Nederlandse Spoorwegen
Papers in the tracked journals with an author at Nederlandse Spoorwegen: per year and category, where they are published, the institutions its researchers write with, and its most-cited papers. A paper counts as corporate when at least one of its authors is affiliated with an institution that OpenAlex classifies as a company; it counts once for each company among its authors' affiliations. Universities are the institutions OpenAlex classifies as education. Also as Markdown.
Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Nederlandse Spoorwegen took part in 35 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (33), tourism and hospitality (1) and information systems (1).
- 3 of them were published in 2025, against 5 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Erasmus University Rotterdam (7), Delft University of Technology (4) and Beijing Jiaotong University (1).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management (4), Transportation Research Part B Methodological (2) and Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice (2).
- The most-cited of them is “Passenger oriented railway disruption management by adapting timetables and rolling stock schedules” (Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies, 2017), with 114 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 28 of its papers 176 times; 97% of those links came from papers with a university author and 7% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 66 times, 23% of them papers with a company author.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Nederlandse Spoorwegen has 391 works with 15,313 citations (h-index 67).
- The tracked journals hold 32 of its 174 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (18.4%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Railway Systems and Energy Efficiency (152), Transportation Planning and Optimization (113) and Railway Engineering and Dynamics (55).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations Research | 5 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management | 4 |
| 2 | Transportation Research Part B Methodological | 2 |
| 3 | Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice | 2 |
| 4 | European Journal of Operational Research | 1 |
| 5 | Public Transport | 1 |
| 6 | Operations Research Forum | 1 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | 7 |
| 2 | Delft University of Technology | 4 |
| 3 | Beijing Jiaotong University | 1 |
| 4 | Eindhoven University of Technology | 1 |
| 5 | Tilburg University | 1 |
| 6 | Utrecht University | 1 |
| 7 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | 1 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Netherlands | 11 |
| 2 | China | 1 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch railway network | 3 |
| 2 | Netherlands Railways | 3 |
| 3 | column generation heuristic | 2 |
| 4 | latent class choice model | 2 |
| 5 | train scheduling | 2 |
| 6 | COVID-19 risk perception | 1 |
| 7 | Dutch railways | 1 |
| 8 | Lagrangian relaxation | 1 |
| 9 | NS | 1 |
| 10 | analytical solution | 1 |
Most-cited papers#
Who cites its research#
| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beijing Jiaotong University | University | China | 51 |
| 2 | Delft University of Technology | University | Netherlands | 21 |
| 3 | Roma Tre University | University | Italy | 15 |
| 4 | ETH Zurich | University | Switzerland | 10 |
| 5 | Hefei University of Technology | University | China | 8 |
| 6 | Southwest Jiaotong University | University | China | 8 |
| 7 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | University | Netherlands | 8 |
| 8 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | University | Hong Kong | 7 |
| 9 | Dalian University of Technology | University | China | 7 |
What its papers cite#
| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delft University of Technology | University | Netherlands | 14 |
| 2 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | University | Netherlands | 11 |
| 3 | Beijing Jiaotong University | University | China | 6 |
| 4 | Technical University of Denmark | University | Denmark | 6 |
| 5 | Polytechnique Montréal | University | Canada | 5 |
| 6 | Tilburg University | University | Netherlands | 4 |
| 7 | Roma Tre University | University | Italy | 3 |
| 8 | Zuse Institute Berlin | Research facility | Germany | 3 |
| 9 | Group for Research in Decision Analysis | Research facility | Canada | 3 |
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Company |
| Location | Utrecht, Netherlands |
| Also known as | NS, Dutch Railways |
| Works in OpenAlex | 391 |
| Citations | 15,313 |
| h-index | 67 |
| i10-index | 234 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 2.59 |
| Website | www.ns.nl |
| ROR | ror.org/01024mn06 |
| Wikidata | www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23076 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I2802430469 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Railway Systems and Energy Efficiency | Engineering | 152 |
| 2 | Transportation Planning and Optimization | Social Sciences | 113 |
| 3 | Railway Engineering and Dynamics | Engineering | 55 |
| 4 | Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods | Engineering | 44 |
| 5 | Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions | Decision Sciences | 44 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 9 | 740 | 3 | 33.3% |
| 2025 | 20 | 1,044 | 3 | 15.0% |
| 2024 | 14 | 919 | 4 | 28.6% |
| 2023 | 14 | 1,001 | 1 | 7.1% |
| 2022 | 13 | 898 | 4 | 30.8% |
| 2021 | 16 | 920 | 4 | 25.0% |
| 2020 | 26 | 751 | 6 | 23.1% |
| 2019 | 23 | 584 | 4 | 17.4% |
| 2018 | 25 | 530 | 1 | 4.0% |
| 2017 | 23 | 504 | 5 | 21.7% |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Nederlandse Spoorwegen. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/companies/nederlandse-spoorwegen
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title = {Nederlandse Spoorwegen},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/companies/nederlandse-spoorwegen}},
urldate = {2026-11-05},
note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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