OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Scheduling is 4. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Scheduling computations with provably low synchronization overheads	27
The flexibility of home away pattern sets	26
An efficient model-based branch-and-price algorithm for unrelated-parallel machine batching and scheduling problems	21
A graphical evaluation and review technique for scheduling construction projects	19
A quest for a fair schedule: The International Young Physicists’ Tournament	18
Real-world university course timetabling at the International Timetabling Competition 2019	17
Single-machine scheduling with resource-dependent processing times and multiple unavailability periods	17
Complexity of scheduling few types of jobs on related and unrelated machines	13
Scheduling of Earth observing satellites using distributed constraint optimization	13
Preface: the practice and theory of automated timetabling (2022)	12
Task assignments with rotations and flexible shift starts to improve demand coverage and staff satisfaction in healthcare	10
Approximation algorithms for scheduling monotonic moldable tasks on multiple platforms	10
In memoriam Gerhard Woeginger	8
An improved approximation algorithm for a scheduling problem with transporter coordination	8
Scheduling with non-renewable resources: minimizing the sum of completion times	8
Well-behaved online load balancing against strategic jobs	7
A hybrid local search algorithm for the continuous energy-constrained scheduling problem	7
Hybrid-sched: a QoS adaptive offline–online scheduler for real-time tasks on multi-cores	7
An exact solution with an improved running time for the routing flow shop problem with two machines	7
Introducing UniCorT: an iterative university course timetabling tool with MaxSAT	7
A cut-and-branch algorithm for the external candidates examination scheduling problem	7
Selection hyper-heuristics and job shop scheduling problems: How does instance size influence performance?	7
A fix-and-optimize heuristic for the ITC2021 sports timetabling problem	6
Plant shutdown maintenance workforce team assignment and job scheduling	6
Serial batching to minimize the weighted number of tardy jobs	6

Routing two stacking cranes with predetermined container sequences	5
Project scheduling in a lean environment to maximize value and minimize overruns	5
A reinforcement learning algorithm for rescheduling preempted tasks in fog nodes	5
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
A note on the shifting bottleneck procedure for job shop scheduling	5
Online scheduling to minimize total weighted (modified) earliness and tardiness cost	5
On variants of a load-balancing problem with unit-load jobs	5
Minimizing the expected waiting time of emergency jobs	5
Equitable scheduling on a single machine	4
Tabu search for a parallel-machine scheduling problem with periodic maintenance, job rejection and weighted sum of completion times	4
Calibrations scheduling with arbitrary lengths and activation length	4
A parallel ruin and recreate heuristic for personnel scheduling in a flexible working environment	4
Scheduling of e-commerce packaging machines: blocking machines and their impact on the performance–waste tradeoff	4
The price of anarchy for a berth allocation game	4
A multivariate complexity analysis of the material consumption scheduling problem	4
Scheduling to maximize the weighted number of on-time jobs on parallel machines with bounded job-rejection	4
Mixed-model moving assembly line material placement optimization for a shorter time-dependent worker walking time	4
Optimizing rest times and differences in games played: an iterative two-phase approach	4
Simulated annealing with penalization for university course timetabling	4
Joint replenishment meets scheduling	4