Operations Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Operations Research is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board108
Scores for Multivariate Distributions and Level Sets92
Heavy-Traffic Universality of Redundancy Systems with Assignment Constraints67
Community-Engaged School District Design: A Stream-Based Approach67
Technical Note—On Matrix Exponential Differentiation with Application to Weighted Sum Distributions62
Black-Box Acceleration of Monotone Convex Program Solvers61
Asymptotically Tight Bounds on the Optimal Pricing Strategy with Patient Customers57
Technical Note—Assortment Planning for Two-Sided Sequential Matching Markets52
Side-Constrained Dynamic Traffic Equilibria52
The Price of Fairness of Scheduling a Scarce Resource51
Optimal Dynamic Momentum Strategies48
Comparing Sequential Forecasters46
Change-Point Detection in Dynamic Networks with Missing Links46
Nonrobust Strong Knapsack Cuts for Capacitated Location Routing and Related Problems44
Multiobjective Optimization for Politically Fair Districting: A Scalable Multilevel Approach41
Optimal Cash Management with Payables Finance38
New Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming Formulations for the Unit Commitment Problems with Ramping Constraints38
Stochastic Optimization Approaches for an Operating Room and Anesthesiologist Scheduling Problem38
Temporal Fairness in Learning and Earning: Price Protection Guarantee and Phase Transitions37
Fast Quantum Subroutines for the Simplex Method37
Portfolio Selection, Periodic Evaluations and Risk Taking37
High-Dimensional Learning Under Approximate Sparsity with Applications to Nonsmooth Estimation and Regularized Neural Networks36
Fast and Simple Solutions of Blotto Games36
In This Issue36
Survey of Dynamic Resource-Constrained Reward Collection Problems: Unified Model and Analysis35
Does the Prohibition of Trade-Through Hurt Liquidity Demanders?35
Editorial Board33
Structural Estimation of Markov Decision Processes in High-Dimensional State Space with Finite-Time Guarantees32
Technical Note—First-Stage Sampling in Ranking and Selection: Beyond Variance Estimation31
Optimal Regularized Online Allocation by Adaptive Re-Solving31
Data-Driven Ranking and Selection Under Input Uncertainty31
On the Structure of Decision Diagram–Representable Mixed-Integer Programs with Application to Unit Commitment31
Online Linear Programming: Dual Convergence, New Algorithms, and Regret Bounds29
Estimation of High-Dimensional Contextual Pricing Models with Nonparametric Price Confounders29
Network Revenue Management Under a Spiked Multinomial Logit Choice Model29
Dynamic Programming in Ordered Vector Space28
Deepest Cuts for Benders Decomposition28
Package Bids in Combinatorial Electricity Auctions: Selection, Welfare Losses, and Alternatives27
Technical Note—Masking Anstreicher’s linx Bound for Improved Entropy Bounds27
Revenue Maximization and Learning in Product Ranking26
Efficient Learning for Clustering and Optimizing Context-Dependent Designs26
Quality Selection in Two-Sided Markets: A Constrained Price Discrimination Approach25
The Best of Many Worlds: Dual Mirror Descent for Online Allocation Problems25
In This Issue24
Asymptotic Optimality of Semi-Open-Loop Policies in Markov Decision Processes with Large Lead Times24
A Stationary Mean-Field Equilibrium Model of Irreversible Investment in a Two-Regime Economy24
The Gatekeeper’s Dilemma: “When Should I Transfer This Customer?”23
In This Issue23
Enhanced Balancing of Bias-Variance Tradeoff in Stochastic Estimation: A Minimax Perspective23
Feature-Based Dynamic Matching23
Modeling the Risk in Mortality Projections23
Technical Note—Greedy Algorithm for Multiway Matching with Bounded Regret23
Exit Spirals in Coupled Networked Markets23
Monetizing Positive Externalities to Mitigate the Infrastructure Underinvestment Problem22
Optimizing the Path Towards Plastic-Free Oceans22
Online Joint Assortment-Inventory Optimization Under MNL Choices21
A First-Order Approach to Accelerated Value Iteration21
Gradient-Based Algorithms for Convex Discrete Optimization via Simulation21
A Branch-and-Repair Method for Three-Dimensional Bin Selection and Packing in E-Commerce21
Jointly Modeling and Clustering Tensors in High Dimensions21
Proximal Reinforcement Learning: Efficient Off-Policy Evaluation in Partially Observed Markov Decision Processes21
In This Apportionment Lottery, the House Always Wins20
Near-Optimal Pricing and Resource Allocation in a Large-Scale Service System20
Joint Inventory and Pricing for a One-Warehouse Multistore Problem: Spiraling Phenomena, Near Optimal Policies, and the Value of Dynamic Pricing20
Robust Queue Inference from Waiting Times20
A Planner-Trader Decomposition for Multimarket Hydro Scheduling19
Production Planning with Risk Hedging Under a Conditional Value at Risk Objective19
Technical Note—The Multinomial Logit Model with Sequential Offerings: Algorithmic Frameworks for Product Recommendation Displays19
Technical Note—An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach to the Incremental Knapsack Problem19
Deep Learning for High-Dimensional Continuous-Time Stochastic Optimal Control Without Explicit Solution19
Statistical Inference for Aggregation of Malmquist Productivity Indices19
Editorial Board18
Hard and Soft Defense Against a Sequence of Aerial Threats18
Finding Minimum Volume Circumscribing Ellipsoids Using Generalized Copositive Programming18
Binary Diversification Characterizes Exact Capacities18
Dynamic Pricing and Matching for Two-Sided Queues18
Technical Note—Risk-Averse Regret Minimization in Multistage Stochastic Programs18
Preface to the Special Issue on Behavioral Queueing Science: The Need for a Multidisciplinary Approach18
Matching Queues with Abandonments in Quantum Switches: Stability and Throughput Analysis17
E-Commerce Order Fulfillment Problem with Limited Time Window17
Consistency Cuts for Dantzig-Wolfe Reformulations17
Political Districting to Minimize County Splits17
Dual Sourcing Made Easy: Distributionally Robust Optimization of Inventory Systems Under Independent Demand17
Spectral Ranking Inferences Based on General Multiway Comparisons17
Minimax Optimal Estimation of Stability Under Distribution Shift17
Preservation of Multimodularity: New Results and Applications17
Revenue Management Under a Mixture of Independent Demand and Multinomial Logit Models17
Optimal Pricing and Introduction Timing of Technology Upgrades in Subscription-Based Services16
Optimal No-Regret Learning in Repeated First-Price Auctions16
A Repeated Route-then-Schedule Approach to Coordinated Vehicle Platooning: Algorithms, Valid Inequalities and Computation16
Efficient Decentralized Multi-agent Learning in Asymmetric Bipartite Queueing Systems16
Smoothness-Adaptive Contextual Bandits16
Recursive Importance Sketching for Rank Constrained Least Squares: Algorithms and High-Order Convergence16
Dual-Directed Algorithm Design for Efficient Pure Exploration16
Market Making and Incentives Design in the Presence of a Dark Pool: A Stackelberg Actor–Critic Approach16
The Analytics of Bed Shortages: Coherent Metric, Prediction, and Optimization16
Assortment and Price Optimization Under a Multiattribute (Contextual) Choice Model16
Data Aggregation and Demand Prediction16
Asymptotically Optimal Control of a Centralized Dynamic Matching Market with General Utilities15
Regime-Dependent Approximations for the Single-Item Dynamic Pricing Problem15
Selection of the Most Probable Best15
Technical Note—Data-Driven Chance Constrained Programs over Wasserstein Balls15
Technical Note—Multistage Robust Mixed-Integer Programming15
To Interfere or Not To Interfere: Information Revelation and Price-Setting Incentives in a Multiagent Learning Environment15
Early Reservation for Follow-up Appointments in a Slotted-Service Queue15
A Pareto Dominance Principle for Data-Driven Optimization15
Learning Product Rankings Robust to Fake Users15
Is Your Price Personalized? Alleviating Customer Concerns with Inventory Availability Information15
The Fragility of Optimized Bandit Algorithms15
Optimizing the Trade-off Between Batching and Waiting: Subadditive Dispatching15
Distributionally Robust Optimization Under Distorted Expectations14
Optimal Feature-Based Market Segmentation and Pricing14
A Data-Driven Approach to Improve Artisans’ Productivity in Distributed Supply Chains14
Shortest-Job-First Scheduling in Many-Server Queues with Impatient Customers and Noisy Service-Time Estimates14
You Are the Best Reviewer of Your Own Papers: The Isotonic Mechanism14
Contextual Search in the Presence of Adversarial Corruptions14
A Doubly Stochastic Simulator with Applications in Arrivals Modeling and Simulation14
Single-Product Assemble-to-Order Systems with Exogenous Lead Times14
The Pandora’s Box Problem with Sequential Inspections14
Mean-Risk Traffic Assignment Under the Continuously Distributed Risk-Aversion Factor14
Inventory Sharing for Perishable Products: Application to Platelet Inventory Management in Hospital Blood Banks14
Procurement for Assembly Systems Under Supply Uncertainty: Optimal Mechanisms14
Harvesting Solar Power Foments Prices in a Vicious Cycle: Breaking the Cycle with Price Mechanisms14
On (Random-Order) Online Contention Resolution Schemes for the Matching Polytope of (Bipartite) Graphs14
Better Regularization for Sequential Decision Spaces: Fast Convergence Rates for Nash, Correlated, and Team Equilibria14
Pooling Agents for Customer-Intensive Services14
Online Tensor Inference14
Optimal Investment, Heterogeneous Consumption, and Best Time for Retirement14
The Price of Incentivizing Exploration: A Characterization via Thompson Sampling and Sample Complexity14
Rate-Optimal Online Learning for Dynamic Assortment Selection with Positioning14
The Value of Coordination in Multimarket Bidding of Grid Energy Storage14
Data-Driven Minimax Optimization with Expectation Constraints14
A Note on Piecewise Affine Decision Rules for Robust, Stochastic, and Data-Driven Optimization14
Establishing Convergence of Infinite-Server Queues with Batch Arrivals to Shot-Noise Processes13
New Venture Creation: A Drift-Variance Diffusion Control Model13
Stochastic Online Fisher Markets: Static Pricing Limits and Adaptive Enhancements13
Technical Note—The Complexity of the Pricing Problem of the Set Partitioning Formulation of Vehicle Routing Problems13
When Service Times Depend on Customers’ Delays: A Relationship Between Two Models of Dependence13
Ordinary and Prophet Planning Under Uncertainty in Bernoulli Congestion Games13
Infinite-Dimensional Fisher Markets and Tractable Fair Division13
A Convex Reformulation and an Outer Approximation for a Large Class of Binary Quadratic Programs13
Matching Drivers to Riders: A Two-Stage Robust Approach13
Process Flexibility: A Distribution-Free Approach to Long Chain Resilience12
Adaptive, Doubly Optimal No-Regret Learning in Strongly Monotone and Exp-Concave Games with Gradient Feedback12
Post Reinforcement Learning Inference12
Learning in Inverse Optimization: Incenter Cost, Augmented Suboptimality Loss, and Algorithms12
Load Balancing Using Sparse Communication12
The Anchor-Robust Project Scheduling Problem12
Technical Note—On Adaptivity in Nonstationary Stochastic Optimization with Bandit Feedback12
Learning to Schedule in Multiclass Many-Server Queues with Abandonment12
Tight Guarantees for Static Threshold Policies in the Prophet Secretary Problem12
Persuading Risk-Conscious Agents: A Geometric Approach12
Robust Assortment Optimization Under the Markov Chain Choice Model12
Optimal Auction Design with Deferred Inspection and Reward12
Need for Speed: The Impact of In-Process Delays on Customer Behavior in Online Retail12
Platform Disintermediation: Information Effects and Pricing Remedies11
Who Is Next: Patient Prioritization Under Emergency Department Blocking11
Scalable Reinforcement Learning for Multiagent Networked Systems11
Continuity, Uniqueness, and Long-Term Behavior of Nash Flows over Time11
Dynamic Stochastic Matching Under Limited Time11
A Unifying Framework for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem Under Risk and Ambiguity11
An ADMM-Based Distributed Optimization Method for Solving Security-Constrained Alternating Current Optimal Power Flow11
Advertising Cycling to Manage Exclusivity Loss in Fashion Styles11
Technical Note—Product-Based Approximate Linear Programs for Network Revenue Management11
Building a Location-Based Set of Social Media Users11
Lagrangian Inference for Ranking Problems11
Online Matching with Stochastic Rewards: Optimal Competitive Ratio via Path-Based Formulation11
In This Issue11
Naive Learning Through Probability Overmatching11
On Finite Adaptability in Two-Stage Distributionally Robust Optimization11
Revenue Management of a Professional Services Firm with Quality Revelation11
A Strongly Polynomial Algorithm for Linear Exchange Markets10
Technical Note—Asymptotically Optimal Control of Omnichannel Service Systems with Pick-up Guarantees10
Regularized Aggregation of One-Off Probability Predictions10
Assortment Optimization with Replacement Options for Retail Platforms with Stockout Risk10
Efficient Algorithms for a Class of Stochastic Hidden Convex Optimization and Its Applications in Network Revenue Management10
On the Robustness of Second-Price Auctions in Prior-Independent Mechanism Design10
Best of Both Worlds: Ex Ante and Ex Post Fairness in Resource Allocation10
Convergence and Inference of Stream Stochastic Gradient Descent, with Applications to Queueing Systems and Inventory Control10
An Approximate Analysis of Dynamic Pricing, Outsourcing, and Scheduling Policies for a Multiclass Make-to-Stock Queue in the Heavy Traffic Regime10
Technical Note—The Generalized Sethi Advertising Model10
Ranking and Contextual Selection10
Reliable Off-Policy Evaluation for Reinforcement Learning10
Recovering Dantzig–Wolfe Bounds by Cutting Planes10
Unit Commitment Without Commitment: A Dynamic Programming Approach for Managing an Integrated Energy System Under Uncertainty10
Building Formulations for Piecewise Linear Relaxations of Nonlinear Functions10
Utility Preference Robust Optimization with Moment-Type Information Structure10
Exploiting Random Lead Times for Significant Inventory Cost Savings10
In This Issue10
Many-Server Queueing Systems with Heterogeneous Strategic Servers in Heavy Traffic10
In This Issue10
The Power of Adaptivity for Stochastic Submodular Cover10
Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Optimization and Variation Regularization10
Testing, Voluntary Social Distancing, and the Spread of an Infection10
Uncertainty Quantification and Exploration for Reinforcement Learning9
Mixed-Integer Optimization with Constraint Learning9
On-Demand Ride-Matching in a Spatial Model with Abandonment and Cancellation9
2025 Operations Research Reviewer Meritorious Service Awards9
Bayesian and Randomized Clock Auctions9
Adversarial Robustness for Latent Models: Revisiting the Robust-Standard Accuracies Tradeoff9
Efficient Resource Allocation Contracts to Reduce Adverse Events9
Revenue Management with Heterogeneous Resources: Unit Resource Capacities, Advance Bookings, and Itineraries over Time Intervals9
Breaking the Sample Size Barrier in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with a Generative Model9
Search in the Dark: The Case with Recall and Gaussian Learning9
Improving Upon the Generalized c μ Rule: A Whittle Approach9
Beyond O(T) Regret: Decoupling Learning and Decision Making in Online Linear Programming9
Robustness of Proactive Intensive Care Unit Transfer Policies9
Optimization Formulations for Storage Devices with Disjoint Operating Modes9
Instrumenting While Experimenting: An Empirical Method for Competitive Pricing at Scale9
Sample and Computationally Efficient Stochastic Kriging in High Dimensions9
Treatment Planning for Victims with Heterogeneous Time Sensitivities in Mass Casualty Incidents9
Static Pricing for Multi-unit Prophet Inequalities9
Debiasing In-Sample Policy Performance for Small-Data, Large-Scale Optimization9
Technical Note—Dynamic Mechanism Design with Capacity Constraint9
In This Issue9
Technical Note—Optimizing Risk-Balancing Return Under Discrete Choice Models9
Linear Classifiers Under Infinite Imbalance9
Editorial Board8
Technical Note—Ranking Distributions When Only Means and Variances Are Known8
Technical Note—Online Hypergraph Matching with Delays8
Individualized Dynamic Patient Monitoring Under Alarm Fatigue8
Sensitivity Analysis Under the f -Sensitivity Model: A Distributional Robustness Perspective8
Stochastic Localization Methods for Convex Discrete Optimization via Simulation8
Revenue Maximization Under Unknown Private Values with Nonobligatory Inspection8
Technical Note—A Data-Driven Approach to Beating SAA Out of Sample8
Technical Note—A New Rate-Optimal Sampling Allocation for Linear Belief Models8
Algorithms for Loot Box Design8
Asymptotic Product-Form Steady State for Generalized Jackson Networks in Multiscale Heavy Traffic8
Erratum to Online Allocation and Pricing: Constant Regret via Bellman Inequalities8
An Optimal Control Framework for Online Job Scheduling with General Cost Functions8
Characterizing Rational Transplant Program Response to Outcome-Based Regulation8
Weighted Scoring Rules and Convex Risk Measures8
Foresee the Next Line: Customer Strategies and Information Disclosure in Tandem Queues8
Technical Note—Data-Driven Profit Estimation Error in the Newsvendor Model8
Decision Making with Side Information: A Causal Transport Robust Approach8
The Generalized c/μ Rule for Queues with Heterogeneous Server Pools8
Customer Scheduling in Large Service Systems Under Model Uncertainty8
Casting Light on the Hidden Bilevel Combinatorial Structure of the Capacitated Vertex Separator Problem8
Endogenous Inverse Demand Functions8
A Mutual Catastrophe Insurance Framework for Horizontal Collaboration in Prepositioning Strategic Reserves7
Appointment Scheduling of Outpatient Clinical Services Under Uncertain Patient Flows7
The Cut-and-Play Algorithm: Computing Nash Equilibria via Outer Approximations7
Event-Triggered Bayesian Control Chart7
Mixed-Projection Conic Optimization: A New Paradigm for Modeling Rank Constraints7
Multivariate Almost Stochastic Dominance: Transfer Characterizations and Sufficient Conditions Under Dependence Uncertainty7
Joint Assortment Optimization and Customization Under a Mixture of Multinomial Logit Models: On the Value of Personalized Assortments7
Optimized Dimensionality Reduction for Moment-Based Distributionally Robust Optimization7
Online Planning in Nonstationary Environments7
Dual Sourcing in an Assembly System: A Simple and Effective Critical-Set Base-Surge Policy7
Risk-Aware Linear Bandits: Theory and Applications in Smart Order Routing7
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