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RAIRO - Operations Research
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RAIRO - Operations Research

0399-0559

Published by: EDP Sciences

https://www.rairo-ro.org/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Mathematics 124 41 96 16
Business and Management 234 17 48 14
Engineering and Technology 448 41 116 18
Computer Science 468 29 45 13

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 103
Documents by Best Scientists*: 195
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 39
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.437
Impact Factor: 2.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Rairo-operations Research?

Rairo-operations Research focuses largely on the fields of Mathematical optimization, Operations research, Combinatorics, Algorithm and Supply chain. Topics in Mathematical optimization explored in Rairo-operations Research were investigated in conjunction with research in Scheduling (computing), Job shop scheduling and Set (abstract data type). The journal focuses on Combinatorics research which is adjacent to topics in Discrete mathematics.

The concepts on Supply chain presented in it can also apply to other research fields, including Profit (economics), Industrial organization and Stackelberg competition.

  • Mathematical optimization (27.71%)
  • Operations research (12.06%)
  • Combinatorics (11.41%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Parametric integer programming (363 citations)
  • A heuristic column generation method for the heterogeneous fleet VRP (289 citations)
  • Determining lot sizes and resource requirements: A review (216 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Rairo-operations Research:

The most cited publications mostly deal with topics like Mathematical optimization, Operations research, Combinatorics, Humanities and Algorithm. The journal publications explore issues in Mathematical optimization which can be linked to other research areas like Lead time and Vehicle routing problem. The most cited papers with studies in Operations research featured incorporate elements of Supply chain, Preventive maintenance, Production planning and Order (business).

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

  • Mathematical optimization
  • Statistics
  • Artificial intelligence

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The primary areas of discussion in Rairo-operations Research are Mathematical optimization, Supply chain, Operations research, Industrial organization and Production (economics). While work presented in Rairo-operations Research provided substantial information on Mathematical optimization, it also covered topics in Fuzzy logic, Set (abstract data type) and Job shop scheduling. The journal focused on Set (abstract data type) research but expanded to cover Data envelopment analysis.

The Job shop scheduling study featured in Rairo-operations Research draws parallels with the field of Scheduling (production processes). Rairo-operations Research explores issues in Supply chain which can be linked to other research areas like Stackelberg competition, Supply and demand and Profit (economics). Issues in Industrial organization were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Incentive and Game theory.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • A bi-objective production-distribution problem in a supply chain network under grey flexible conditions (17 citations)
  • Preservation technology investment, trade credit and partial backordering model for a non-instantaneous deteriorating inventory (16 citations)
  • Different linear and non-linear form of trapezoidal neutrosophic numbers, de-neutrosophication techniques and its application in time-cost optimization technique, sequencing problem (8 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 Rairo-operations Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Nelson Maculan (17 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • Biswajit Sarkar (17 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Alain Quilliot (15 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Shib Sankar Sana (13 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition,
  • Alain Billionnet (10 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 Rairo-operations Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Islamic Azad University (52 papers) published 20 papers at the last edition, 15 more than at the previous edition,
  • Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (30 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 7 more than at the previous edition,
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (25 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Tehran (21 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Iran University of Science and Technology (19 papers) published 10 papers at the last edition, 8 more than 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, 13.04% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 18.93% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 9.29% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 18.21% of all publications and 53.57% 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

  • Manufacturing/remanufacturing based supply chain management under advertisements and carbon emissions process

    (2021)
    94 Citations
  • Intelligent servicing strategy for an online-to-offline (O2O) supply chain under demand variability and controllable lead time

    (2022)
    85 Citations
  • Technology license sharing strategy for remanufacturing industries under a closed-loop supply chain management bonding

    (2022)
    76 Citations
  • Joint replenishment strategy for deteriorating multi-item through multi-echelon supply chain model with imperfect production under imprecise and inflationary environment

    (2022)
    71 Citations
  • Controlling defective items in a complex multi-phase manufacturing system

    (2022)
    70 Citations

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