---
title: "CVRPLIB: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 13 archived papers mentioned CVRPLIB in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2025 (2)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cvrplib
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cvrplib.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 13 archived papers mentioned CVRPLIB in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2025 (2). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# CVRPLIB

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/2.md)

Standard problem instances for routing, scheduling and integer programming, and test functions for metaheuristics.

- data category: Optimization benchmark instances
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: CVRPLIB

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Optimization benchmark instances datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/optimization-benchmark-instances.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 13 archived papers mentioned CVRPLIB in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2025 (2).
- No paper of the tracked journals mentioned CVRPLIB in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), CVRPLIB was mentioned in 14 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (9) and AI (5).
- 6 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were HEC Montréal (2), Jilin University (2) and Nanyang Technological University (2).
- The journals publishing most of them were Computers & Operations Research (2), Neural Networks (2) and Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review (2).
- The most-cited of them is “Learning for routing: A guided review of recent developments and future directions” (Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review, 2025), with 19 citations.
- Papers use CVRPLIB most often with TSPLIB (5) and Taillard instances (4); it has 2 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.

## Mentions over 36 months

*Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)*

| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 1 | 6 | 6 | 13 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | 2 |
| 2 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2 |
| 3 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2 |
| 4 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 1 |
| 5 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 1 |
| 6 | [Computational Optimization and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-optimization-and-applications.md) | 1 |
| 7 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Journal of Heuristics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-heuristics.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [Swarm and Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/swarm-and-evolutionary-computation.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | HEC Montréal | 2 |
| 2 | [Jilin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/jilin-university.md) | 2 |
| 3 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 2 |
| 4 | Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology | 1 |
| 5 | [Cardiff University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/cardiff-university.md) | 1 |
| 6 | Chalmers University of Technology | 1 |
| 7 | Duke Kunshan University | 1 |
| 8 | [Eindhoven University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/eindhoven-university-of-technology.md) | 1 |
| 9 | Joint NTU-UBC Research Centre of Excellence in Active Living for the Elderly | 1 |
| 10 | Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 4 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 3 |
| 3 | Canada | 2 |
| 4 | Singapore | 2 |
| 5 | United Arab Emirates | 1 |
| 6 | Bangladesh | 1 |
| 7 | Germany | 1 |
| 8 | Spain | 1 |
| 9 | Italy | 1 |
| 10 | Japan | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [vehicle routing](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/vehicle-routing.md) | 6 |
| 2 | capacitated vehicle routing problem | 4 |
| 3 | [combinatorial optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/combinatorial-optimization.md) | 4 |
| 4 | [reinforcement learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/reinforcement-learning.md) | 4 |
| 5 | [metaheuristic optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/metaheuristic-optimization.md) | 3 |
| 6 | traveling salesman problem | 3 |
| 7 | local search | 2 |
| 8 | [mixed integer programming](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mixed-integer-programming.md) | 2 |
| 9 | pruning techniques | 2 |
| 10 | vehicle routing problem with time windows | 2 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 | 1.2 | [Learning for routing: A guided review of recent developments and future directions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2025.104278) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2025-07-15 | Fangting Zhou, Attila Lischka, Balaźs Kulcsár et al. |
| 2 | 13 | 0.4 | [Routing one million customers in a handful of minutes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2024.106562) | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | 2024-02-01 | Luca Accorsi, Daniele Vigo |
| 3 | 13 | 0.7 | [Improving generalization of neural Vehicle Routing Problem solvers through the lens of model architecture](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2025.107380) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2025-03-16 | Yubin Xiao, Di Wang, Xuan Wu et al. |
| 4 | 13 | 1.0 | [Decompose-route-improve framework for solving large-scale vehicle routing problems with time windows](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2025.104409) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2025-09-16 | Christoph Kerscher, Stefan Minner |
| 5 | 13 | 1.0 | [GTG-ACO: Graph Transformer Guided Ant Colony Optimization for learning heuristics and pheromone dynamics for combinatorial optimization](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2025.102147) | [Swarm and Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/swarm-and-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2025-09-17 | Abrar Rahman Abir, Muhammad Ali Nayeem, M. Sohel Rahman et al. |

## Used together with

Papers use CVRPLIB most often with TSPLIB (5) and Taillard instances (4); it has 2 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.

*What papers use CVRPLIB together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [TSPLIB](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/tsplib.md) | Dataset | 5 | 208.4 |
| [Taillard instances](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/taillard-instances.md) | Dataset | 4 | 127.7 |

The whole network: https://scholar4ai.com/code/network.md

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). CVRPLIB. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cvrplib

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-cvrplib,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {CVRPLIB},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cvrplib}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).