Professor Xiong's research focuses on sustainable and technological issues within global supply chains, and he has published in leading international journals such as the European Journal of Operational Research, Nature Communications, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Business Research, International Journal of Production Economics, and the Journal of the Operational Research Society, among others. He has served as a guest editor for the International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Technovation, and the International Journal of Technology Management. According to Elsevier, from 2014-2020, he ranks third in the UK for his research outputs in Closed-Loop Supply Chain and Remanufacturing, and he is the top-cited researcher in the UK in this category. One of his publications in Nature Communications has achieved an Altmetrics score of almost 2000, placing it among the most significant scientific achievements in 2021 and including it in the Timeline of Computing for that year.