management profile →
A review on supply chain contracting with information considerations: information updating and information asymmetry

2018 241 citations Stefan Minner et al. profile →
ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence: an exploratory study of key benefits and challenges in operations and supply chain management

2023 105 citations Stefan Minner et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stefan Minner Germany	36	2.9k	2.2k	1.3k	795	581	171	4.9k
Ilkyeong Moon South Korea	45	3.4k 1.2×	2.4k 1.1×	2.5k 1.9×	814 1.0×	576 1.0×	199	6.2k
Xiang Li China	37	1.2k 0.4×	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	871 1.1×	656 1.1×	200	4.9k
Sai‐Ho Chung Hong Kong	39	1.5k 0.5×	2.4k 1.1×	2.4k 1.9×	670 0.8×	1.2k 2.0×	210	6.6k
H.C.W. Lau Hong Kong	41	1.9k 0.6×	1.8k 0.8×	1.8k 1.4×	1.2k 1.5×	371 0.6×	202	5.9k
Jan C. Fransoo Netherlands	40	2.5k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	1.8k 1.4×	970 1.2×	610 1.0×	194	5.3k
Elkafi Hassini Canada	25	1.7k 0.6×	2.3k 1.1×	979 0.8×	793 1.0×	594 1.0×	75	4.2k
Benita M. Beamon United States	20	3.5k 1.2×	4.1k 1.9×	1.5k 1.2×	918 1.2×	636 1.1×	34	7.8k
Ruud Teunter Netherlands	48	3.9k 1.3×	3.5k 1.6×	1.3k 1.0×	1.3k 1.7×	827 1.4×	137	7.2k
Guoqing Zhang Canada	34	1.5k 0.5×	2.1k 1.0×	766 0.6×	681 0.9×	546 0.9×	105	3.7k
K.L. Choy Hong Kong	45	1.8k 0.6×	1.8k 0.8×	2.6k 2.0×	1.2k 1.6×	447 0.8×	190	7.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Stefan Minner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stefan Minner

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefan Minner

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All Works

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Minner, Stefan, et al.. (2025). The more you buy, the more you pay? Commodity procurement under price uncertainty and market impact. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 77(2). 555–581.

Tang, Christopher S., et al.. (2025). Analysis of mutual benefit from information sharing and exchange between an online platform and a seller. European Journal of Operational Research. 331(3). 849–865.

Minner, Stefan, et al.. (2025). Auditing and training to incentivize sustainability in multi-tier supply chains: Substitutes or complements?. European Journal of Operational Research. 330(2). 656–670.

Minner, Stefan, et al.. (2025). The impact of initial inventory assumptions on cost performance in lot-sizing models. European Journal of Operational Research. 329(2). 447–459.

Minner, Stefan, et al.. (2025). Pricing policy and queue-length disclosure in on-demand service platforms. Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review. 204. 104422–104422.

Minner, Stefan, et al.. (2024). Deep reinforcement learning for demand fulfillment in online retail. International Journal of Production Economics. 269. 109133–109133. 7 indexed citations

Minner, Stefan, et al.. (2024). Probabilistic forecast-based procurement in seaborne forward freight markets under demand and price uncertainty. Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review. 193. 103830–103830. 1 indexed citations

Minner, Stefan, et al.. (2024). Data-driven multi-location inventory placement in digital commerce. Computers & Industrial Engineering. 200. 110842–110842. 2 indexed citations

Minner, Stefan, et al.. (2023). Optimal inventory control with cyclic fixed order costs. Production and Operations Management. 32(10). 3286–3294. 1 indexed citations

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Florio, Alexandre M., Michel Gendreau, Richard F. Hartl, Stefan Minner, & Thibaut Vidal. (2022). Recent advances in vehicle routing with stochastic demands: Bayesian learning for correlated demands and elementary branch-price-and-cut. European Journal of Operational Research. 306(3). 1081–1093. 14 indexed citations

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Minner, Stefan, et al.. (2021). The Competitive Pickup and Delivery Orienteering Problem for Balancing Car-Sharing Systems. Transportation Science. 55(6). 1232–1259. 8 indexed citations

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Florio, Alexandre M., Richard F. Hartl, Stefan Minner, & Juan‐José Salazar‐González. (2020). A Branch-and-Price Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands and Probabilistic Duration Constraints. Transportation Science. 55(1). 122–138. 22 indexed citations

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Fontaine, Pirmin, et al.. (2020). Human solution strategies for the vehicle routing problem: Experimental findings and a choice-based theory. Computers & Operations Research. 120. 104962–104962. 3 indexed citations

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Minner, Stefan, et al.. (2019). A Linearization Approach to the Stochastic Dynamic Capacitated Lotsizing Problem with Sequence-Dependent Changeovers. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 2 indexed citations

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Florio, Alexandre M., Richard F. Hartl, & Stefan Minner. (2018). Optimal a priori tour and restocking policy for the single-vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands. European Journal of Operational Research. 285(1). 172–182. 20 indexed citations

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Minner, Stefan, et al.. (2018). Data-driven retail inventory management with backroom effect. OR Spectrum. 40(4). 945–968. 14 indexed citations

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Minner, Stefan, et al.. (2017). Data-driven assignment of delivery patterns with handling effort considerations in retail. Computers & Operations Research. 100. 379–393. 16 indexed citations

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Minner, Stefan, et al.. (2014). The Data-Driven Newsvendor with Censored Observations. International Journal of Production Economics. 149. 28–36. 14 indexed citations

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Kremer, Mirko & Stefan Minner. (2008). The Human Element in Inventory Decision Making under Uncertainty – A Review of Experimental Evidence in the Newsvendor Model. 83–97. 6 indexed citations

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Tsoulfas, Giannis Τ., Costas P. Pappis, & Stefan Minner. (2002). An environmental analysis of the reverse supply chain of SLI batteries. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 36(2). 135–154. 38 indexed citations

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