2026 Karl F. Doerner: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	53	4779	4645	33	32	165	12617
Business and Management	51	934	871	7	7	161	12224

Overview

Karl F. Doerner is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria. Their research primarily revolves around engineering, with a particular focus on industrial and manufacturing engineering. Their work also extends into subfields such as building and construction, automotive engineering, food science, and molecular biology.

Their main research topics cover a range of areas related to logistics, optimization, and scheduling. These include:

Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
Urban and Freight Transport Logistics
Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization
Transportation and Mobility Innovations
Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms
Optimization and Packing Problems
Assembly Line Balancing Optimization

Doerner's research has been published multiple times in well-known academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

Procedia Computer Science
Central European Journal of Operations Research
Computers & Operations Research
European Journal of Operational Research
Networks

Some of the recent papers associated with Karl F. Doerner are:

The vehicle routing problem with heterogeneous locker boxes, 2021, Central European Journal of Operations Research
A genetic programming learning approach to generate dispatching rules for flexible shop scheduling problems, 2021, International Journal of Production Economics
The pickup and delivery problem with alternative locations and overlapping time windows, 2022, Computers & Operations Research
Waste collection routing: a survey on problems and methods, 2023, Central European Journal of Operations Research
The vehicle routing problem with arrival time diversification on a multigraph, 2020, European Journal of Operational Research

Doerner has collaborated extensively with several co-authors throughout their career. Frequent collaborators include Margaretha Gansterer, Alina G. Dragomir, Alexander Kinast, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, and Supapit Wongkuna.

Best Publications

A survey on pickup and delivery problems: Part II: Transportation between pickup and delivery locations

Sophie N. Parragh;Karl F. Doerner;Richard F. Hartl

1257
Citations
A survey on pickup and delivery problems

Sophie N. Parragh;Karl F. Doerner;Richard F. Hartl

1230
Citations
Pareto Ant Colony Optimization: A metaheuristic approach to multiobjective portfolio selection

Karl F. Doerner;Walter J. Gutjahr;Richard F. Hartl;Christine Strauss

622
Citations
D-Ants: savings based ants divide and conquer the vehicle routing problem

Marc Reimann;Karl Doerner;Richard F. Hartl

589
Citations
A variable neighborhood search heuristic for periodic routing problems

Vera C. Hemmelmayr;Karl F. Doerner;Richard F. Hartl

411
Citations
A Variable Neighborhood Search for the Multi Depot Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows

Michael Polacek;Richard F. Hartl;Karl Doerner;Marc Reimann

384
Citations
Ambulance location and relocation problems with time-dependent travel times

Verena Schmid;Karl F. Doerner

346
Citations
Ant colony optimization for the two-dimensional loading vehicle routing problem

Guenther Fuellerer;Karl F. Doerner;Richard F. Hartl;Manuel Iori

310
Citations
Variable neighborhood search for the dial-a-ride problem

Sophie N. Parragh;Karl F. Doerner;Richard F. Hartl

279
Citations
Metaheuristics for vehicle routing problems with three-dimensional loading constraints

Guenther Fuellerer;Karl F. Doerner;Richard F. Hartl;Manuel Iori

259
Citations
Heuristics for the multi-period orienteering problem with multiple time windows

Fabien Tricoire;Martin Romauch;Karl F. Doerner;Richard F. Hartl

249
Citations
Adaptive large neighborhood search for service technician routing and scheduling problems

Attila A. Kovacs;Sophie N. Parragh;Karl F. Doerner;Richard F. Hartl

235
Citations
Delivery strategies for blood products supplies

Vera C. Hemmelmayr;Karl F. Doerner;Richard F. Hartl;Martin W. P. Savelsbergh

235
Citations
Pareto ant colony optimization with ILP preprocessing in multiobjective project portfolio selection

Karl F. Doerner;Walter J. Gutjahr;Richard F. Hartl;Christine Strauss

234
Citations
Multicriteria tour planning for mobile healthcare facilities in a developing country

Karl Doerner;Axel Focke;Walter J. Gutjahr

231
Citations
Metaheuristics for the bi-objective orienteering problem

Michael Schilde;Karl F. Doerner;Karl F. Doerner;Richard F. Hartl;Guenter Kiechle

209
Citations
Metaheuristics for the dynamic stochastic dial-a-ride problem with expected return transports

M. Schilde;K.F. Doerner;R.F. Hartl

197
Citations
Multi-criteria location planning for public facilities in tsunami-prone coastal areas

Karl F. Doerner;Walter J. Gutjahr;Pamela C. Nolz

192
Citations
Integrating stochastic time-dependent travel speed in solution methods for the dynamic dial-a-ride problem.

Michael Schilde;Karl F. Doerner;Richard F. Hartl

183
Citations
Risk approaches for delivering disaster relief supplies

Pamela C. Nolz;Frédéric Semet;Karl F. Doerner

162
Citations
Metaheuristics for the vehicle routing problem with loading constraints

Karl F. Doerner;Guenther Fuellerer;Richard F. Hartl;Manfred Gronalt

94
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard F. Hartl University of Vienna

Walter J. Gutjahr University of Vienna

Manuel Iori University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Martin W. P. Savelsbergh Georgia Institute of Technology

Vittorio Maniezzo University of Bologna

Michel Gendreau Polytechnique Montréal

Frédéric Semet University of Lille

Thomas Stützle Université Libre de Bruxelles

Gilbert Laporte HEC Montréal

Gustav Feichtinger TU Wien

External Links

Personal website of Karl F. Doerner Google Scholar page

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