Most cited papers in Optimization and Mathematical Programming
What are the most cited papers in Optimization and Mathematical Programming?
The most cited paper in Optimization and Mathematical Programming is "Measuring the efficiency of decision making units" (A. Charnes, William White Cooper, Edwardo L. Rhodes, 1978), with 29,033 citations. Next come "Some Models for Estimating Technical and Scale Inefficiencies in Data Envelopment Analysis" (16,797) and "The Hungarian method for the assignment problem" (13,017).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 876 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Measuring the efficiency of decision making units A. Charnes, William White Cooper, Edwardo L. Rhodes · European Journal of Operational Research | Nov 1978 | 29,033 |
| 2 | Some Models for Estimating Technical and Scale Inefficiencies in Data Envelopment Analysis Rajiv D. Banker, A. Charnes, William White Cooper · Management Science | Sep 1984 | 16,797 |
| 3 | The Hungarian method for the assignment problem Harold William Kuhn · Naval Research Logistics Quarterly | Mar 1955 | 13,017 |
| 4 | Using multivariate statistics, 5th ed. Barbara Gerson Tabachnick, Linda S. Fidell | 2007 | 10,142 |
| 5 | On ordered weighted averaging aggregation operators in multicriteria decisionmaking Ronald R. Yager · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics | 1988 | 7,289 |
| 6 | A slacks-based measure of efficiency in data envelopment analysis Kaoru Tone · European Journal of Operational Research | May 2001 | 5,650 |
| 7 | The Truck Dispatching Problem George B. Dantzig, J. H. Ramser · Management Science | Oct 1959 | 4,980 |
| 8 | Compromise solution by MCDM methods: A comparative analysis of VIKOR and TOPSIS Serafim C. Opricovic, Gwo‐Hshiung Tzeng · European Journal of Operational Research | 4 Apr 2003 | 4,978 |
| 9 | Best-worst multi-criteria decision-making method Jafar Rezaei · Omega | 3 Dec 2014 | 4,312 |
| 10 | Future paths for integer programming and links to artificial intelligence Fred Glover · Computers & Operations Research | 1986 | 4,164 |
| 11 | Extensions of the TOPSIS for group decision-making under fuzzy environment Chen‐Tung Arthur Chen · Fuzzy Sets and Systems | Aug 2000 | 3,850 |
| 12 | Analytic hierarchy process: An overview of applications Omkarprasad S. Vaidya, Sushil Kumar · European Journal of Operational Research | 16 Jul 2004 | 3,822 |
| 13 | A Procedure for Ranking Efficient Units in Data Envelopment Analysis Per Kragh Andersen, Niels Christian Petersen · Management Science | Oct 1993 | 3,709 |
| 14 | Fuzzy programming and linear programming with several objective functions H.‐J. Zimmermann · Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1978 | 3,614 |
| 15 | Fuzzy hierarchical analysis James J. Buckley · Fuzzy Sets and Systems | Dec 1985 | 3,354 |
| 16 | On Nonlinear Fractional Programming Werner Dinkelbach · Management Science | Mar 1967 | 3,205 |
| 17 | Programming with linear fractional functionals A. Charnes, William White Cooper · Naval Research Logistics Quarterly | Sep 1962 | 2,965 |
| 18 | Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: An Integrated Approach Valerie Belton, Theodor J. Stewart · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) | 31 Oct 2001 | 2,730 |
| 19 | The relaxation method of finding the common point of convex sets and its application to the solution of problems in convex programming Lev M. Bregman · USSR Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics | 1967 | 2,699 |
| 20 | Theoretical Improvements in Algorithmic Efficiency for Network Flow Problems Jack Edmonds, Richard M. Karp · Journal of the ACM | Apr 1972 | 2,558 |
| 21 | The concept of a linguistic variable and its application to approximate reasoning—II Lotfi A. Zadeh · Information Sciences | 1975 | 2,545 |
| 22 | Generalized Benders decomposition Arthur M. Geoffrion · Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications | Oct 1972 | 2,500 |
| 23 | Some geometric aggregation operators based on intuitionistic fuzzy sets Zeshui Xu, Ronald R. Yager · International Journal of General Systems | Aug 2006 | 2,376 |
| 24 | Theory of Linear and Integer Programming. David Keith Smith, Alexander Schrijver · Journal of the Operational Research Society | Jun 1987 | 2,292 |
| 25 | Multi-criteria decision making approaches for supplier evaluation and selection: A literature review William Ho, Xiaowei Xu, Prasanta Kumar Dey · European Journal of Operational Research | 19 May 2009 | 2,194 |
| 26 | Integer Programming Formulation of Traveling Salesman Problems Casey Miller, Albert William Tucker, R. A. Zemlin · Journal of the ACM | Oct 1960 | 2,038 |
| 27 | Distributionally Robust Optimization Under Moment Uncertainty with Application to Data-Driven Problems Erick Delage, Yinyu Ye · Operations Research | 28 Jan 2010 | 1,977 |
| 28 | Robust Optimization of Large-Scale Systems John M. Mulvey, Robert J. Vanderbei, Stavros A. Zenios · Operations Research | Apr 1995 | 1,947 |
| 29 | Application of multi-criteria decision making to sustainable energy planning—A review Sanjay D. Pohekar, M Ramachandran · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews | 2 Feb 2004 | 1,936 |
| 30 | Recent developments in DEA Lawrence M. Seiford, Robert Thrall · Journal of Econometrics | Oct 1990 | 1,930 |
| 31 | Management Models and Industrial Applications of Linear Programming A. Charnes, William White Cooper · Management Science | Oct 1957 | 1,909 |
| 32 | The Location of Emergency Service Facilities Constantine Toregas, Ralph W. Swain, Charles ReVelle et al. · Operations Research | Oct 1971 | 1,856 |
| 33 | Robust solutions of uncertain linear programs Aharon Ben‐Tal, Arkadi S. Nemirovski · Operations Research Letters | Aug 1999 | 1,855 |
| 34 | Effective implementation of the ε-constraint method in Multi-Objective Mathematical Programming problems George Mavrotas · Applied Mathematics and Computation | 26 Mar 2009 | 1,840 |
| 35 | The weighted sum method for multi-objective optimization: new insights R. Timothy Marler, Jasbir Singh Arora · Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization | 11 Dec 2009 | 1,839 |
| 36 | Solving two-stage robust optimization problems using a column-and-constraint generation method Bo Zeng, Long Zhao · Operations Research Letters | 3 Jun 2013 | 1,827 |
| 37 | Technical Note—Convex Programming with Set-Inclusive Constraints and Applications to Inexact Linear Programming A. L. Soyster · Operations Research | Oct 1973 | 1,812 |
| 38 | Nonlinear Programming Mahmut Parlar · Birkhäuser Boston eBooks | 2000 | 1,762 |
| 39 | The assignment game I: The core Lloyd S. Shapley, Martín Shubik · International Journal of Game Theory | Dec 1971 | 1,737 |
| 40 | Foundations of data envelopment analysis for Pareto-Koopmans efficient empirical production functions A. Charnes, William White Cooper, Boaz Golany et al. · Journal of Econometrics | Oct 1985 | 1,729 |
| 41 | Best-worst multi-criteria decision-making method: Some properties and a linear model Jafar Rezaei · Omega | 15 Dec 2015 | 1,717 |
| 42 | Extended VIKOR method in comparison with outranking methods Serafim C. Opricovic, Gwo‐Hshiung Tzeng · European Journal of Operational Research | 14 Mar 2006 | 1,684 |
| 43 | Introduction to Stochastic Programming J M Wilson · Journal of the Operational Research Society | Aug 1998 | 1,670 |
| 44 | Vague sets Wen-Bing Gau, Daniel J. Buehrer · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics | 1993 | 1,648 |
| 45 | Hesitant fuzzy information aggregation in decision making Meimei Xia, Zeshui Xu · International Journal of Approximate Reasoning | 18 Sep 2010 | 1,606 |
| 46 | An application procedure for DEA Boaz Golany, Yaakov Roll · Omega | 1989 | 1,566 |
| 47 | A multi-criteria intuitionistic fuzzy group decision making for supplier selection with TOPSIS method Fatih Emre Boran, Serkan Genç, Mustafa Kurt et al. · Expert Systems with Applications | 21 Mar 2009 | 1,510 |
| 48 | Modeling undesirable factors in efficiency evaluation Lawrence M. Seiford, Joe Zhu · European Journal of Operational Research | Oct 2002 | 1,465 |
| 49 | An outer-approximation algorithm for a class of mixed-integer nonlinear programs Marco A. Durán, Ignacio E. Grossmann · Mathematical Programming | Oct 1986 | 1,456 |
| 50 | An overview of bilevel optimization Benoît Colson, Patrice Marcotte, Gilles Savard · Annals of Operations Research | 20 Apr 2007 | 1,452 |
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