2026 Barrett W. Thomas: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	35	11818	11482	4826	4618	80	4195

Barrett W. Thomas publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barrett W. Thomas sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 80 publications — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Barrett W. Thomas D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barrett W. Thomas sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Barrett W. Thomas is affiliated with the University of Iowa in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, with a focus on several subfields such as automotive engineering, building and construction, industrial and manufacturing engineering, transportation, and management information systems.

Their research spans a variety of topics primarily related to transportation and logistics. Key topics include:

Transportation and Mobility Innovations
Urban and Freight Transport Logistics
Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
Transportation Planning and Optimization
Smart Parking Systems Research
Supply Chain and Inventory Management
Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism

Barrett W. Thomas has published in a number of venues, with a significant number of publications in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Transportation Science
Computers & Operations Research
European Journal of Operational Research
EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics

Among recent research papers, notable works include:

"The Restaurant Meal Delivery Problem: Dynamic Pickup and Delivery with Deadlines and Random Ready Times" (2020) published in Transportation Science
"On modeling stochastic dynamic vehicle routing problems" (2020) published in EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics
"Opportunities for reinforcement learning in stochastic dynamic vehicle routing" (2022) published in Computers & Operations Research
"The Value of Autonomous Vehicles for Last-Mile Deliveries in Urban Environments" (2021) published in Management Science
"Building Trust in Home Services-Stochastic Team-Orienteering with Consistency Constraints" (2020) published in Transportation Science

Their frequent coauthors include:

Marlin W. Ulmer
Ann Melissa Campbell
Sara M. Reed
Florentin D. Hildebrandt
Sadjad Anzabi Zadeh

Best Publications

The Same-Day Delivery Problem for Online Purchases

Stacy A. Voccia;Ann Melissa Campbell;Barrett W. Thomas

279
Citations
The stochastic p-hub center problem with service-level constraints

Thaddeus Sim;Timothy J. Lowe;Barrett W. Thomas

244
Citations
Same-day delivery with heterogeneous fleets of drones and vehicles

Marlin W. Ulmer;Barrett W. Thomas

231
Citations
The Restaurant Meal Delivery Problem: Dynamic Pickup and Delivery with Deadlines and Random Ready Times

Marlin W. Ulmer;Barrett W. Thomas;Ann Melissa Campbell;Nicholas Woyak

207
Citations
The orienteering problem with stochastic travel and service times

Ann Melissa Campbell;Michel Gendreau;Barrett W. Thomas

181
Citations
A Compressed-Annealing Heuristic for the Traveling Salesman Problem with Time Windows

Jeffrey W. Ohlmann;Barrett W. Thomas

178
Citations
Vehicle routing to minimize time-dependent emissions in urban areas

Jan Fabian Ehmke;Ann Melissa Campbell;Barrett W. Thomas

170
Citations
Waiting Strategies for Anticipating Service Requests from Known Customer Locations

Barrett W. Thomas

151
Citations
Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem with Deadlines

Ann M. Campbell;Barrett W. Thomas

144
Citations
Anticipatory Route Selection

Barrett W. Thomas;Chelsea C. White

133
Citations
Rollout Policies for Dynamic Solutions to the Multivehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demand and Duration Limits

Justin C. Goodson;Jeffrey W. Ohlmann;Barrett W. Thomas

128
Citations
On modeling stochastic dynamic vehicle routing problems

Marlin W. Ulmer;Justin C. Goodson;Dirk C. Mattfeld;Barrett W. Thomas

126
Citations
Preemptive depot returns for dynamic same-day delivery

Marlin W. Ulmer;Barrett W. Thomas;Dirk C. Mattfeld

113
Citations
Opportunities for reinforcement learning in stochastic dynamic vehicle routing

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110
Citations
Edge intersection graphs of single bend paths on a grid

Martin Charles Golumbic;Marina Lipshteyn;Michal Stern

98
Citations
Cyclic-order neighborhoods with application to the vehicle routing problem with stochastic demand

Justin C. Goodson;Jeffrey W. Ohlmann;Barrett W. Thomas

95
Citations
A rollout algorithm framework for heuristic solutions to finite-horizon stochastic dynamic programs

Justin C. Goodson;Barrett W. Thomas;Jeffrey W. Ohlmann

94
Citations
Deep Q-learning for same-day delivery with vehicles and drones

Xinwei Chen;Marlin W. Ulmer;Barrett W. Thomas

93
Citations
The dynamic shortest path problem with anticipation

Barrett W. Thomas;Chelsea C. White

91
Citations
A Comparison of Anticipatory Algorithms for the Dynamic and Stochastic Traveling Salesman Problem

Gianpaolo Ghiani;Emanuele Manni;Barrett W. Thomas

91
Citations
The Value of Autonomous Vehicles for Last-Mile Deliveries in Urban Environments

Sara Reed;Ann Melissa Campbell;Barrett W. Thomas

90
Citations
Data-driven approaches for emissions-minimized paths in urban areas

Jan Fabian Ehmke;Ann Melissa Campbell;Barrett W. Thomas

79
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ann Melissa Campbell University of Iowa

Chelsea C. White Georgia Institute of Technology

Christian Blum Spanish National Research Council

Dirk C. Mattfeld Technische Universität Braunschweig

Stein W. Wallace Norwegian School of Economics

Arie Tamir Tel Aviv University

Michel Gendreau Polytechnique Montréal

Timothy J. Lowe University of Iowa

Manuel López-Ibáñez University of Manchester

Gianpaolo Ghiani University of Salento

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