OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Scheduling 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Scheduling computations with provably low synchronization overheads	27
An efficient model-based branch-and-price algorithm for unrelated-parallel machine batching and scheduling problems	25
The flexibility of home away pattern sets	20
A graphical evaluation and review technique for scheduling construction projects	19
A quest for a fair schedule: The International Young Physicists’ Tournament	17
Real-world university course timetabling at the International Timetabling Competition 2019	17
Single-machine scheduling with resource-dependent processing times and multiple unavailability periods	16
Complexity of scheduling few types of jobs on related and unrelated machines	13
Preface: the practice and theory of automated timetabling (2022)	11
Scheduling of Earth observing satellites using distributed constraint optimization	11
Scheduling with non-renewable resources: minimizing the sum of completion times	8
Task assignments with rotations and flexible shift starts to improve demand coverage and staff satisfaction in healthcare	8
Approximation algorithms for scheduling monotonic moldable tasks on multiple platforms	8
Introducing UniCorT: an iterative university course timetabling tool with MaxSAT	7
An improved approximation algorithm for a scheduling problem with transporter coordination	7
Hybrid-sched: a QoS adaptive offline–online scheduler for real-time tasks on multi-cores	7
In memoriam Gerhard Woeginger	7
Well-behaved online load balancing against strategic jobs	7
An exact solution with an improved running time for the routing flow shop problem with two machines	6
A cut-and-branch algorithm for the external candidates examination scheduling problem	6
Plant shutdown maintenance workforce team assignment and job scheduling	6
Selection hyper-heuristics and job shop scheduling problems: How does instance size influence performance?	6
A fix-and-optimize heuristic for the ITC2021 sports timetabling problem	6
A hybrid local search algorithm for the continuous energy-constrained scheduling problem	6
Project scheduling in a lean environment to maximize value and minimize overruns	5

Minimizing the expected waiting time of emergency jobs	5
On variants of a load-balancing problem with unit-load jobs	5
Serial batching to minimize the weighted number of tardy jobs	5
Continuity of care in home health care scheduling: a rolling horizon approach	5
A note on the shifting bottleneck procedure for job shop scheduling	5
The price of anarchy for a berth allocation game	4
A general scheme for solving a large set of scheduling problems with rejection in FPT time	4
Equitable scheduling on a single machine	4
A parallel ruin and recreate heuristic for personnel scheduling in a flexible working environment	4
Simulated annealing with penalization for university course timetabling	4
A reinforcement learning algorithm for rescheduling preempted tasks in fog nodes	4
Mixed-model moving assembly line material placement optimization for a shorter time-dependent worker walking time	4
Optimizing rest times and differences in games played: an iterative two-phase approach	4
Tabu search for a parallel-machine scheduling problem with periodic maintenance, job rejection and weighted sum of completion times	4
Online scheduling to minimize total weighted (modified) earliness and tardiness cost	4
Routing two stacking cranes with predetermined container sequences	4
Scheduling of e-commerce packaging machines: blocking machines and their impact on the performance–waste tradeoff	4