HONORS. DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS INCLUDING BIBLIOMETRICS

A. To myself

1.     Fellowship, NTUA (1969-74).

2.     Honorary Award, Contest of Hellenic Mathematical Society (1969).

3.     Bourse d' Etudes Superieures, French Government (1974- declined, to accept offer from MIT).

4.     Henry L. Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization, MIT (7/1979-6/1981).

5.     First Prize, PhD Dissertation Contest, Transportation Science Section of ORSA (1979).

6.     Fellow, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) (since 2009).

7.     Eykranti 2011 Award for the best representation of the Greek Shipping Industry (together with P. Zachariadis).

8.     MEL Palgrave MacMillan IAME 2019 best conference paper award for paper “Speed optimization vs speed reduction: the speed limit debate”, IAME 2019 conference, Athens, Greece, June 2019.

9.     IAME 2019 conference best reviewer award. 

10.  Maritime Policy & Management - Best Manuscript Award 2019, for paper “Operational measures to mitigate and reverse the potential modal shifts due to environmental legislation", with Thalis Zis. 

11. Maritime Business Review -Literati Award 2020 (highly commended paper) for paper “The enforcement of the global sulfur cap in maritime transport”, with Dimitra Topali. 

12.  Green4Sea Personality award, Safety4Sea.com, 2021.

13.  Best paper prize at the MTEC/ICMASS 2022 conference for paper “Development of an advanced, efficient and green intermodal system with autonomous inland and short sea shipping – AEGIS” (with 11 co-authors).

14.  Confederation of European Maritime Technology Societies (CEMT) 2022 Award.

15. Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain- Best Research Article Award 2023 for paper "Ship speed vs power or fuel consumption: are laws of physics still valid? Regression analysis pitfalls and misguided policy implications", with Sotiria Lagouvadou. 

16. Journal of Ship Research- Honorable Mention for the 2025 Vice Admiral E. L. Cochrane Award for the paper “Propeller and Engine Performance of Commercial Windships: Benefits and Trade-Offs”, with Martina Reche-Vilanova, Harry Bingham, Dale Morris and Manuel Fluck. 

 

B. To the NTUA Laboratory for Maritime Transport

1.     Lloyds List "Piraeus International Centre" Award (2008).

2.     Lloyds List Award for "Achievement in Maritime Safety or Environmental Protection" (2010).

3.     EU FP7 Project SuperGreen (2010-2013) characterized as a ‘success story’ by the European Commission (2015). See HERE.

C. To DTU

 

EU H2020 project AEGIS, of which DTU is a partner,  received the Waterborne TP award in the “Market uptake” category (2023). See HERE.

 

AWARD PICTURE GALLERY

D. To my students

1.     Thompson, P.M., Honorable Mention, MIT PhD Thesis, “Local Search Algorithms for Vehicle Routing and Other Combinatorial Problems,” PhD Dissertation Contest, Transportation Science Section of ORSA (1989).

2.   Schinas, O., Honorary Award, Technical Chamber of Greece, NTUA Diploma Thesis “The carriage of goods between Greece and the rest of Europe: status and prospects” (1994).

3.    Ventikos, N. P., Honorary Award, Technical Chamber of Greece, NTUA Diploma Thesis “Oil Spill Control Programme” (1996).

4.    Ventikos, N. P., Environmental Award “G.P. Livanos”, sponsored by the Hellenic Chamber of Shiping for project “Oil Spill Control Program” (2000).

5.     Nitsopoulos, S., First prize, SNAME Greek Section’s Diploma Thesis Contest for 2006. Thesis title: “The Renewal of the Mediterranean Short Sea Cargo Fleet, as a Strategy for the Development of Short Sea Shipping”, NTUA. (2006).

6.    Lagouvardou, S., Young Researcher 2023 Award, International Transport Forum, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (2023).

E. Bibliometrics

1.     Included in the list of top 50 authors in maritime research (2018), ranked No. 6 in terms of impact score (2010-2015), and No. 12 in terms of impact score (overall).[1]  

2.     Included in the global “highly cited researchers” 2019 database (top 100,000, among a list of 6,880,389 researchers), ranked No. ranked No. 39 (or top 0.25%) among 15,386 researchers in the “Logistics and Transportation” area. [2] 

3.     Included in the 2021 edition of the global database (8,547,891 researchers), ranked in the No. 42,781 position on a career basis and in the No. 13,781 position on a single year basis. Within the “Logistics and transportation” subfield, and among 25,751 researchers, ranked No. 39 on a career basis and No. 33 on a single year basis, or top 0.16% globally.[3] 

4.     Included in the 25-year anniversary issue of Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. [4] 

5.     Paper “A Heuristic Algorithm for the Multi-Vehicle Advance-Request Dial-A-Ride Problem with Time Windows,” (1986) with J. Jaw, A. Odoni and N. Wilson, was ranked No. 40 (or top 1.5%) in Web of Science citations among 2,697 papers published in Transportation Research Part B (Methodological) during the period 1979-2019[5]. 

6.     Paper “CO₂ statistics for the world commercial fleet” (2009) with C. Kontovas, was ranked No. 1 (or top 0.3%) in Google Scholar citations among 325 papers published in the WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs during the period 2002-2019[6]. 

7.     Paper “Dynamic vehicle routing: three decades and counting” (2016) with M. Wen and C. Kontovas is No. 2 (or top 0.18%) in downloads and No. 21 (or top 2%) in Web of Science citations among nearly 1,100 papers published in Networks during the period 1999-2020[7]. 

8.     Paper “Speed Models for Energy Efficient Maritime Transportation” (2013) with C. Kontovas is the No. 1 cited paper in ship energy efficiency & decarbonization according to a 2022 bibliometric survey[8]. 

9.   According to the same survey, I am the author with the highest number of publications (28) on the above topic.

10. In the 2022 edition of the Stanford/Elsevier database, I am globally ranked No. 37 in the "Logistics & Transportation" sub-field on a career basis, and No. 25 on a single year (2022) basis. This means that I am within the top 0.14% of the above subfield.

11. In the 2023 edition of the Stanford/Elsevier database, I am globally ranked No. 34 in the "Logistics & Transportation" sub-field on a career basis, and No. 22 on a single year (2023) basis. This means that I am within the top 0.12% of the above subfield.

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[1] Chang, Y.-T., Choi, K.-S., Jo, A., Park, H., 2018, Top 50 authors, affiliations and countries in maritime research, Int. J. Shipping and Transport Logistics, Vol. 10, No. 1, 87-111.

[2] https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/1

[3] https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3

[4] Cao, J., Li, S., Noland, R., Ge, Y-E, The first 25 years of Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. Transportation Research Part D https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2021.103078

[5] Jiang, C., Bhat, C., and Lam, W., 2020, A bibliometric overview of Transportation Research Part B: Methodological in the past forty years (1979–2019), Transportation Research Part B 138 (2020) 268–291

[6] Sahoo, S. and Schönborn, A., 2020, A bibliometric overview of WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs since its inception in 2002. WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs https://doi.org/10.1007/s13437-020-00197-w

[7] Golden, B.L., Shier, D.R., 2020, Twenty-one years in the life of Networks (2000 to 2020), Networks. 2020;1–9. DOI: 10.1002/net.21986

[8] Jimenez, V. J., Kim, H., Munim, Z. H. 2022, A review of ship energy efficiency research and directions towards emission reduction in the maritime industry, Journal of Cleaner Production, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.132888

 

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHB3bmdjRrI

[2] https://op.europa.eu/s/n5Ff