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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Heuristics 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
An integrated learning and progressive hedging matheuristic for stochastic network design problem	24
Mathematical models and solving methods for diversity and equity optimization	18
Genetic programming hyper-heuristic for evolving a maintenance policy for wind farms	18
Mathematical formulations and a Relax-and-Fix heuristic algorithm for capacitated reliable fixed-charge facility location problems	17
Improving state-of-the-art vertex sorting algorithms to compute the maximum common induced subgraph	14
A hybrid iterated local search matheuristic for large-scale single source capacitated facility location problems	10
Fast constructive heuristics for the uncapacitated inventory routing problem	10
Finding fixed-length circuits and cycles in undirected edge-weighted graphs: an application with street networks	10
solQHealer: Quantum Procedures for Rendering Infeasible Solutions Feasible: A Proof of Concept with the Maximum Independent Set Problem and 3-SAT	9
Intersections management for autonomous vehicles: a heuristic approach	9
An efficient backtracking heuristic for the resource allocation problem with compatibility and exclusivity constraints	8
Combining hybrid genetic search with ruin-and-recreate for solving the capacitated vehicle routing problem	8
Definition of Region of Interest in multiobjective problems using hyperellipsoids	7
Minimax regret makespan scheduling with interval release dates on unrelated machines	7
A MILP model and a heuristic algorithm for post-disaster connectivity problem with heterogeneous vehicles	6
Ride matching and vehicle routing for on-demand mobility services	6
A column generation-based heuristic to solve the integrated planning, scheduling, yard allocation and berth allocation problem in bulk ports	6
A matheuristic for design and dispatch of a utility-connected distributed energy system	4
Incomplete MaxSAT approaches for combinatorial testing	4
A heuristic search based on diversity for solving combinatorial problems	4
A Tabu-Bi-label hybridized branch and price algorithm for just-in-time material handling scheduling problems of mixed-model assembly lines with electric vehicle recharging requirements	4
An adaptative multi-objective scatter search for solving the dynamic bin packing problem	4
Lagrangian-based heuristics for production planning with perishable products, scarce resources, and sequence-dependent setup times	4
Tree search hyper-heuristic with application to combinatorial optimization	3
Variable neighborhood search for healthcare providers rostering: a comprehensive review and future research agenda	3

Stochastic capacitated dispersion problems in disaster preparedness for mass casualty incident	3
Exploiting user-supplied Decompositions inside Heuristics	3
A Q-learning-based algorithm for the block relocation problem	3
Selector: Ensemble-Based Automated Algorithm Configuration	3
On the emerging potential of quantum annealing hardware for combinatorial optimization	3
30 years of the Journal of Heuristics: a bibliometric analysis	3
A local branching-based solution for the multi-period cutting stock problem with tardiness, earliness, and setup costs	3
An effective population-based approach for the partial set covering problem	3
A new, efficient approach to speed up local search by estimating the solution quality: an application to stochastic, parallel machine scheduling	3
A memetic algorithm for the flexible periodic vehicle routing problem	3
Correction to: An integrated ILS-VND strategy for solving the knapsack problem with forfeits	2
The ALNS metaheuristic for the transmission maintenance scheduling	2
Assignment of orthologous genes in unbalanced genomes using cycle packing of adjacency graphs	2
A reliability-extended simheuristic for the sustainable vehicle routing problem with stochastic travel times and demands	2
Self-adaptive heuristic algorithms for the dynamic and stochastic orienteering problem in autonomous transportation system	2
Data structures for speeding up Tabu Search when solving sparse quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problems	2
A large-scale neighborhood search algorithm for multi-activity tour scheduling problems	2
Breakout local search for the cyclic cutwidth minimization problem	2
Minimizing total completion time in large-sized pharmaceutical quality control scheduling	2
Heuristics for the run-length encoded Burrows–Wheeler transform alphabet ordering problem	1
Interpretability of rectangle packing solutions with Monte Carlo tree search	1
A systematic approach to parameter optimization and its application to flight schedule simulation software	1
On robust vs fast solving of qualitative constraints	1
Modeling and evolutionary algorithm for solving a multi-depot mixed vehicle routing problem with uncertain travel times	1
Using state-space shortest-path heuristics to solve the long-haul point-to-point vehicle routing and driver scheduling problem subject to hours-of-service regulatory constraints	1
Resource-constrained multi-stage processing and assembly scheduling with sequential and batch operations	1
A new heuristic for finding verifiable k-vertex-critical subgraphs	1
Efficient solution of the number partitioning problem on a quantum annealer: a hybrid quantum-classical decomposition approach	1
Fixed set search applied to the multi-objective minimum weighted vertex cover problem	1
Heuristic algorithm for integrated ship scheduling, routing and stowage problem in multi-vessel roll-on/roll-off shipping	1
Learning fine-grained search space pruning and heuristics for combinatorial optimization	1
A memetic algorithm for the inventory routing problem	1
A two-phase hybrid evolutionary algorithm for solving the bi-objective scheduling multiprocessor tasks on two dedicated processors	1
An efficient scenario penalization matheuristic for a stochastic scheduling problem	1
Solving travelling thief problems using coordination based methods	1
Lower and upper bounds for scheduling energy-consuming tasks with storage resources and piecewise linear costs	1
Weighted iterated local branching for mathematical programming problems with binary variables	1
An iterated local search heuristic for the maximum Intersection of $$k$$-subsets problem	1