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Dr. K. Mathiyazhagan

Dr. K. Mathiyazhagan

Dr. K. Mathiyazhagan

Associate Professor,
Chairperson - Research Centre

B.E., M.E., Ph.D. (NIT Trichy)
kmathiyazhagan@tsm.ac.in
Faculty Unique ID: 1-9459151168

Biography

Dr. K. Mathiyazhagan is the Chairperson – Research Centre and Associate Professor, Thiagarajar School of Management, Madurai, Tamil Nadu. He is an assistant editor in Technological Forecasting and Social Change (Elsevier) -IF: 12, associate editor in Business Strategy and the Environment (Wiley) – IF: 13.4, Management Decision (Emerald)- IF: 4.9 and Environment, Development and Sustainability Journal (Springer) with an impact factor of 4.1. He is a leading guest editor of special issues in Journal of Business Logistics (JBL), the International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management (IJPDLM), the International Journal of Logistics Management (IJLM), Sustainable Production and Consumption (Elsevier), Socio-Economic Planning Science (Elsevier).

He has also been an editorial member in many reputed journals. Also, he has been listed among the Top 2% of scientists (Stanford’s list World’s Top 2% of scientists). He has published in numerous journals, including IJPE, IJPR, PPC, IEEE TEM, JCP, RCR, etc. with more than 5000 research citations. One of his papers was awarded the Excellence Citation Award by Emerald Publisher Ltd. In addition, he is editing international books on Blockchain & Lean-Green & Society 4.0 in Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, and Springer publishers. He was invited to visit Roma TRE University, Italy Feb 2023 for research collaboration and invited to visit Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom to organize a joint international research excellence workshop on 7 September 2023. He is an active reviewer of more than 30 reputed international journals, receiving the best reviewer certificates from reputed journals.

He has organized two international conferences and workshops. Also, he has edited many international conference proceedings by Springer Publishers. His research interests include Green and Sustainable Supply Chain Management; Multi-Criteria Decision Making; Sustainable Lean Manufacturing, Public Distribution System; Lean Six Sigma. Recently, he has received a grant from AICTE for two ATAL FDP for conducting FDPs on Six Sigma in Quality Management, and Circular Economy and Business Models to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals. He is a visiting faculty at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. He supervised more than 10 undergraduates, 3 postgraduates and 3 Ph.D. scholars. He has more than 10 years of research and teaching experience with many accolades.

     

Publications

An integrated decision making approach for the selection of battery recycling plant location under sustainable environment S. Umar Sherif ., P. Asokan ., P. Sasikumar ., K. Mathiyazhagan ., J. Jerald ., Article Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 330, Year 2022

A framework for implementing sustainable lean manufacturing in the electrical and electronics component manufacturing industry: An emerging economies country perspective Mathiyazhagan K.;Gnanavelbabu A.;Kumar.N N.;Agarwal V. Article Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 334, Year 2022

Equivalent structural parameters based non-destructive prediction of sustainable concrete strength using machine learning models via piezo sensor Tushar Bansal ., Visalakshi Talakokula ., Kaliyan Mathiyazhagan ., Article Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation, Volume 187, Year 2022

Equivalent structural parameters based non-destructive prediction of sustainable concrete strength using machine learning models via piezo sensor Tushar Bansal ., Visalakshi Talakokula ., Kaliyan Mathiyazhagan ., Article Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation, Volume 187, Year 2022

Barriers in the adoption of buyback schemes for used plastic packaging material – a contextual relationship analysis K.E.K. Vimal ., Vernika Agarwal ., K. Mathiyazhagan ., Article Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Volume 178, Year 2022

Deepak Mathivathanan, K. Mathiyazhagan, Nripendra Rana, Sangeeta Khorana; Yogesh Dwivedi (2021) “Barriers to the Adoption of Blockchain Technology in Business Supply Chains: A Total Interpretive Structural Modelling (TISM) approach” International Journal of Production Research (Taylor & Francis) – https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2020.1868597  (CNRS – 2) (ABDC – A) IF: 4.577  – SCI Indexed.

Anandh, G., PrasannaVenkatesan, S., Goh, M., & Mathiyazhagan, K. (2021). Reuse assessment of WEEE: Systematic review of emerging themes and research directions. Journal of Environmental Management (Elsevier), 287, 112335. (CNRS – 2) (ABDC – A) IF: 5.647  – SCI Indexed.

Vernika Agarwal, K. Mathiyazhagan, Snigtha Malholtra,  Tarik Saikouk (2021), “Analysis of Challenges in Sustainable Human Resource Management Due to Disruptions by Industry 4.0: An Emerging Economy Perspective”, International Journal of Manpower (Emerald), (CNRS – 3) (ABDC- A) IF: 0.943

Goel, P., Sharma, N., Mathiyazhagan, K., & Vimal, K. E. K. (2021) “Government is trying but consumers are not buying: A barrier analysis for electric vehicle sales in India”, Sustainable Production and Consumption (Elsevier) – IF: 5.647 – SSCI Indexed.

UmarSherif, P.Asokan, P.Sasikumar, K.Mathiyazhagan, J.Jerald (2021) “Integrated optimization of transportation, inventory and vehicle routing with simultaneous pickup and delivery in two-echelon green supply chain network”, Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier), 287, 125434 – (ABDC – A) IF: 7.246 – SCI Indexed.

Krishnan Srijit, Sumit Gupta, Mathiyazhagan Kaliyan, Vikas Kumar, and Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes. (2021) “Assessing the key enablers for Industry 4.0 adoption using MICMAC analysis: a case study”, International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management (Emerald) – (ABDC-B). Accepted for publication. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPPM-02-2020-0053.

Srijit Krishna, K. Mathiyazhagan, Raja Sreedharan (2020) “Developing a hybrid approach for Lean Six Sigma project management: A case application in the reamer manufacturing industry”, IEEE Transaction Engineering Management – Accepted for publication (CNRS – 3) (ABDC – A) IF: 2.05 – SCI Indexed

Vimal KEK, K. Mathiyazhagan Vernika Agawal, K. Sivakumar, Sunil Luthra (2020) “Analysis of barriers that impede the elimination of single use plastic in developing economy context” Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier), 227, 122629. (ABDC – A) IF: 7.246 – SCI Indexed.

Abhijit Majumdar, Sanjib Sinha, Mahesh Shaw, Kaliyan Mathiyazhagan (2020) “Analyzing the Vulnerability of Green Clothing Supply Chains in South and Southeast Asia using Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process”, International Journal of Production Research (Taylor & Francis), 59 (3),(CNRS – 2) (ABDC – A) IF: 4.577  – SCI Indexed

Sakthi Nagaraj, Jeyapal & K. Mathiyazhagan (2019) “Evaluation of ergonomic working conditions among standing sewing machine operators in Sri Lanka, International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics (Elsevier), 70, 70-83. DOI: 10.1016/j.ergon.2019.01.006Impact Factor: 1.662 – SCI Indexed 

Sakthi Nagaraj, Jeyapal, Vimal KEK & K. Mathiyazhagan (2019) “Integration of human factors and ergonomics into lean implementation: Ergonomic-value stream map approach in the Textile industry”, Production Planning & Control (Taylor & Francis), 30(15), 1265-1282 (CNRS – 2) (ABDC – A) IF: 3.605 – SCI Indexed

Mathiyazhagan, K., Sengupta, S., & Poovazhagan, L. (2018). A decision making trial and evaluation laboratory approach to analyse the challenges to environmentally sustainable manufacturing in Indian automobile industry. Sustainable Production and Consumption (Elsevier), 16, 58-67. IF: 3.6 – SCI indexed

Li Yongbo & K. Mathiyazhagan (2018) “Application of decision making trial and evaluation laboratory to identify the influential indicators towards sustainable supply chain adoption in the auto components manufacturing sector”, Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier), 172, 2931-2941, (ABDC – A)IF : 7.246 – SCI Indexed

Bohtan, A., Vrat, P., & Mathiyazhagan, K. (2017). ANALYZING THE BARRIERS FOR IMPLEMENTING AN EFFECTIVE SUPPLY CHAIN FOR THE PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM IN INDIA: A TISM APPROACH. International Journal of Industrial Engineering, 24(6). Impact Factor 0.537 – SCI Indexed.

Wang, Z., Mathiyazhagan, K., Xu, Diabat, A., (2016) “A decision making trial and evaluation laboratory approach to analyze the barriers to Green supply chain management adoption in a food packaging company”, Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier), 117, 19-28, (ABDC – A) IF: 7.246- SCI Indexed

Mathiyazhagan, K., Kannan Govindan and Noorul Haq(2014) Pressure analysis for Green supply chain management implementation in Indian Industries Using Analytic Hierarchy Process. International Journal of Production Research (Taylor & Francis) 52(1), 188-202. (CNRS – 2) (ABDC – A) IF: 4.577 (ABDC – A)

Mathiyazhagan, K., Diabat, A., Al-Refaie, A., Xu, L. (2015). Application of analytical hierarchy process to evaluate pressures to implement green supply chain management. Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier), 107, 229-236. (ABDC – A) IF: 7.246– SCI Indexed

Peng Jia, A. Diabat and K. Mathiyazhagan (2015) “Analyzing the SSCM practices in the mining and mineral industry by ISM approach” Resources Policy (Elsevier) 46 (1), 76-85 –IF: 3.986 – SSCI Indexed

Book Chapter

Agarwal, V., & Mathiyazhagan, K. (2019). Evaluation of Motivational Factors for Sustainable Supplier Collaboration in Indian Industries. In Sustainability, Innovation and Procurement (pp. 61-77). CRC Press.

Surya Prakash, Satydev, Kaliyan Mathiyazhagan, Maheshwar Dwivedy, and Sanjiv Narula (2019) “Assessing the Drivers to Gain Sustainable Competitive Advantage An Interpretive Structural Modeling Approach” Sustainable Procurement in Supply Chain Operations (1st Edition), CRC Press (Taylor and Francis), 520 Pages – 87 B/W Illustrations, ISBN 9781138608153 – CAT# K388807

K. E. K. Vimal, P. Sasikumar, Kaliyan Mathiyazhagan, M. Nishal, and K. Sivakumar (2019) “Analyzing the Drivers of Sustainable Procurement Using the DEMATEL Approach”, Sustainable Procurement in Supply Chain Operations (1st Edition), CRC Press (Taylor and Francis), 520 Pages – 87 B/W Illustrations, ISBN 9781138608153 – CAT# K388807

Mathiyazhagan Kaliyan, Kannan Govindan, and Noorul Haq (2013) Barrier Analysis to Improve Green in Existing Supply Chain Management. Reverse Supply Chain Issues and Analysis, CRC Press (Taylor and Francis), 273–288. Print ISBN: 978-1-4398-9902.

Courses
  1. Lean and Agile Manufacturing
  2. Logistics & Distribution Management
  3. Supply chain management
  4. Production Planning & Control
  5. Business Research Method
  6. International Logistics management
Administrative Responsibilities
  • Chairperson – Research Centre
Others

Special issue guest editing

“Collaboration among supply chain channel partners for achieving sustainability development goals in low and middle income countries”, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management (Emerald) – (CNRS – 2; Q1; ABDC-A; IF: 4.7) https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/ijpdlm/collaboration-among-supply-chain-channel-partners-achieving-sustainability

“Strategies for Resilient and Sustainable Supply Chains in an Uncertain Business Environment”, Sustainable Production and Consumption (Elsevier)- (IF: 3.6 – Q1) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/sustainable-production-and-consumption/call-for-papers/strategies-for-resilient-and-sustainable-supply-chains

“Quantitative modellers’ role in post-COVID-19 public and private sector supply chains: Key lessons and future pathways”, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences The International Journal of Public Sector Decision-Making (Elsevier) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/socio-economic-planning-sciences/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-quantitative-modellers

“Resilience in Sustainable Supply Chain post-COVID19: Future Pathways”, International Journal of Logistics Management (Emerald) – (CNRS – 3; Q1; ABDC-A; IF: 3.325) https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/ijlm/resilience-sustainable-supply-chain-post-covid19-future-pathways

 “Green and Sustainable Practices in Supply Chains”, International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management (IJPQM), Inderscience publisher – Scopus indexed  – 2019 Vol. 28, No. 1 https://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticletoc.php?jcode=ijpqm&year=2019&vol=28&issue=1

Conference Proceeding Editor

Editor: Proceeding of FLAME 2020 – Advances in Industrial and Production Engineering: Select Proceedings of FLAME 2020, 5-7 August 2020, Amity University, Noida, India. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-33-4320-7 https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789813343191#aboutAuthors

Editor: Proceedings of ICAPIE 2019 – International Conference on Advanced Production and Industrial Engineering, ICAPIE 2019, ​20-21 December 2019 AT DITE, Okhla, Delhi, India. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-8542-5 https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811585418