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Erik Demeulemeester

Erik Demeulemeester

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Business and Management
Belgium
2026

D-Index & Metrics

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 2309 2205 27 27 308 15843

Erik Demeulemeester publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Erik Demeulemeester between 1989 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Erik Demeulemeester published across 37 years, from 1989 to 2025, averaging 9.4 papers a year. Output peaked at 30 publications in 2015. 22 of the 349 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1989 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 30. Peak 30 publications in 2015. 1989: 2 publications 1990: 1 publication 1991: 0 publications 1992: 3 publications 1993: 1 publication 1994: 3 publications 1995: 1 publication 1996: 8 publications 1997: 6 publications 1998: 6 publications 1999: 6 publications 2000: 8 publications 2001: 7 publications 2002: 5 publications 2003: 5 publications 2004: 12 publications 2005: 17 publications 2006: 15 publications 2007: 27 publications 2008: 10 publications 2009: 13 publications 2010: 18 publications 2011: 12 publications 2012: 15 publications 2013: 25 publications 2014: 16 publications 2015: 30 publications 2016: 19 publications 2017: 5 publications 2018: 3 publications 2019: 9 publications 2020: 5 publications 2021: 4 publications 2022: 5 publications 2023: 5 publications 2024: 9 publications 2025: 13 publications
1989 2025

349 publications in total across all disciplines

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Erik Demeulemeester: publications per year, 1989 to 2025
Year Publications
1989 2
1990 1
1991 0
1992 3
1993 1
1994 3
1995 1
1996 8
1997 6
1998 6
1999 6
2000 8
2001 7
2002 5
2003 5
2004 12
2005 17
2006 15
2007 27
2008 10
2009 13
2010 18
2011 12
2012 15
2013 25
2014 16
2015 30
2016 19
2017 5
2018 3
2019 9
2020 5
2021 4
2022 5
2023 5
2024 9
2025 13
Total 349
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Erik Demeulemeester publications per year - data summary

  • Erik Demeulemeester, a Business and Management scholar from KU Leuven, has 349 publications recorded across 37 years, from 1989 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1989 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive year is 2015, with 30 publications.
  • The least productive years with any output are 1990, 1993 and 1995, with 1 publication each.
  • 1 of the 37 years in the span carries no publications at all (1991).
  • The rate of publication averages 9.4 papers per year over the whole span, or 9.7 per year counting only the 36 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 36 publications, 10% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1989-2001: 52 publications (4.0 per year); 2002-2014: 190 publications (14.6 per year); 2015-2025: 107 publications (9.7 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Erik Demeulemeester publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Erik Demeulemeester sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
25 50 75 100
Bar chart with 82 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 35–39 to 436+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 122. Most scientists, 122, have 95–99 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 280–284 publications, is where this scientist sits. 35–39 publications: 2 scientists 40–44 publications: 2 scientists 45–49 publications: 5 scientists 50–54 publications: 20 scientists 55–59 publications: 39 scientists 60–64 publications: 66 scientists 65–69 publications: 52 scientists 70–74 publications: 80 scientists 75–79 publications: 83 scientists 80–84 publications: 116 scientists 85–89 publications: 94 scientists 90–94 publications: 111 scientists 95–99 publications: 122 scientists 100–104 publications: 104 scientists 105–109 publications: 113 scientists 110–114 publications: 96 scientists 115–119 publications: 97 scientists 120–124 publications: 112 scientists 125–129 publications: 93 scientists 130–134 publications: 79 scientists 135–139 publications: 69 scientists 140–144 publications: 80 scientists 145–149 publications: 81 scientists 150–154 publications: 85 scientists 155–159 publications: 50 scientists 160–164 publications: 74 scientists 165–169 publications: 61 scientists 170–174 publications: 40 scientists 175–179 publications: 44 scientists 180–184 publications: 47 scientists 185–189 publications: 59 scientists 190–194 publications: 35 scientists 195–199 publications: 37 scientists 200–204 publications: 49 scientists 205–209 publications: 48 scientists 210–214 publications: 34 scientists 215–219 publications: 31 scientists 220–224 publications: 37 scientists 225–229 publications: 34 scientists 230–234 publications: 25 scientists 235–239 publications: 28 scientists 240–244 publications: 34 scientists 245–249 publications: 28 scientists 250–254 publications: 23 scientists 255–259 publications: 22 scientists 260–264 publications: 11 scientists 265–269 publications: 16 scientists 270–274 publications: 23 scientists 275–279 publications: 12 scientists 280–284 publications: 16 scientists 285–289 publications: 10 scientists 290–294 publications: 12 scientists 295–299 publications: 12 scientists 300–304 publications: 8 scientists 305–309 publications: 13 scientists 310–314 publications: 13 scientists 315–319 publications: 6 scientists 320–324 publications: 10 scientists 325–329 publications: 9 scientists 330–334 publications: 7 scientists 335–339 publications: 10 scientists 340–344 publications: 10 scientists 345–349 publications: 7 scientists 350–354 publications: 4 scientists 355–359 publications: 10 scientists 360–364 publications: 3 scientists 365–369 publications: 7 scientists 370–374 publications: 2 scientists 375–379 publications: 8 scientists 380–384 publications: 4 scientists 385–389 publications: 5 scientists 390–394 publications: 5 scientists 395–399 publications: 2 scientists 400–404 publications: 2 scientists 405–409 publications: 4 scientists 410–414 publications: 3 scientists 415–419 publications: 2 scientists 420–424 publications: 5 scientists 425–429 publications: 3 scientists 430–434 publications: 1 scientist 435 publications: 1 scientist 436+ publications: 100 scientists
35–39 publications 436+

This scientist: 282 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

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Number of Business and Management scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,017 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
35–39 2
40–44 2
45–49 5
50–54 20
55–59 39
60–64 66
65–69 52
70–74 80
75–79 83
80–84 116
85–89 94
90–94 111
95–99 122
100–104 104
105–109 113
110–114 96
115–119 97
120–124 112
125–129 93
130–134 79
135–139 69
140–144 80
145–149 81
150–154 85
155–159 50
160–164 74
165–169 61
170–174 40
175–179 44
180–184 47
185–189 59
190–194 35
195–199 37
200–204 49
205–209 48
210–214 34
215–219 31
220–224 37
225–229 34
230–234 25
235–239 28
240–244 34
245–249 28
250–254 23
255–259 22
260–264 11
265–269 16
270–274 23
275–279 12
280–284 16 282
285–289 10
290–294 12
295–299 12
300–304 8
305–309 13
310–314 13
315–319 6
320–324 10
325–329 9
330–334 7
335–339 10
340–344 10
345–349 7
350–354 4
355–359 10
360–364 3
365–369 7
370–374 2
375–379 8
380–384 4
385–389 5
390–394 5
395–399 2
400–404 2
405–409 4
410–414 3
415–419 2
420–424 5
425–429 3
430–434 1
435 1
436+ 100
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Erik Demeulemeester publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 3,017 Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 82 ranges running from 35–39 to 436+ publications.
  • Erik Demeulemeester, a Business and Management scholar from KU Leuven, records 282 publications - the 90th percentile of the discipline.
  • 90% of ranked Business and Management scientists score the same or lower than Erik Demeulemeester, and about 10% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 135–139 publications range, and Erik Demeulemeester ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 95–99 publications, holding 122 scientists (4% of the field).
  • 52% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 135–139 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 436 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (3% of the field).

Erik Demeulemeester D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Erik Demeulemeester sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 60 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 89+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 171. Most scientists, 171, have 32 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 57 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 156 scientists 31 D-Index: 159 scientists 32 D-Index: 171 scientists 33 D-Index: 161 scientists 34 D-Index: 135 scientists 35 D-Index: 124 scientists 36 D-Index: 114 scientists 37 D-Index: 111 scientists 38 D-Index: 103 scientists 39 D-Index: 89 scientists 40 D-Index: 81 scientists 41 D-Index: 97 scientists 42 D-Index: 80 scientists 43 D-Index: 69 scientists 44 D-Index: 68 scientists 45 D-Index: 63 scientists 46 D-Index: 54 scientists 47 D-Index: 69 scientists 48 D-Index: 50 scientists 49 D-Index: 58 scientists 50 D-Index: 54 scientists 51 D-Index: 62 scientists 52 D-Index: 54 scientists 53 D-Index: 43 scientists 54 D-Index: 49 scientists 55 D-Index: 35 scientists 56 D-Index: 40 scientists 57 D-Index: 44 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 29 scientists 60 D-Index: 48 scientists 61 D-Index: 32 scientists 62 D-Index: 30 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 22 scientists 65 D-Index: 19 scientists 66 D-Index: 20 scientists 67 D-Index: 18 scientists 68 D-Index: 17 scientists 69 D-Index: 21 scientists 70 D-Index: 20 scientists 71 D-Index: 19 scientists 72 D-Index: 14 scientists 73 D-Index: 10 scientists 74 D-Index: 16 scientists 75 D-Index: 24 scientists 76 D-Index: 13 scientists 77 D-Index: 19 scientists 78 D-Index: 8 scientists 79 D-Index: 6 scientists 80 D-Index: 4 scientists 81 D-Index: 12 scientists 82 D-Index: 7 scientists 83 D-Index: 7 scientists 84 D-Index: 6 scientists 85 D-Index: 10 scientists 86 D-Index: 4 scientists 87 D-Index: 11 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89+ D-Index: 96 scientists
30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

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Number of Business and Management scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,017 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 156
31 159
32 171
33 161
34 135
35 124
36 114
37 111
38 103
39 89
40 81
41 97
42 80
43 69
44 68
45 63
46 54
47 69
48 50
49 58
50 54
51 62
52 54
53 43
54 49
55 35
56 40
57 44 57
58 34
59 29
60 48
61 32
62 30
63 22
64 22
65 19
66 20
67 18
68 17
69 21
70 20
71 19
72 14
73 10
74 16
75 24
76 13
77 19
78 8
79 6
80 4
81 12
82 7
83 7
84 6
85 10
86 4
87 11
88 6
89+ 96
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Erik Demeulemeester D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 3,017 Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 60 ranges running from 30 to 89+ D-Index.
  • Erik Demeulemeester, a Business and Management scholar from KU Leuven, records 57 D-Index - the 79th percentile of the discipline.
  • 79% of ranked Business and Management scientists score the same or lower than Erik Demeulemeester, and about 21% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 42 D-Index range, and Erik Demeulemeester ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 32 D-Index, holding 171 scientists (6% of the field).
  • 57% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 44 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more, 96 scientists in all (3% of the field).

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

  • 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

  • Project Scheduling: A Research Handbook

    Erik L. Demeulemeester;Willy S. Herroelen

  • Resource-constrained project scheduling: a survey of recent developments

    Willy Herroelen;Bert De Reyck;Erik Demeulemeester

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

    Erik Demeulemeester;Willy Herroelen

  • Building cyclic master surgery schedules with leveled resulting bed occupancy

    Jeroen Beliën;Erik Demeulemeester

  • New Benchmark Results for the Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem

    Erik L. Demeulemeester;Willy S. Herroelen

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

    Erik Demeulemeester;Mario Vanhoucke;Willy Herroelen

  • Workforce planning incorporating skills: State of the art

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

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

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

  • Proactive heuristic procedures for robust project scheduling: An experimental analysis

    Stijn Van de Vonder;Erik Demeulemeester;Willy Herroelen

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

    Olivier Lambrechts;Erik Demeulemeester;Willy Herroelen

  • A branch-and-price approach for integrating nurse and surgery scheduling

    Jeroen Beliën;Erik Demeulemeester

  • A classification scheme for project scheduling

    Willy Herroelen;Erik Demeulemeester;Bert De Reyck

  • Critical Chain Project Scheduling: Do Not Oversimplify:

    Willy Herroelen;Roel Leus;Erik Demeulemeester

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

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

  • Optimizing a multiple objective surgical case sequencing problem

    Brecht Cardoen;Erik Demeulemeester;Jeroen Beliën;Jeroen Beliën

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

    Jeroen Beliën;Erik Demeulemeester;Brecht Cardoen

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

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

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

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

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

    Brecht Cardoen;Erik Demeulemeester;Jeroen Beliën

  • Minimizing resource availability costs in time-limited project networks

    Erik Demeulemeester

  • A classification of predictive-reactive project scheduling procedures

    Stijn Vonder;Erik Demeulemeester;Willy Herroelen

  • Resource-constrained project scheduling - A survey of recent developments

    W Herroelen;B De Reyck;E Demeulemeester

Frequent Co-Authors

Mario Vanhoucke
Mario Vanhoucke Ghent University
Roel Leus
Roel Leus KU Leuven
Rainer Kolisch
Rainer Kolisch Technical University of Munich
Xiao Qin
Xiao Qin Auburn University
Salah E. Elmaghraby
Salah E. Elmaghraby North Carolina State University
Behrooz Karimi
Behrooz Karimi Amirkabir University of Technology
Ahti Salo
Ahti Salo Aalto University
Jan Weglarz
Jan Weglarz Poznań University of Technology
Jan V. Colpaert
Jan V. Colpaert Hasselt University

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