OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Scheduling is 1. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Scheduling computations with provably low synchronization overheads	30
The flexibility of home away pattern sets	29
An efficient model-based branch-and-price algorithm for unrelated-parallel machine batching and scheduling problems	26
Flow shops with reentry: The total weighted completion time objective	20
A graphical evaluation and review technique for scheduling construction projects	19
Single-machine scheduling with resource-dependent processing times and multiple unavailability periods	14
A quest for a fair schedule: The International Young Physicists’ Tournament	13
Real-world university course timetabling at the International Timetabling Competition 2019	13
Complexity of scheduling few types of jobs on related and unrelated machines	11
Preface: the practice and theory of automated timetabling (2022)	10
Approximation algorithms for scheduling monotonic moldable tasks on multiple platforms	9
Scheduling of Earth observing satellites using distributed constraint optimization	9
Designing a long-term master surgical timetable: a case study in balancing post-operative ward bed demand and minimizing changes in surgical schedules	8
Well-behaved online load balancing against strategic jobs	8
Task assignments with rotations and flexible shift starts to improve demand coverage and staff satisfaction in healthcare	8
An improved approximation algorithm for a scheduling problem with transporter coordination	8
Scheduling with non-renewable resources: minimizing the sum of completion times	8
In memoriam Gerhard Woeginger	8
Hybrid-sched: a QoS adaptive offline–online scheduler for real-time tasks on multi-cores	6
A cut-and-branch algorithm for the external candidates examination scheduling problem	6
A hybrid local search algorithm for the continuous energy-constrained scheduling problem	6
A fix-and-optimize heuristic for the ITC2021 sports timetabling problem	6
Selection hyper-heuristics and job shop scheduling problems: How does instance size influence performance?	6
An exact solution with an improved running time for the routing flow shop problem with two machines	6
A general scheme for solving a large set of scheduling problems with rejection in FPT time	5

Continuity of care in home health care scheduling: a rolling horizon approach	5
A hybrid approach for the dynamic flexible job shop scheduling problem considering machine failures	5
Serial batching to minimize the weighted number of tardy jobs	5
Project scheduling in a lean environment to maximize value and minimize overruns	5
On variants of a load-balancing problem with unit-load jobs	5
Plant shutdown maintenance workforce team assignment and job scheduling	5
A note on the shifting bottleneck procedure for job shop scheduling	4
Mixed-model moving assembly line material placement optimization for a shorter time-dependent worker walking time	4
Semi-online models for cardinality constrained bin packing	4
Simulated annealing with penalization for university course timetabling	4
Scheduling to maximize the weighted number of on-time jobs on parallel machines with bounded job-rejection	4
A reinforcement learning algorithm for rescheduling preempted tasks in fog nodes	4
Minimizing the expected waiting time of emergency jobs	4
Scheduling of e-commerce packaging machines: blocking machines and their impact on the performance–waste tradeoff	4
A multivariate complexity analysis of the material consumption scheduling problem	4
Tabu search for a parallel-machine scheduling problem with periodic maintenance, job rejection and weighted sum of completion times	4
Optimizing rest times and differences in games played: an iterative two-phase approach	4
The price of anarchy for a berth allocation game	4
Equitable scheduling on a single machine	4
A parallel ruin and recreate heuristic for personnel scheduling in a flexible working environment	4
Scheduling web banner advertisements with conflicts and time windows: a column generation-based solution approach	4
Joint replenishment meets scheduling	3
Network routing on regular digraphs and their line graphs	3
Scheduling periodic messages on a shared link without buffering	3
A buffer allocation evolutionary algorithm for resource-constrained projects with activity clusters	3
An analysis of the parameterized complexity of periodic timetabling	3
Advances in the practice and theory of automated timetabling	3
Limited integrated production scheduling and vehicle routing in the steel industry	3
Sustainable scheduling for a flexible job shop considering batch processing and batch transportation strategies	3
Scheduling the repair and replacement of individual components in operating systems: a bi-objective mathematical optimization model	3
Maximizing barrier coverage lifetime with static sensors	3
Scheduling with periodic availability constraints to minimize makespan	3
Recoverable robust single machine scheduling with polyhedral uncertainty	3
Single machine rescheduling for new orders with maximum and total time disruption constraints	3
Single-machine and flow-shop scheduling with supporting tasks in a nested structure	2
Mathematical challenges in scheduling theory	2
Single-machine two-agent scheduling with a rate-modifying activity and weighted due-date-related functions	2
Correction to: Broadcasting a file in a communication network	2
Scheduling a pick and place packaging line	2
Polynomial-time solutions for minimizing total load on unrelated machines with position-dependent processing times and rate-modifying activities	2
Exact algorithms and approximation schemes for proportionate flow shop scheduling with step-deteriorating processing times	2
Approximation algorithms for batch scheduling with processing set restrictions	2
Graph representation of the fixed route dial-a-ride problem	2
A polynomial-time dynamic programming algorithm for an optimal picking problem in automated warehouses	2
A large neighborhood search approach for the paint shop scheduling problem	2
Resource leveling: complexity of a unit execution time two-processor scheduling variant and related problems	2
A constructive branch-and-bound algorithm for the project duration problem with partially renewable resources and general temporal constraints	2
Preemptive scheduling of parallel jobs of two sizes with controllable processing times	2
Editorial: Journal of Scheduling (2023)	1
Further connections between contract-scheduling and ray-searching problems	1

Online algorithms to schedule a proportionate flexible flow shop of batching machines	1
Lower bounds for online scheduling on four processors	1
Minimizing the earliness–tardiness for the customer order scheduling problem in a dedicated machine environment	1
Special Issue on papers from the 2019 Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems	1
Scheduling a single machine with multiple due dates per job	1
Tight approximation bounds for the LPT rule applied to identical parallel machines with small jobs	1
Multiprocessor scheduling with testing: improved online algorithms and numerical experiments	1
Twin-crane scheduling during seaside workload peaks with a dedicated handshake area	1
Learning to enumerate shifts for large-scale flexible personnel scheduling problems	1
Block-based state-expanded network models for multi-activity shift scheduling	1
A mixed-integer programming approach for solving university course timetabling problems	1
The preemptive resource allocation problem	1
Approximating weighted completion time via stronger negative correlation	1
Exact and metaheuristic methods for a real-world examination timetabling problem	1
Quick and situ-aware spatiotemporal scheduling for shipbuilding manufacturing	1
More on ordered open end bin packing	1
A review and classification of scheduling objectives in unpaced flow shops for discrete manufacturing	1
A solution framework for multi-skilled project scheduling problems with hierarchical skills	1
Fixed-parameter tractability of scheduling dependent typed tasks subject to release times and deadlines	1