2026 Christian Prins: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	64	1652	1572	22	21	193	14714

Overview

Christian Prins is affiliated with the University of Technology of Troyes in France. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with a notable focus on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. The scientist's work also addresses areas within Automotive Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, and Building and Construction.

Their research topics include:

Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
Transportation and Mobility Innovations
Optimization and Packing Problems
Reliability and Maintenance Optimization
Urban and Freight Transport Logistics
Facility Location and Emergency Management
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Christian Prins has contributed to multiple papers published in various academic venues. Recent works include:

"A column generation and a post optimization VNS heuristic for the vehicle routing problem with multiple time windows" (2020), Optimization Letters
"Solving the integrated multi-period scheduling routing problem for cleaning debris in the aftermath of disasters" (2022), European Journal of Operational Research
"A Two-echelon Vehicle Routing Problem with time-dependent travel times in the city logistics context" (2024), EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics
"A bi-objective stochastic approach for the stochastic CARP" (2022), arXiv (Cornell University)
"Stochastic Capacitated Arc Routing Problem" (2022), arXiv (Cornell University)

The frequent publication venues where their research appears are:

arXiv (Cornell University) - 3 publications
EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics - 1 publication
European Journal of Operational Research - 1 publication
Optimization Letters - 1 publication

Christian Prins collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including:

Gérard Fleury
Lacomme Philippe
Andres Gutierrez
Nacima Labadie
Guilherme C. Pena

Best Publications

A simple and effective evolutionary algorithm for the vehicle routing problem

Christian Prins

1492
Citations
A survey of recent research on location-routing problems

Caroline Prodhon;Christian Prins

847
Citations
A hybrid genetic algorithm with adaptive diversity management for a large class of vehicle routing problems with time-windows

Thibaut Vidal;Teodor Gabriel Crainic;Michel Gendreau;Christian Prins

656
Citations
Heuristics for multi-attribute vehicle routing problems: A survey and synthesis

Thibaut Vidal;Thibaut Vidal;Teodor Gabriel Crainic;Michel Gendreau;Christian Prins

523
Citations
A unified solution framework for multi-attribute vehicle routing problems ☆

Thibaut Vidal;Teodor Gabriel Crainic;Michel Gendreau;Christian Prins

493
Citations
Solving the Capacitated Location-Routing Problem by a Cooperative Lagrangean Relaxation-Granular Tabu Search Heuristic

Christian Prins;Caroline Prodhon;Angel Ruiz;Patrick Soriano

368
Citations
Competitive Memetic Algorithms for Arc Routing Problems

Philippe Lacomme;Christian Prins;Wahiba Ramdane-Cherif

367
Citations
A Branch-and-Cut method for the Capacitated Location-Routing Problem

José-Manuel Belenguer;Enrique Benavent;Christian Prins;Caroline Prodhon

326
Citations
Solving the capacitated location-routing problem by a GRASP complemented by a learning process and a path relinking

Christian Prins;Caroline Prodhon;Roberto Wolfler Calvo

303
Citations
An effective memetic algorithm for the cumulative capacitated vehicle routing problem

Sandra Ulrich Ngueveu;Christian Prins;Roberto Wolfler Calvo

294
Citations
A memetic algorithm with dynamic population management for an integrated production–distribution problem

Mourad Boudia;Christian Prins

281
Citations
Applications of Optimization with Xpress-MP

Christelle Guéret;Christian Prins;Marc Sevaux

279
Citations
A reactive GRASP and path relinking for a combined production-distribution problem

M. Boudia;M. A. O. Louly;C. Prins

278
Citations
A memetic algorithm and a tabu search for the multi-compartment vehicle routing problem

Abdellah El Fallahi;Christian Prins;Roberto Wolfler Calvo

262
Citations
Solving the two-echelon location routing problem by a GRASP reinforced by a learning process and path relinking

Viet-Phuong Nguyen;Christian Prins;Caroline Prodhon

256
Citations
Two memetic algorithms for heterogeneous fleet vehicle routing problems

Christian Prins

254
Citations
A GRASP×ELS approach for the capacitated location-routing problem

Christophe Duhamel;Philippe Lacomme;Christian Prins;Caroline Prodhon

241
Citations
Models for optimization and performance evaluation of biomass supply chains: An Operations Research perspective

Birome Holo Ba;Christian Prins;Caroline Prodhon

231
Citations
A GRASP × Evolutionary Local Search Hybrid for the Vehicle Routing Problem

Christian Prins

229
Citations
A Genetic Algorithm for the Capacitated Arc Routing Problem and Its Extensions

Philippe Lacomme;Christian Prins;Wahiba Ramdane-Chérif

215
Citations