2026 Erik Demeulemeester: 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	57	661	611	6	5	282	13664
Engineering and Technology	59	2307	2205	27	27	308	15843

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Belgium Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Belgium Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Erik Demeulemeester is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium, focusing primarily on research at the intersection of engineering and decision sciences. Their academic contributions span a variety of subfields, notably management science and operations research, industrial and manufacturing engineering, emergency medical services, control and systems engineering, and emergency medicine.

The main topics addressed in their work include resource-constrained project scheduling, scheduling and optimization algorithms, healthcare operations and scheduling optimization, construction project management and performance, manufacturing process and optimization, optimization and mathematical programming, as well as hospital admissions and outcomes.

Erik Demeulemeester has authored numerous publications, which have appeared frequently in several specialized venues. The most recurrent publication outlets for their work are:

SSRN Electronic Journal
European Journal of Operational Research
Computers & Operations Research
Computers & Industrial Engineering
International Journal of Production Research

Selected recent publications include:

"Operational Research: methods and applications" (2023) in the Journal of the Operational Research Society
"Operating room planning and scheduling for outpatients and inpatients: A review and future research" (2021) in Operations Research for Health Care
"Simulation optimization in healthcare resource planning: A literature review" (2022) in IISE Transactions
"The distributionally robust machine scheduling problem with job selection and sequence-dependent setup times" (2020) in Computers & Operations Research
"Integrated resource-constrained project scheduling and material ordering problem considering storage space allocation" (2023) in Computers & Industrial Engineering

Their collaborative network includes frequent coauthors such as Jingwen Zhang, Lien Wang, Lauri Saarinen, Liangwei Chen, and Zhi Chen, with whom they have jointly published multiple works.

Best Publications

Operating room planning and scheduling: A literature review

Brecht Cardoen;Erik Demeulemeester;Jeroen Beliën;Jeroen Beliën

1569
Citations
Personnel scheduling: A literature review

Jorne Van den Bergh;Jorne Van den Bergh;Jeroen Beliën;Jeroen Beliën;Philippe De Bruecker;Philippe De Bruecker;Erik Demeulemeester

945
Citations
Project Scheduling: A Research Handbook

Erik L. Demeulemeester;Willy S. Herroelen

931
Citations
Resource-constrained project scheduling: a survey of recent developments

Willy Herroelen;Bert De Reyck;Erik Demeulemeester

825
Citations
A branch-and-bound procedure for the multiple resource-constrained project scheduling problem

Erik Demeulemeester;Willy Herroelen

812
Citations
Building cyclic master surgery schedules with leveled resulting bed occupancy

Jeroen Beliën;Erik Demeulemeester

439
Citations
New Benchmark Results for the Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem

Erik L. Demeulemeester;Willy S. Herroelen

353
Citations
RanGen: A Random Network Generator for Activity-on-the-Node Networks

Erik Demeulemeester;Mario Vanhoucke;Willy Herroelen

337
Citations
Workforce planning incorporating skills: State of the art

Philippe De Bruecker;Jorne Van den Bergh;Jeroen Beliën;Erik Demeulemeester

334
Citations
The use of buffers in project management: The trade-off between stability and makespan

Stijn Van de Vonder;Erik Demeulemeester;Willy Herroelen;Roel Leus

326
Citations
Proactive heuristic procedures for robust project scheduling: An experimental analysis

Stijn Van de Vonder;Erik Demeulemeester;Willy Herroelen

289
Citations
Proactive and reactive strategies for resource-constrained project scheduling with uncertain resource availabilities

Olivier Lambrechts;Erik Demeulemeester;Willy Herroelen

265
Citations
A branch-and-price approach for integrating nurse and surgery scheduling

Jeroen Beliën;Erik Demeulemeester

260
Citations
A classification scheme for project scheduling

Willy Herroelen;Erik Demeulemeester;Bert De Reyck

251
Citations
Critical Chain Project Scheduling: Do Not Oversimplify:

Willy Herroelen;Roel Leus;Erik Demeulemeester

247
Citations
Project network models with discounted cash flows a guided tour through recent developments

Willy S. Herroelen;Patrick Van Dommelen;Erik L. Demeulemeester

244
Citations
Optimizing a multiple objective surgical case sequencing problem

Brecht Cardoen;Erik Demeulemeester;Jeroen Beliën;Jeroen Beliën

229
Citations
A decision support system for cyclic master surgery scheduling with multiple objectives

Jeroen Beliën;Erik Demeulemeester;Brecht Cardoen

221
Citations
Optimal procedures for the discrete time/cost trade-off problem in project networks

Erik L. Demeulemeester;Willy S. Herroelen;Salah E. Elmaghraby

219
Citations
The trade-off between stability and makespan in resource-constrained project scheduling

S. Van De Vonder;E. Demeulemeester;W. Herroelen;R. Leus

216
Citations
Sequencing surgical cases in a day-care environment: An exact branch-and-price approach

Brecht Cardoen;Erik Demeulemeester;Jeroen Beliën

205
Citations
Minimizing resource availability costs in time-limited project networks

Erik Demeulemeester

182
Citations
A classification of predictive-reactive project scheduling procedures

Stijn Vonder;Erik Demeulemeester;Willy Herroelen

163
Citations
Resource-constrained project scheduling - A survey of recent developments

W Herroelen;B De Reyck;E Demeulemeester

3
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Willy Herroelen KU Leuven

Mario Vanhoucke Ghent University

Roel Leus KU Leuven

Rainer Kolisch Technical University of Munich

Xiao Qin Auburn University

Salah E. Elmaghraby North Carolina State University

Behrooz Karimi Amirkabir University of Technology

Ahti Salo Aalto University

Jan Weglarz Poznań University of Technology

Jan V. Colpaert Hasselt University

External Links

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