Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling
Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling is a research topic within Management Science and Operations Research. Science Explorer counts 4.5k research works in it since 1962. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the challenges and techniques for project scheduling under uncertainty and resource constraints. It covers topics such as resource-constrained project scheduling, optimization using metaheuristics, multi-mode scheduling, genetic algorithms, critical chain scheduling, stochastic analysis, time-cost trade-off, and various scheduling heuristics.
- Project Scheduling
- Resource-Constrained
- Optimization
- Metaheuristics
- Multi-Mode
- Genetic Algorithm
- Critical Chain
- Stochastic
- Time-Cost Trade-Off
- Scheduling Heuristics
- Research works
- 4.5k fractional, since 1962
- In the world top 10%
- 459 per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 10.2% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
- +29% the tick is no change
- Largest producer
China
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Which countries lead Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling research?
By volume, China and India publish the most (307 and 77 works in 2022-now).
India
Indonesia
Russia
GermanyHow concentrated that is
The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling research?
By volume in 2022-now, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City publishes the most Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling research, followed by Islamic Azad University, Tehran and Ghent University.
By volume, 2022-now
- 1
Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam
16 works
- 2
Islamic Azad University, Tehran
Iran
12 works
- 3
Ghent University
Belgium
10 works
- 4
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
France
10 works
- 5
University of Alberta
Canada
7 works
- 6
North China Electric Power UniversityChina
7 works
- 7
Karadeniz Technical University
Türkiye
7 works
- 8
Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina
7 works
- 9
Tongji UniversityChina
6 works
- 10
Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina
6 works
Who are the leading researchers in Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling include Richard C. Thompson, Witold Pedrycz and A. Charnes.
- 1
Richard C. Thompson
United Kingdom
116k citations
- 2
Witold Pedrycz
Canada
95k citations
- 3
A. Charnes
United States
80k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling research done?
The largest centres of Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tehran (Iran), Shanghai (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tehran.
Largest cities, 2022-now
Where it is the local speciality
- TehranIR · 30.5 works5.4×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling?
Among universities, judged by research, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Ghent University and Islamic Azad University, Tehran score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam |
92.0 | 20.6% | 38.3× | 16 | +408.9% |
| 2 | Ghent UniversityBelgium |
40.8 | 12.8% | 13.5× | 10 | +73.9% |
| 3 | Islamic Azad University, TehranIran |
12.3 | 9.4% | 7.6× | 12 | -42.1% |
Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.
Every institution in Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling, country by countryIs Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling research growing?
Output in 2022-2025 was 29% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling.
The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
Its share of all research
Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0029% in 2024.
Fractional works of Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.
How much of it reaches the world top 10%
Year by year.
Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.
Which topics inside it are moving
Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.
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