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Operations Research Letters
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Operations Research Letters

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Mathematics 228 59 101 11
Engineering and Technology 755 30 44 11

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 111
Documents by Best Scientists*: 159
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 8
SCIMAGO H-index: 85
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.437
Impact Factor: N/A

Overview

Top Research Topics at Operations Research Letters?

Operations Research Letters mainly tackles studies in Mathematical optimization, Surgery, Combinatorics, Discrete mathematics and Pathology. Topics in Mathematical optimization explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Algorithm and Scheduling (computing), Job shop scheduling. Operations Research Letters investigates Surgery research which frequently intersects with Anesthesia.

It centers on topics in Combinatorics, with a focus on Time complexity. Research on Pathology addressed in it frequently intersections with the field of Anatomy.

  • Mathematical optimization (22.02%)
  • Surgery (12.72%)
  • Combinatorics (11.98%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Robust solutions of uncertain linear programs (1429 citations)
  • A probabilistic heuristic for a computationally difficult set covering problem (806 citations)
  • Mirror descent and nonlinear projected subgradient methods for convex optimization (802 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Operations Research Letters:

The journal publications investigate studies in Mathematical optimization, Combinatorics, Algorithm, Discrete mathematics and Scheduling (computing). The published articles explore research in Mathematical optimization and the adjacent study of Job shop scheduling. While the journal papers focused on Combinatorics, they were also able to explore topics like Upper and lower bounds and Travelling salesman problem.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Internal medicine
  • Surgery
  • Disease

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The primary areas of discussion in the journal are Mathematical optimization, Applied mathematics, Surgery, Internal medicine and Combinatorics. The work on Mathematical optimization addressed in it expands to the thematically related Markov decision process. The Applied mathematics works featured in Operations Research Letters incorporate elements from Queue and Nonlinear system.

Complication and Airway are all aspects of Surgery research featured in the journal. The journal links adjacent topics like Internal medicine with Gastroenterology.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Energy and reserve dispatch with distributionally robust joint chance constraints (15 citations)
  • A polyhedral approach to bisubmodular function minimization (5 citations)
  • A revised approach for risk-averse multi-armed bandits under CVaR criterion (4 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Operations Research Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Gerhard J. Woeginger (47 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Alfio Ferlito (43 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Wolf J. Mann (30 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ward Whitt (27 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Matti Anniko (27 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Operations Research Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (90 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition,
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (74 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Columbia University (73 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Eindhoven University of Technology (73 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Tel Aviv University (70 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 5.11% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 10.31% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 7.17% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 12.11% of all publications and 70.40% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • On approximations of data-driven chance constrained programs over Wasserstein balls

    (2022)
    87 Citations
  • Energy and reserve dispatch with distributionally robust joint chance constraints

    Christos Ordoudis;Viet Anh Nguyen;Daniel Kuhn;Pierre Pinson

    (2021)
    71 Citations
  • A historical note on the complexity of scheduling problems

    (2022)
    44 Citations
  • Best arm identification in generalized linear bandits

    Abbas Kazerouni;Lawrence M. Wein

    (2021)
    29 Citations
  • Guidelines for the Computational Testing of Machine Learning approaches to Vehicle Routing Problems

    (2021)
    25 Citations
  • A note on the lifted Miller–Tucker–Zemlin subtour elimination constraints for routing problems with time windows

    Yuan Yuan;Diego Cattaruzza;Maxime Ogier;Frédéric Semet

    (2020)
    20 Citations

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