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Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions

Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions is a research topic within Management Science and Operations Research. Science Explorer counts 8.5k research works in it since 1952. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the optimization of staff scheduling and rostering, including topics such as nurse rostering, timetabling, metaheuristics, graph coloring, personnel scheduling, and workforce planning. The papers explore various algorithms and models to efficiently allocate and schedule staff in different domains, aiming to minimize costs and improve operational efficiency.

  • Scheduling
  • Rostering
  • Timetabling
  • Nurse Rostering
  • Metaheuristics
  • Graph Coloring
  • Personnel Scheduling
  • Workforce Planning
  • Shift Scheduling
  • Optimization
Research works
8.5k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
875
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+16%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions

Which countries lead Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (256 and 148 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 256 works
  2. 2 India 148 works
  3. 3 United States 145 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 115 works
  5. 5 Nigeria 103 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 76 works
  7. 7 France 58 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 43 works
  9. 9 Germany 39 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 38 works

How 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.

China: 25.0%India: 14.5%United States: 14.2%Indonesia: 11.3%6 others listed: 35.0%25%largest
China256 · 25.0%India148 · 14.5%United States145 · 14.2%Indonesia115 · 11.3%6 others listed357 · 35.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions research, followed by Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology and Ghent University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 15 works
  2. 2 Sepuluh Nopember Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 9 works
  3. 3 Ghent UniversityBelgium 7 works
  4. 4 Telkom UniversityIndonesia 7 works
  5. 5 TU WienAustria 6 works
  6. 6 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 6 works
  7. 7 Université d'AngersFrance 6 works
  8. 8 Kenyatta UniversityKenya 6 works
  9. 9 Delta State UniversityNigeria 6 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 6 works

Who are the leading researchers in Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions include Kalyanmoy Deb, Seyedali Mirjalili and Philip S. Yu.

  1. 1 Kalyanmoy Deb United States 171k citations
  2. 2 Seyedali Mirjalili Australia 154k citations
  3. 3 Philip S. Yu United States 141k citations
  4. 4 Thomas L. Saaty United States 122k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions?

The most cited paper in Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions is "The Hungarian method for the assignment problem" (Harold William Kuhn, 1955), with 13,017 citations. Next come "TSPLIB—A Traveling Salesman Problem Library" (2,638) and "Theoretical and numerical constraint-handling techniques used with evolutionary algorithms: a survey of the state of the art" (2,343).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Hungarian method for the assignment problem Harold William Kuhn · Naval Research Logistics Quarterly Mar 1955 13,017
2 TSPLIB—A Traveling Salesman Problem Library Gerhard Reinelt · INFORMS journal on computing Nov 1991 2,638
3 Theoretical and numerical constraint-handling techniques used with evolutionary algorithms: a survey of the state of the art Carlos A. Coello Coello · Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 2002 2,343
4 An Automatic Method for Solving Discrete Programming Problems A. H. Land, Alison G. Doig Book chapter 6 Nov 2009 2,014
5 A Decision Method for Elementary Algebra and Geometry Alfred Tarski · Texts & monographs in symbolic computation/Texts and monographs in symbolic computation Book chapterOpen access 1998 1,689
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Where is Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions research done?

The largest centres of Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Wuhan (China) and Istanbul (Türkiye).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 40 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 22 works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 17 works
  4. 4 IstanbulTürkiye 17 works
  5. 5 ChennaiIndia 16 works
  6. 6 BandungIndonesia 15 works
  7. 7 NairobiKenya 15 works
  8. 8 JakartaIndonesia 15 works
  9. 9 NanjingChina 14 works
  10. 10 SurabayaIndonesia 14 works
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Where is the best place to study Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions?

Among universities, judged by research, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology 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.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Sepuluh Nopember Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 1.88.4%14.8×9 -12.9%

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 Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions, country by country

Is Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions.

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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 Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0076% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions0.0073% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions 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.

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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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