OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Scheduling 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
An efficient model-based branch-and-price algorithm for unrelated-parallel machine batching and scheduling problems	30
The flexibility of home away pattern sets	30
A graphical evaluation and review technique for scheduling construction projects	29
Single-machine scheduling with resource-dependent processing times and multiple unavailability periods	20
A quest for a fair schedule: The International Young Physicists’ Tournament	15
Flow shops with reentry: The total weighted completion time objective	13
Real-world university course timetabling at the International Timetabling Competition 2019	13
Complexity of scheduling few types of jobs on related and unrelated machines	9
Preface: the practice and theory of automated timetabling (2022)	9
Designing a long-term master surgical timetable: a case study in balancing post-operative ward bed demand and minimizing changes in surgical schedules	8
In memoriam Gerhard Woeginger	8
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
Scheduling of Earth observing satellites using distributed constraint optimization	8
Approximation algorithms for scheduling monotonic moldable tasks on multiple platforms	8
Well-behaved online load balancing against strategic jobs	7
An improved approximation algorithm for a scheduling problem with transporter coordination	7
A cut-and-branch algorithm for the external candidates examination scheduling problem	7
A hybrid local search algorithm for the continuous energy-constrained 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
An exact solution with an improved running time for the routing flow shop problem with two machines	6
Hybrid-sched: a QoS adaptive offline–online scheduler for real-time tasks on multi-cores	6
A general scheme for solving a large set of scheduling problems with rejection in FPT time	5
Continuity of care in home health care scheduling: a rolling horizon approach	5

Minimizing the expected waiting time of emergency jobs	5
A hybrid approach for the dynamic flexible job shop scheduling problem considering machine failures	5
Serial batching to minimize the weighted number of tardy jobs	5
Project scheduling in a lean environment to maximize value and minimize overruns	5
On variants of a load-balancing problem with unit-load jobs	5
A fix-and-optimize heuristic for the ITC2021 sports timetabling problem	5
A reinforcement learning algorithm for rescheduling preempted tasks in fog nodes	4
A note on the shifting bottleneck procedure for job shop scheduling	4
Optimizing rest times and differences in games played: an iterative two-phase approach	4
Scheduling to maximize the weighted number of on-time jobs on parallel machines with bounded job-rejection	4
The price of anarchy for a berth allocation game	4
Equitable scheduling on a single machine	4
Scheduling of e-commerce packaging machines: blocking machines and their impact on the performance–waste tradeoff	4
Scheduling web banner advertisements with conflicts and time windows: a column generation-based solution approach	4
Semi-online models for cardinality constrained bin packing	4
Mixed-model moving assembly line material placement optimization for a shorter time-dependent worker walking time	4
A parallel ruin and recreate heuristic for personnel scheduling in a flexible working environment	4
A multivariate complexity analysis of the material consumption scheduling problem	4
Simulated annealing with penalization for university course timetabling	4
Joint replenishment meets scheduling	3
Network routing on regular digraphs and their line graphs	3
A buffer allocation evolutionary algorithm for resource-constrained projects with activity clusters	3
Sustainable scheduling for a flexible job shop considering batch processing and batch transportation strategies	3
Advances in the practice and theory of automated timetabling	3
Limited integrated production scheduling and vehicle routing in the steel industry	3
Scheduling with periodic availability constraints to minimize makespan	3
Recoverable robust single machine scheduling with polyhedral uncertainty	3
Maximizing barrier coverage lifetime with static sensors	3
Scheduling periodic messages on a shared link without buffering	3
An analysis of the parameterized complexity of periodic timetabling	3
A large neighborhood search approach for the paint shop scheduling problem	2
Approximation algorithms for batch scheduling with processing set restrictions	2
Mathematical challenges in scheduling theory	2
A polynomial-time dynamic programming algorithm for an optimal picking problem in automated warehouses	2
Scheduling a pick and place packaging line	2
Preemptive scheduling of parallel jobs of two sizes with controllable processing times	2
A constructive branch-and-bound algorithm for the project duration problem with partially renewable resources and general temporal constraints	2
Scheduling the repair and replacement of individual components in operating systems: a bi-objective mathematical optimization model	2
Single-machine and flow-shop scheduling with supporting tasks in a nested structure	2
Resource leveling: complexity of a unit execution time two-processor scheduling variant and related problems	2
Single-machine two-agent scheduling with a rate-modifying activity and weighted due-date-related functions	2
Exact algorithms and approximation schemes for proportionate flow shop scheduling with step-deteriorating processing times	2
Single machine rescheduling for new orders with maximum and total time disruption constraints	2
Polynomial-time solutions for minimizing total load on unrelated machines with position-dependent processing times and rate-modifying activities	2
Correction to: Broadcasting a file in a communication network	1
More on ordered open end bin packing	1
Block-based state-expanded network models for multi-activity shift scheduling	1
Learning to enumerate shifts for large-scale flexible personnel scheduling problems	1
Scheduling a single machine with multiple due dates per job	1
Tight approximation bounds for the LPT rule applied to identical parallel machines with small jobs	1

Exact and metaheuristic methods for a real-world examination timetabling problem	1
Graph representation of the fixed route dial-a-ride problem	1
Lower bounds for online scheduling on four processors	1
Minimizing the earliness–tardiness for the customer order scheduling problem in a dedicated machine environment	1
Multiprocessor scheduling with testing: improved online algorithms and numerical experiments	1
Fixed-parameter tractability of scheduling dependent typed tasks subject to release times and deadlines	1
Approximating weighted completion time via stronger negative correlation	1
The preemptive resource allocation problem	1
A review and classification of scheduling objectives in unpaced flow shops for discrete manufacturing	1
Quick and situ-aware spatiotemporal scheduling for shipbuilding manufacturing	1
Online algorithms to schedule a proportionate flexible flow shop of batching machines	1
A mixed-integer programming approach for solving university course timetabling problems	1
Special Issue on papers from the 2019 Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems	1
Bi-criteria simulated annealing for the curriculum-based course timetabling problem with robustness approximation	1
A solution framework for multi-skilled project scheduling problems with hierarchical skills	1
Editorial: Journal of Scheduling (2023)	1
Further connections between contract-scheduling and ray-searching problems	1