2026 Andrés Weintraub: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	43	1431	1338	1	1	125	6399
Mathematics	41	1948	1707	3	3	102	5568
Engineering and Technology	45	5596	5398	4	4	136	6715

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Mathematics in Chile Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Chile Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Mathematics in Chile Leader Award
2005 - Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Overview

Andrés Weintraub is affiliated with the University of Chile in Chile and focuses primarily on Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Mechanics of Materials, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's research topics include:

Fire effects on ecosystems
Species Distribution and Climate Change
Forest Management and Policy
Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Landslides and related hazards

Weintraub has contributed articles to several publication venues, with frequent appearances in:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Environmental Management
arXiv (Cornell University)
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
International Transactions in Operational Research

Notable recent papers include:

"Evidence-based mapping of the wildland-urban interface to better identify human communities threatened by wildfires," 2020, Environmental Research Letters
"Coalition formation in collaborative production and transportation with competing firms," 2020, European Journal of Operational Research
"Exploring the multidimensional effects of human activity and land cover on fire occurrence for territorial planning," 2021, Journal of Environmental Management
"Cell2Fire: A Cell-Based Forest Fire Growth Model to Support Strategic Landscape Management Planning," 2021, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
"A firebreak placement model for optimizing biodiversity protection at landscape scale," 2023, Journal of Environmental Management

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

Jaime Carrasco
Cristóbal Pais
Fulgencio Lisón
Jordi García-Gonzalo
Alejandro Miranda

Andrés Weintraub was recognized as a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in 2005.

Best Publications

A Review of Operations Research in Mine Planning

Alexandra M. Newman;Enrique Rubio;Rodrigo Caro;Andrés Weintraub

521
Citations
Using Operational Research for Supply Chain Planning in the Forest Products Industry

Sophie D'Amours;Mikael Rönnqvist;Andres Weintraub

342
Citations
Forest management challenges for operational researchers

David L. Martell;Eldon A. Gunn;Andres Weintraub

296
Citations
Operations Research Models and the Management of Agricultural and Forestry Resources: A Review and Comparison

Andrés Weintraub;Carlos Romero

248
Citations
School redistricting: embedding GIS tools with integer programming

Felipe Caro;Takeshi Shirabe;Monique Guignard;Andrés Weintraub

222
Citations
Harvest Scheduling Subject to Maximum Area Restrictions: Exploring Exact Approaches

Marcos Goycoolea;Alan T. Murray;Francisco Barahona;Rafael Epstein

192
Citations
A Truck Scheduling System Improves Efficiency in the Forest Industries

Andres Weintraub;Rafael Epstein;Ramiro Morales;Jorge Seron

166
Citations
Operations Research challenges in forestry: 33 open problems

Mikael Rönnqvist;Mikael Rönnqvist;Sophie D'Amours;Andrés Weintraub;Alejandro Jofré

162
Citations
Imposing connectivity constraints in forest planning models

Rodolfo Carvajal;Miguel Constantino;Marcos Goycoolea;Juan Pablo Vielma

155
Citations
Use of Or Systems in the Chilean Forest Industries

Rafael Epstein;Ramiro Morales;Jorge Seron;Andres Weintraub

153
Citations
A Hierarchical Approach to Forest Planning

Andrés Weintraub;Alejandro Cholaky

147
Citations
A column generation algorithm for solving general forest planning problems with adjacency constraints

Andrés Weintraub;Francisco Barahona;Rafael Epstein

142
Citations
Operations research in the natural resource industry

Trond Bjørndal;Ines Herrero;Alexandra M. Newman;Carlos Romero

137
Citations
Operational research models and the management of fisheries and aquaculture: A review

Trond Bjørndal;Daniel E Lane;Andrés Weintraub

130
Citations
An emergency vehicle dispatching system for an electric utility in Chile

Andrés Weintraub;Julio Aboud;Claudio Fernández;Gilbert Laporte

129
Citations
A combined transportation and scheduling problem

Luisa Equi;Giorgio Gallo;Silvia Marziale;Andres Weintraub

127
Citations
A Problem of Forest Harvesting and Road Building Solved Through Model Strengthening and Lagrangean Relaxation

Nicolas Andalaft;Pablo Andalaft;Monique Guignard;Adrian Magendzo

125
Citations
Optimizing Long-Term Production Plans in Underground and Open-Pit Copper Mines

Rafael Epstein;Marcel Goic;Andrés Weintraub;Jaime Catalán

124
Citations
A Forest Management Planning Model Integrating Silvicultural and Transportation Activities

Andres Weintraub;Daniel Navon

124
Citations
A survey on obstacles and difficulties of practical implementation of horizontal collaboration in logistics

Franco Basso;Sophie D'Amours;Mikael Rönnqvist;Andrés Weintraub

110
Citations
Scheduling the Chilean Soccer League by Integer Programming

Guillermo Durán;Mario Guajardo;Jaime Miranda;Denis Sauré

108
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Monique Guignard University of Pennsylvania

Mikael Rönnqvist Université Laval

David L. Martell University of Toronto

Jordi Garcia-Gonzalo Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya

Laureano F. Escudero King Juan Carlos University

Carlos Romero Technical University of Madrid

Sophie D'Amours Université Laval

Celso C. Ribeiro Fluminense Federal University

Roger J.-B. Wets University of California, Davis

David L. Woodruff University of California, Davis

External Links

Personal website of Andrés Weintraub Google Scholar page

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