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Optimization Letters
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Optimization Letters

1862-4472

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/11590

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Mathematics 84 69 113 19
Engineering and Technology 690 41 56 12

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 128
Documents by Best Scientists*: 176
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 6
SCIMAGO H-index: 55
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.66
Impact Factor: 1.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Optimization Letters?

Optimization Letters primarily tackles Computational intelligence, Mathematical optimization, Applied mathematics, Combinatorics and Discrete mathematics. While Optimization Letters focused on Computational intelligence, it was also able to explore topics like Convergence (routing), Set (abstract data type), Function (mathematics), Algorithm and Scheduling (computing). The Mathematical optimization study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Job shop scheduling.

The studies tackled, which mainly focus on Applied mathematics, apply to Mathematical analysis as well.

  • Computational intelligence (54.08%)
  • Mathematical optimization (43.27%)
  • Applied mathematics (14.42%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The vehicle routing problem with drones: several worst-case results (178 citations)
  • TTT plots: a perl program to create time-to-target plots (155 citations)
  • A generalized Newton method for absolute value equations (150 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Optimization Letters:

The published papers investigate areas of study like Mathematical optimization, Computational intelligence, Algorithm, Discrete mathematics and Mathematical analysis. The works on Mathematical optimization tackled in the published papers bring together disciplines like Nonlinear programming, Set (abstract data type) and Benchmark (computing). In addition to Computational intelligence research, the journal papers aim to explore topics under Global optimization, Convergence (routing), Vehicle routing problem, Integer programming and Operations research.

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

  • Mathematical optimization
  • Statistics
  • Mathematical analysis

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Optimization Letters investigates areas of study like Computational intelligence, Mathematical optimization, Applied mathematics, Set (abstract data type) and Optimization problem. While Computational intelligence is the focus of the journal, it also provided insights into the studies of Minification, Constraint (information theory), Algorithm, Job shop scheduling and Operations research. Mathematical optimization research featured in Optimization Letters incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Path (graph theory) and Integer (computer science).

The journal explores issues in Applied mathematics which can be linked to other research areas like Convergence (routing), Rate of convergence, Solution set, Hilbert space and Lipschitz continuity. The Convergence (routing) works featured in it incorporate elements from Variational inequality and Function (mathematics).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Drone-assisted deliveries: new formulations for the flying sidekick traveling salesman problem (21 citations)
  • On the convergence rate of the Halpern-iteration (16 citations)
  • New inertial relaxed method for solving split feasibilities (13 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 Optimization Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Panos M. Pardalos (43 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • S. J. Li (21 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Nenad Mladenović (14 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Weili Wu (13 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Kok Lay Teo (13 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous 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 Optimization Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Florida (61 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Chongqing University (28 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University (27 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • National Research University – Higher School of Economics (25 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 6 more than at the previous edition,
  • Curtin University (21 papers) absent at the last 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, 7.94% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 12.50% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 7.76% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 12.07% of all publications and 67.67% 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

  • Distributionally robust optimization with decision dependent ambiguity sets

    Fengqiao Luo;Sanjay Mehrotra

    (2020)
    89 Citations
  • Drone-assisted deliveries: new formulations for the flying sidekick traveling salesman problem

    Mauro Dell’Amico;Roberto Montemanni;Stefano Novellani

    (2021)
    82 Citations
  • New inertial relaxed method for solving split feasibilities

    Yekini Shehu;Aviv Gibali

    (2021)
    77 Citations
  • The split feasibility problem with multiple output sets in Hilbert spaces

    Simeon Reich;Minh Tuyen Truong;Thi Ngoc Ha Mai

    (2020)
    76 Citations
  • Self adaptive inertial subgradient extragradient algorithms for solving pseudomonotone variational inequality problems

    Duong Viet Thong;Dang Van Hieu;Themistocles M. Rassias

    (2020)
    72 Citations
  • A strong convergence theorem for Tseng’s extragradient method for solving variational inequality problems

    Duong Viet Thong;Yeol Je Cho;Yeol Je Cho

    (2020)
    54 Citations
  • Disciplined quasiconvex programming

    Akshay Agrawal;Stephen P. Boyd

    (2020)
    41 Citations
  • Proximal point algorithm for inclusion problems in Hadamard manifolds with applications

    Qamrul Hasan Ansari;Qamrul Hasan Ansari;Feeroz Babu

    (2021)
    34 Citations
  • Personnel scheduling during Covid-19 pandemic.

    Giorgio Zucchi;Manuel Iori;Anand Subramanian

    (2021)
    30 Citations

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