Category Archives: Logistics

Keeping alert! with latest research results

Posted on August 24, 2011 by | 1 Comment

Technology is our friend in receiving alerts on what has been published lately: there are alert e-mails from publishers, even RSS feeds of journals*. You can sign up for your Emerald alerts or access Elsevier theme websites, Inderscience blogs or follow any through facebook/twitter/you name it. I.e., social networks help as well, though still the most targeted are research networks that send out CFPs and TOC alerts. Many of these are specialised, with groups in e.g. SCrisk mgmt sending out their own newsletters etc. And what is new, IJPDLM‘s TOC alerts are now sent out via Elmar as well, extending SCM to marketing scholars and hopefully sparking a debate between disciplines (and avoiding reinventing the wheel).

Gyöngyi

*Admittedly, not on this blog, but I have managed to integrate the feeds of some SCM journals on my academia.edu account :-)

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Posted in Academic journals, Logistics, Socks and sandals, Supply Chain Management

And the winner is…

Posted on August 12, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Not sure yet. But you can apply to become one :-)

The 2011 Emerald/EMFD doctoral disseration awards are once again up for grabs, deadline Oct 1, 2011. Two of them should be of interest to SCM researchers, with
- IJPDLM sponsoring one in “logistics and supply chain management”, and
- IJOPM another in “operations and production management”.
Other awards in this category include
- IIE’s Pritsker doctoral dissertation award (DL Dec 1, 2011)
- CILT UK’s James Cooper Memorial Cup (DL usually in May but for UK&Ireland students only),
- CSCMP’s doctoral dissertation award (DL also in May)
- and other organisations give similar awards, e.g. DSI,

There are also awards for (doctoral) dissertation proposals, e.g. SMRC’s dissertation proposal award (deadline usually in August), and even some of POMS’s subgroups have similar awards.

There are also scholarships and awards for logistics students on bachelors and masters levels, e.g. through SOLE’s logistics scholarship competition (next deadline should be May 15, 2012). CILT UK gives awards to undergraduate (bachelor or masters) dissertations as well but then again only to students of member universities. Similar awards are given in many other countries, check out your own associations.

Gyöngyi

PS. Again, this is not an exhaustive list, feel free to post other links to awards and their application deadlines in the comments.

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Posted in Logistics, Operations management, Supply Chain Management

Recent ISI ratings of logistics / SCM journals – including new ones for JBL, IJPDLM, IJLRA

Posted on August 3, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Quite a few logistics and SCM journals got their first ever ISI rating* recently, including JBL, IJPDLM, IJLRA etc. Others are still in the queue and will probably get their first rate next year. But here is a list of some that already have a rating:

Let’s start with the “newbies” on the list – NB! the ratings are quite impressive and compare rather well to the “oldies”:

JBL: 3.905
IJPDLM: 2.617
IJLRA (IJoL): 0.558

And here are some others (in alphabetical order), with the 5-year rates in brackets if available:

Dec.Sci (DSJ): 2.233 (3.937)
EJOR: 2.158 (2.512)
IJOPM: 1.812 (2.792)
IJPE: 1.988 (2.411)
IJPR: 1.033 (1.469)
Interfaces: 0.826 (1.115)
JOM: 5.093 (6.029)
MS (ManSci): 2.221 (3.966)
Omega: 3.467 (3.733)
POM: 1.851 (3.147)
SCMIJ (SCM): 2.473 (3.427)
TJ: 2.348 (2.853)
TRE: 1.954 (2.516)

Ok, some disclaimers: This doesn’t include all MS/OR journals but the highest rate I found among those (so far) was MIS Quarterly with 5.041 (9.821). I may also just have missed some journals. So feel free to add them and their rates in the comments section!

Also, rates depend on whether journals that actually cite a journal are captured by the ranking system, how many numbers (and articles) a year a journal publishes etc.  Anyhow, this is it for now.

Gyöngyi

*abbreviations as follows: ISI rate = Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Knowledge rate from their Journal Citation Report; JBL = Journal of Business Logistics, IJPDLM = International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, IJLRA (IJoL) = International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications. The rest can be found through the links.

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Posted in Academic journals, Journal ranking, Logistics, Operations management, Supply Chain Management

Gerontology meets transportation research

Posted on June 1, 2011 by | Leave a comment

…at a conference on “aging, mobility and quality of life“. Couldn’t be more timely with all the discussion about ageing populations in quite some parts of the Northern hemisphere. Here in Finland the debate goes as far as to question our standard of living in the future due to population ageing. Somewhat related to such population trends (and the mainstream cluster discourse), Nikodemus Solitander just questioned why Finland would want to attract more knowledge workers given its overeducated population where one cannot find enough plumbers, construction workers, bus drivers and cashiers…

But back to transportation research, the conference reminds of some of the gender projects in transportation, e.g. of the World Bank, the European Commission, UNEP, ADB, IFRTD and alls sorts of other lovely acronym organisations. There is even a community of practice for people working in this field. Not as if these problems would have been resolved – far from it! – but it is time to take on also age discrimination as well as different mobility patterns on the research agenda.

Gyöngyi

 

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Posted in Call for papers, Logistics, Transport geography

Literature review made easy

Posted on April 7, 2011 by | 1 Comment

There are lots of literature reviews and conceptual papers out there so this is not the thing. This “ListAssist” is making the start easier listing key articles and book chapters in particular areas denoting their content but also their methods. There are three within the area of “operations and logistics management”: logistics and supply chain management, humanitarian logistics, and sustainable technology management. A good start making research – and teaching – somewhat easier.

Gyöngyi

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Posted in Academic publications, Humanitarian supply chains, Logistics, Operations management, Research & Methodology, Supply Chain Management, Sustainability

We love logistics

Posted on December 7, 2010 by | 1 Comment

Upon discovering that logistics can also be an artist (with fitting song themes such as “warehouse”), “we love logistics” also became a song title. Never mind the commercial, I just love the song :-)

Gyöngyi

PS. kudos to Fiona

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Posted in Logistics, Socks and sandals

Now: MILLOG Symposium 2010

Posted on December 2, 2010 by | Leave a comment

There are some excellent papers here at the 2010 MILLOG symposium. “Hot” topics seem to be PPPs between defence organisations and logistics service providers, changing business models in the military, and logistics strategy (and its implementation). Right on time to raise these topics before the deadline of the IJPDLM special issue on “Developments in defence logistics” (deadline Jan 31, 2011). And who knew the “real” meaning of a symposium?

Gyöngyi

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Posted in Call for papers, Conferences, Logistics

Journal of the week: IJPDLM

Posted on November 30, 2010 by | Leave a comment

…meaning access to the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management is free for this week through this link. The choice of the journal is not surprising considering the news about its impact factor (to be announced for the first time in the 2011 round of the Thomson Reuters SSCI).

News for service (operations) junkies at the same time: IJPDLM calls for papers on “Applying service-dominant logic to physical distribution and logistics management“. The guest editors include the fathers of S-D logic :-) Deadline Nov 30, 2011

Gyöngyi

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Posted in Academic journals, Call for papers, Journal ranking, Logistics, Service management

International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management in ISI

Posted on November 11, 2010 by | 2 Comments

Another logistics / SCM journal made it into the ISI: The International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management. This was the message from Thomson Reuters:

I am happy to inform you that the International Journal of Physical
> Distribution & Logistics Management has been selected for coverage in
> our products Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences (CC/S&BS)
> and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI).

We are happy, too :-)

Gyöngyi

PS Now it is just time to wait for the actual rates and ranks of all the logistics journals that got in recently.

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Posted in Academic journals, Academic publications, Journal ranking, Logistics, Supply Chain Management

Meet the editors of IJPDLM

Posted on November 3, 2010 by | Leave a comment

If you cannot make it to a “meet the editors” event (e.g. at EUROMA but also at the next NordLog of NOFOMA), you can always look at podcasts of different journals. Here’s one with the new IJPDLM editors Alex Ellinger and Glenn Richey outlining their vision for the journal.

Gyöngyi

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Posted in Academic journals, Logistics, Popular science, Supply Chain Management