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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A faster fully polynomial time approximation scheme for proportionate flow shop scheduling with step-deteriorating processing times	41
Robust personnel rostering: How accurate should absenteeism predictions be?	23
A quest for a fair schedule: The International Young Physicists’ Tournament	16
Flow shops with reentry: The total weighted completion time objective	13
A graphical evaluation and review technique for scheduling construction projects	12
Real-world university course timetabling at the International Timetabling Competition 2019	11
Optimal energy scheduling under time-of-use tariffs	10
Scheduling of Earth observing satellites using distributed constraint optimization	9
Approximation algorithms for scheduling monotonic moldable tasks on multiple platforms	9
Preface: the practice and theory of automated timetabling (2022)	9
Scheduling with non-renewable resources: minimizing the sum of completion times	8
Complexity of scheduling few types of jobs on related and unrelated machines	8
Designing a long-term master surgical timetable: a case study in balancing post-operative ward bed demand and minimizing changes in surgical schedules	8
Resource leveling with subcontracting: algorithms and complexity	7
A cut-and-branch algorithm for the external candidates examination scheduling problem	7
Task assignments with rotations and flexible shift starts to improve demand coverage and staff satisfaction in healthcare	7
Well-behaved online load balancing against strategic jobs	7
In memoriam Gerhard Woeginger	7
An improved approximation algorithm for a scheduling problem with transporter coordination	7
An exact solution with an improved running time for the routing flow shop problem with two machines	6
A hybrid local search algorithm for the continuous energy-constrained scheduling problem	6
Selection hyper-heuristics and job shop scheduling problems: How does instance size influence performance?	6
Hybrid-sched: a QoS adaptive offline–online scheduler for real-time tasks on multi-cores	6
Continuity of care in home health care scheduling: a rolling horizon approach	5
A note on the shifting bottleneck procedure for job shop scheduling	5

Mixed-model moving assembly line material placement optimization for a shorter time-dependent worker walking time	5
A study of different preemption types to facilitate the recovery of personnel task schedules	5
A hybrid approach for the dynamic flexible job shop scheduling problem considering machine failures	5
The price of anarchy for a berth allocation game	5
Minimizing the expected waiting time of emergency jobs	5
Scheduling cool jobs when processing heats them	5
On variants of a load-balancing problem with unit-load jobs	5
Serial batching to minimize the weighted number of tardy jobs	5
Online integrated production–transportation in a make-to-order environment	5
A fix-and-optimize heuristic for the ITC2021 sports timetabling problem	5
Simulated annealing with penalization for university course timetabling	4
Semi-online models for cardinality constrained bin packing	4
Scheduling of e-commerce packaging machines: blocking machines and their impact on the performance–waste tradeoff	4
A parallel ruin and recreate heuristic for personnel scheduling in a flexible working environment	4
Exact methods for the time frame rostering problem in the context of tram driver rostering	4
Equitable scheduling on a single machine	4
A multivariate complexity analysis of the material consumption scheduling problem	4
Scheduling web banner advertisements with conflicts and time windows: a column generation-based solution approach	3
A Mission planning algorithm inspired by temporal difference learning for minimizing Makespan	3
Network routing on regular digraphs and their line graphs	3
Scheduling with periodic availability constraints to minimize makespan	3
Scheduling the repair and replacement of individual components in operating systems: a bi-objective mathematical optimization model	3
Scheduling to maximize the weighted number of on-time jobs on parallel machines with bounded job-rejection	3
Advances in the practice and theory of automated timetabling	3
Limited integrated production scheduling and vehicle routing in the steel industry	3
Sustainable scheduling for a flexible job shop considering batch processing and batch transportation strategies	3
Single machine rescheduling for new orders with maximum and total time disruption constraints	3
Joint replenishment meets scheduling	3
Maximizing barrier coverage lifetime with static sensors	3
Scheduling periodic messages on a shared link without buffering	3
A buffer allocation evolutionary algorithm for resource-constrained projects with activity clusters	3
Recoverable robust single machine scheduling with polyhedral uncertainty	3
Single-machine and flow-shop scheduling with supporting tasks in a nested structure	2
Learning to enumerate shifts for large-scale flexible personnel scheduling problems	2
Resource leveling: complexity of a unit execution time two-processor scheduling variant and related problems	2
Exact algorithms and approximation schemes for proportionate flow shop scheduling with step-deteriorating processing times	2
Preemptive scheduling of parallel jobs of two sizes with controllable processing times	2
Graph representation of the fixed route dial-a-ride problem	2
Polynomial-time solutions for minimizing total load on unrelated machines with position-dependent processing times and rate-modifying activities	2
Scheduling a pick and place packaging line	2
A constructive branch-and-bound algorithm for the project duration problem with partially renewable resources and general temporal constraints	2
Single-machine two-agent scheduling with a rate-modifying activity and weighted due-date-related functions	2
Mathematical challenges in scheduling theory	2
A polynomial-time dynamic programming algorithm for an optimal picking problem in automated warehouses	2
Special Issue on papers from the 2019 Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems	1
Minimizing the earliness–tardiness for the customer order scheduling problem in a dedicated machine environment	1
Block-based state-expanded network models for multi-activity shift scheduling	1
Fixed-parameter tractability of scheduling dependent typed tasks subject to release times and deadlines	1
Investigating constraint programming and hybrid methods for real world industrial test laboratory scheduling	1
The (a)social exam invigilator assignment problem	1

Scheduling a single machine with multiple due dates per job	1
The preemptive resource allocation problem	1
A review and classification of scheduling objectives in unpaced flow shops for discrete manufacturing	1
Lower bounds for online scheduling on four processors	1
Editorial: Journal of Scheduling (2023)	1
Tight approximation bounds for the LPT rule applied to identical parallel machines with small jobs	1
Packing-based branch-and-bound for discrete malleable task scheduling	1
Integrated break and carryover effect minimization	1
A parallelized matheuristic for the International Timetabling Competition 2019	1
Exact and metaheuristic methods for a real-world examination timetabling problem	1
Local search and trajectory metaheuristics for the flexible job shop scheduling problem with nonlinear routes and position-based learning	1
A solution framework for multi-skilled project scheduling problems with hierarchical skills	1
Quick and situ-aware spatiotemporal scheduling for shipbuilding manufacturing	1
Minimizing the maximum late work for a single-machine scheduling problem with flexible maintenance activities	1
A scheduling game on parallel batch machines with setup cost	1
Approximating weighted completion time via stronger negative correlation	1
Multiprocessor scheduling with testing: improved online algorithms and numerical experiments	1