How to design, write, and publish high-impact research in top-tier journals across Operations Management, Operations Research, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management

Summary of the seminar

This seminar provides a practical, research-driven perspective on how to design, write, and publish high-impact research in top-tier journals across Operations Management, Operations Research, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management.

Drawing on insights from editorial experience and leading scholars, the first part of the talk outlines how high-quality papers are evaluated, how to articulate contribution, how to position analytical and empirical work, how to structure introductions and literature reviews, how to avoid common pitfalls, and how to navigate the review and revision process strategically. Special attention is given to developing research ideas, building strong methodological alignment, and crafting papers that offer rigorous, novel, and practice-relevant insights.

The second part offers an updated overview of Transportation Research Part E  (its scope, expectations, review process, desk-rejection criteria, bibliometric position, and common reasons for acceptance or rejection) providing guidance for authors aiming to publish in TR-E.

Bio

Reza Zanjirani Farahani is a Full Professor of Supply Chain Management at Paris School of Business. His academic career spans leading institutions including Rennes School of Business, Kingston University London, Cambridge Judge Business School, the National University of Singapore (in collaboration with Kyoto University), Amirkabir University of Technology, and Sharif University of Technology.

He has published nearly 100 peer-reviewed journal articles in top outlets such as Production and Operations Management, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, Transportation Research Part E, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, and International Journal of Production Economics. His research focuses on operations-driven problem solving in transport, logistics, and supply chains, with applications in circular economy systems, urban and maritime transport, healthcare, disaster management, energy, and agri-food supply chains.

Reza currently serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research Part E and as Senior Editor for Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, and Service Science. He also serves on the editorial boards of several leading journals, including IJOPM, IJPR, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and Computers & Operations Research. He has chaired major international conferences, including POMS Brighton (2019) and POMS Paris (2023). A Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and an active PhD supervisor. He currently leads and participates in several large-scale EU-funded research projects, including a €5 million Horizon Europe project on post-consumer textile circularity.

Open to

The seminar is open to researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg.

Host

Transport Area of Advance.