Operational Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Operational Research 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Efficiency analysis of funding resources for rural revitalization in China based on the concept of sustainable development: evidence from parallel DEA with shared inputs/outputs and Tobit models61
A consistency and consensus model for group decision support based on the outranking approach36
Time-dependent vehicle routing problem of perishable product delivery considering the differences among paths on the congested road34
The battle between channel distribution and traffic purchases: a perspective of the mobile application market34
Measuring fair efficiency decomposition in network DEA model under uncertainty: modeling and computational aspects for sustainable supply chain performance assessment31
Transient analysis of some queueing/inventory/healthcare models using homotopy perturbation method28
Pareto-optimal workforce scheduling with worker skills and preferences26
Determining the final recommendation in the ELECTRE III method with a revised distillation procedure23
A novel multi-attribute group decision-making method for talent evaluation using heterogeneous data weighting and an extended cloud-VIKOR model20
A fill-and-reduce greedy algorithm for the container pre-marshalling problem17
Nonparametric efficiency measurement of undergraduate teaching by university size14
An approach multiple criteria network data envelopment analysis model14
Product collection structures in closed-loop supply chains13
Set-cover master problem formulations for maximum flight coverage in branch & price solution algorithms for optimal aircrew rostering13
Two-machine decentralized flow shop scheduling problem with inter-factory batch delivery system13
A new cross-efficiency aggregation in data envelopment analysis: considering fairness mentality and group consensus13
Correction to: Optimization of cross-docking for perishable goods considering freshness dynamics12
An intuitionistic fuzzy score function and distance measure-based decision-making model for prioritizing sustainable strategies for electronic waste management12
Assessing the challenges of digital transformation implementation in sustainable financial services using hybrid multi-criteria group decision-making framework11
A novel uncertainty-incorporated directional distance function approach for healthcare performance assessment during pandemics11
Beyond resilience: an examination of critical success factors for viable supply chains10
Preservation investments in deteriorating inventory and supply chain models: a comprehensive review10
Embracing fairness within a cross-efficiency hierarchical network DEA system10
Pricing and sales effort decisions in multi-channel supply chains: considering the overlapping effects of showrooming and webrooming9
Exact and stochastic methods for robustness analysis in the context of Imprecise Data Envelopment Analysis9
Efficiency evaluation of China’s high-tech industry with a dynamic network data envelopment analysis game cross-efficiency model9
Optimal admission control policy for a single server queueing-inventory system9
Exact accounting of holding costs in a newsvendor model: theory and practice9
Robust maintenance planning and scheduling for multi-factory production networks considering disruption cost: a bi-objective optimization model and a metaheuristic solution method9
Optimization of fractional-order EPQ models with memory-dependent demand and shortage dynamics9
Optimizing substitution of items under the effect of carbon emissions and inflation9
A safety-driven truck loading problem9
Economic and reliability analysis of discrete-time G-queue with multi-optional services and Bernoulli feedback9
Evaluating efficiency and technology gaps of the national systems of entrepreneurship using stochastic DEA and club convergence8
A neutrosophic level-based weight assessment and root assessment method for holistic ecotourism area selections8
A web-based multi-criteria decision support system for benchmarking marketing decisions alternatives8
Less is more: optimizing flexible demand fulfillment under delayed payments with capital constraints8
An improved way to handle the strength of the discordance coalition in ELECTRE multiple criteria decision methods8
Strategic dynamics in hotel and OTA operations: the influence of booking convenience, privacy concerns, and commission rate8
Nurse scheduling problem by considering reserve nurses: a mathematical modeling and hybrid meta-heuristic algorithm8
Operational risk management in managerial accounting: a comprehensive examination of strategies and implementation in medium size organizations8
An inventory model for stock-dependent fluctuating demand and without shortages: stochastic differential equation approach8
A new discrete-time queueing model to optimize cargo dispatch for a warehouse8
Supply–demand effectiveness: capturing the effects of supply and demand mismatches in operational performance measurement8
Extended warranty service strategy in green supply chain with asymmetric demand forecast7
Evaluation of mission effectiveness for dynamic kill network7
A novel inverse data envelopment analysis model with negative ratio data7
An accelerated Benders decomposition algorithm for integrated seaside operations planning with berthing preemption7
Evaluation of the eco-efficiency of the industrial system in China considering regional heterogeneity and dynamics7
A comparative review on AI empowered CRA process of banking and P2P lending models6
Application of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) for site selection of offshore wind farms in India6
A mixed-integer programming approach to surgical suite layout optimization6
ASIP in random environment with disasters6
Unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem with stochastic sequence dependent setup times6
Stochastic transitions of a mixed-integer linear programming model for the construction supply chain: chance-constrained programming and two-stage programming6
Panoptic migrating birds optimization with GCN-guided population iteration: a feature-guided intelligent optimizer (FGIO) for flexible job shop scheduling6
Optimized task assignment and predictive maintenance for industrial machines using Markov decision process6
Energy conservation strategy and coordination of a closed-loop supply chain with risk-averse members under carbon tax regulation6
Dynamic strategy of battery operation in a three-tier new energy vehicle supply chain considering carbon abatement6
Parameter optimization of PID controller based on an enhanced whale optimization algorithm for AVR system6
Correction to: Assessing the efficiency of occupational pension funds in Greece6
Boosting epidemic forecasting performance with enhanced RNN-type models6
Empirical implementation of extraction of decision-maker’s evaluation method in job candidates selection based on interpretable data mining tools6
Achieving win–win collaboration in “Trade-in”: an analysis of the subsidy range and cost-sharing mechanism between E-commerce and recycling platforms5
Educational reforms and secondary school's efficiency performance in Greece: a bootstrap DEA and multilevel approach5
Scheduling with step learning and job rejection5
Decomposition based approach for multi-trip helicopter routing and scheduling problem in last-mile relief distribution and rescue operations5
A variable neighborhood search with different levels of cooperation for the team generalized orienteering problem5
Changing the perspective of system crowding evaluation using a new congestion measure: application to the Emergency Department5
Analysis of sustainable biomedical waste management in India through picture fuzzy goal programming approach5
Return window decision for modular mass customization products in a two-echelon returnable supply chain5
Biform game analysis with the Owen allocation function for a supply chain game under precedence constraints5
Multi-level solid transportation problem for humanitarian relief logistics under uncertain conditions: a mathematical modelling approach5
Mathematical models for the electric vehicle routing problem with time windows considering different aspects of the charging process5
Cooperative investment strategies of ports and shipping companies in blockchain technology5
Transient analysis and cost optimization of a machine repair system with dual-phase repair, working vacation, and retrial5
Overnight charging scheduling of battery electric buses with uncertain charging time5
A two-stage stochastic programming approach to design the fish supply chain network considering export revenues and carbon emission: a real case study5
Inclusive growth: peer-based poverty alleviation supply chain with tax exemption policy5
Vehicle routing Problem for cold chain logistics based on data fusion technology to predict travel time5
Optimal joining strategies in a repairable retrial queue with reserved time and N-policy5
Optimal trade-in delegation strategy considering third-party recycler intrusion and used products with different durability4
Quality effort decision and inspection policy for live streaming e-commerce considering anchor flow effect4
Optimizing telehealth utilization during COVID-19: enhancing efficiency and equity through data envelopment analysis and machine learning4
A state-of-the-art classification and review of parameters that affect the design, control, and operating strategies of order-picking systems4
A bi-objective re-entrant permutation flow shop scheduling problem: minimizing the makespan and maximum tardiness4
Multi-venue location optimization with overlapping audience reach areas4
The value of secondary markets when consumers are socially conscious4
The novel hybrid multiple criteria decision method BWM-Moora-N applied for investment funds prioritization4
Optimizing irrigation network system design through canal capacity analysis4
An exact approach for the charging station location selection problem in urban freight transport4
Optimal treatment for sepsis patients using the risk-adjusted Markov decision process model with the critical state probability4
Single machine scheduling problems involving job-dependent step-deterioration dates and job rejection4
Resilient electric bus system design considering charger failure4
The two-dimensional cutting stock problem with usable leftovers: mathematical modelling and heuristic approaches4
Make me an offer: forward and reverse auctioning problems in the tourism industry4
Hesitant fuzzy hellinger distance-based EDAS decision-making approach for evaluating medical hotels intervention4
Multi-period multi-product production planning in closed-loop supply chain system under demand and return uncertainty: a cost-plus pricing strategy4
A bilevel hierarchical covering model to protect a healthcare network against failures4
Exploring congestion in intermediate products by DEA: an application on Iranian cement supply chain4
Mixed integer quadratic programming for modular robots self reconfiguration problem4
Performance analysis and optimization of state-dependent replenishment policy in queuing-inventory system3
Assessing the efficiency of occupational pension funds in Greece3
The aggregator’s contract design problem in the electricity demand response market3
R&D project portfolio selection using the Iterative Trichotomic Approach in order to study how subjectivity of the weights is reflected in the selected projects of the final portfolio3
Performance analysis of an unreliable bulk arrival retrial queueing model with two way communication3
Multiple criteria decision making and robust optimization to design a development plan for small and medium-sized enterprises in the east of Iran3
Hesitant fuzzy spatial multi-criteria analysis for the site selection of micro electric car-sharing stations3
Coordinating a coal-power supply chain under stochastic carbon prices: a hybrid contract with risk sharing3
Group game cross-efficiency order allocation model based on regret theory and decision consensus3
Robust cross-dock assignment problem with fuzzy chance constrained optimization approach3
Full participation of closed-loop supply chain considering secondary market with portfolio government environmental regulation3
“Do technologies really affect that much? exploring the potential of several industry 4.0 technologies in today’s lean manufacturing shop floors”3
Technological, healthcare and consumer funds efficiency: influence of COVID-193
A branch-and-price algorithm for the last-mile delivery problem considering drivers’ experience3
Improving the assessment of social and environmental impacts of RE projects for financial institutions3
Agri–food supply chain design for perishable products: application to small-scale farmers3
Bi- and multi-objective location routing problems: classification and literature review3
Efficiency and ergonomics: a comprehensive study on item assignment strategies and energy optimization in manual picking warehouses3
Correction: A data-driven multicriteria decision making tool for assessing investments in energy efficiency3
Assessment of offshore wind farm site suitability in India using GIS and MCDM methods3
Modeling the supply chain network in the fast-moving consumer goods industry during COVID-19 pandemic3
Dynamic pricing and preservation strategy for a two-echelon perishable supply chain model with price and time sensitive demand3
Swarm intelligence and nature inspired algorithms for solving vehicle routing problems: a survey3
Operational assessment of nursing homes at times of pandemic: an integrated DEA and machine learning approach3
A dynamic and intelligent decision-making framework for a platelet inventory-distribution network3
A two-stage local search heuristic for solving the steelmaking continuous casting scheduling problem with dual shared-resource and blocking constraints2
Multi-period Itinerary Optimization for Regional Archaeological Tourism: A Case Study2
A continuous-review retrial inventory system with repair options for defective items2
Strategic behavior and social optimization in Markovian working vacation queues with delayed observations2
Solving an EOQ model for varying customers under neutrosophic matrix game2
Spatial multicriteria customer satisfaction analysis: the case of the single-store retailer2
Optimizing pine tree stem volume models using artificial neural networks with minimal input variables2
Optimizing drone-based humanitarian relief in post-disaster scenarios: a hybrid MCDM and maximum coverage approach2
Strategic planning for hub resilience: a stochastic location-routing perspective2
A two-phase resource-constrained project scheduling approach for design and development of complex product systems2
Inventory policy for degrading items under advanced payment with price and memory sensitive demand using metaheuristic techniques2
Periodic review policy in the production management of a single-item inventory with deterioration2
A biobjective model for resource provisioning in multi-cloud environments with capacity constraints2
A note: approximation algorithms for batch scheduling on shops with job rejection2
Performance dynamics in Greek wine sector: a study of technical efficiency and strategic implications2
Intelligent resource planning optimization: enhancing decision making with artificial intelligence2
Discounted network Myerson value and an application in power grid management2
Subtasks scheduling of tasks with different structures in cloud manufacturing systems under maintenance policy and focusing on logistics, tardiness, and earliness aspects2
Benders decomposition algorithm for MMAL balancing problem with express parallel line2
A scheme for emergency material allocation based on decision makers' subjective preference2
Clustering with penalty for joint occurrence of objects: computational aspects2
Optimizing talent supply chains: deep learning models for resume-based retention forecasting2
A ground crew shift rostering model for Santiago International Airport2
A horizontal collaborative approach for planning the wine grape harvesting2
Scheduling on proportionate flowshop with total late work and job rejection2
Contract design for a retailer-dominated supply chain under asymmetric green investment cost information2
Static hedging of freight rate risk in the shipping market under model uncertainty2
Designing an efficient supply chain network for public cord blood bank and quality prediction to improve performance: a case study in Iran2
Pricing strategies for dual-channel supply chain members under pandemic demand disruptions2
Orbit while in service2
Extended p-median problems for balancing service efficiency and equality2
Integrating incentive-driven delivery options and time-dependent routing decisions with availability profiles1
A Lagrangian bounding and heuristic principle for bi-objective discrete optimization1
Treated wastewater reuse practices, under a holistic approach at the city scale1
Sustainable hierarchical multi-modal hub network design problem: bi-objective formulations and solution algorithms1
Development of a new hybrid method for multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) approach: a case study for facility location selection1
Profit efficiency estimation and prediction of banks with mixed structure: a unified DDF-based network DEA and ML approach1
Dynamic vehicle parking pricing: a bilevel optimization approach1
New distance measure-based RANCOM-AROMAN approach for evaluating sustainable human resource management factors in the manufacturing firms1
Cost and revenue efficiency analysis in dynamic network DEA with target setting: a value-based approach1
ESG performance, herding behavior and stock market returns: evidence from Europe1
The impact of COVID-19 on supply chains: systematic review and future research directions1
A fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making framework for constrained city gate station location selection problem in the natural gas network of Iran1
Multi-objective integrated sustainable supply chain scheduling with environmentally friendly and time windows freight transportation1
Soft computing-based new dynamic intuitionistic fuzzy group decision analysis for risk evaluation in BOT highway construction projects1
Effects of price cap regulation on pharmaceutical supply chain under the zero markup drug policy1
Lot scheduling involving completion time problems on identical parallel machines1
A three-echelon sustainable supply chain model for growing items with climate effects, carbon emissions, and delayed payments1
Operations research: a comprehensive literature review on nurse rostering optimisation1
Pricing, warranty, and shelf space decisions for the supply chain with non-symmetric market and warranty-period dependent demand1
Exploring the trade-offs between environmentally oriented policies and financial performance in U.S. banks: non-linear and heterogeneous effects1
A super-efficiency model based on the directional distance function under a new direction1
Supply chain coordination with buyback contract in uncertain environment: one supplier-two retailers1
Optimizing injured people transportation in earthquake response: considering traffic congestion with BPR function1
Disruption detection for a cognitive digital supply chain twin using hybrid deep learning1
Game-theoretic analysis of competition between access service providers utilizing a Nash genetic algorithm1
How cash-back strategy affect sale rate under refund and customers’ credit1
Investigation of pricing and quality competitiveness of additive and traditional products in a dual-channel supply chain model1
Linear fractional programming problems in an interval environment1
A systematic literature review of data envelopment analysis implementation in agriculture under the prism of sustainability1
Strategic channel integration in live stream commerce: balancing display, non-display, and hybrid models1
Iterated greedy with strategic reconstruction for parallel machine problem with weighted tardiness and setup times1
Multi-criteria decision-making with EDAS method and weighted operators for linguistic Fermatean hesitant fuzzy sets1
Maximizing the weighted number of Just-In-Time jobs in a proportionate flow shop with job rejection1
A mathematical programming approach for a wildfire suppression problem1
Pareto-optimal peer evaluation in context-dependent DEA1
Operational research and business intelligence as drivers for digital transformation1
Collection and repurposing decisions for retired power batteries under different firm types and subsidy schemes1
A bi-objective robust optimization model to bolster a resilient medical supply chain in case of the ripple effect1
Three-level sustainable supply chain model with cap-and-trade policy and green technology1
A comparative analysis of MIP formulations for the multi-mode resource-constrained independent task scheduling problem1
Column generation-based diving heuristic and segmentation approach for the micro-service allocation problem with affinity in cloud computing1
Operational taxonomy of farmers' towards circular bioeconomy in regional level1
A new replenishment policy based on product age for blood inventory management considering blockchain1
Logistics mode selection of agricultural products based on fairness concerns1
Exploitation of the Delphi and MCDA aggregation–disaggregationUTASoP method for the educational system evaluation1
An improved NSGAII-SA algorithm for the cell manufacturing system layout optimization problem1
Optimal pricing and production lot-size policies in imperfect production system with price-sensitive demand, reworking, scrap, and sales return1
Competition–cooperation mechanism of online supply chain finance based on a stochastic evolutionary game1
A regret-based query selection strategy for the incremental elicitation of the criteria weights in an SRMP model1
Product innovation opportunity identification using improved BERTopic with the perspectives of customer requirements and technology development1
A cost-effective and sustainable multi-objective 4D product blending transportation solution with all unit discounts in an intuitionistic fuzzy environment1
Integrated optimization of wagon flow routing and train formation plan1
Algebraic solution of project scheduling problems with temporal constraints1
Sequencing a tri-criteria multiple job classes and customer orders problem on a single machine by using heuristics and simulated annealing method1
Modeling and simulation of first-come, first-served queueing system with impatient multiclass customers1
A generalization of unaimed fire Lanchester’s model in multi-battle warfare1
A hybrid revenue-sharing option contract in a competitive supply chain with multiple outsourcing and mean-variance analysis1
Distribution channel strategies of suboptimal food supply chain under demand uncertainty1
Optimal strategies of social commerce platforms in the context of forwarding and bargaining1
A new common weights DEA model based on cluster analysis1
Optimizing the wine transportation process from bottling plants to ports1
Business failure prediction models with high and stable predictive power over time using genetic programming1
Multi-store consumer satisfaction benchmarking using spatial multiple criteria decision analysis1
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