---
title: "MIPLIB: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 26 archived papers mentioned MIPLIB in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2024 (3)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/miplib
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/miplib.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 26 archived papers mentioned MIPLIB in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2024 (3). (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)
---

# MIPLIB

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/4.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: MIPLIB

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, 26 archived papers mentioned MIPLIB in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2024 (3).
- No paper of the tracked journals mentioned MIPLIB in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), MIPLIB was mentioned in 33 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (30) and AI (3).
- 7 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were RWTH Aachen University (3), Eindhoven University of Technology (2) and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (2).
- The journals publishing most of them were Mathematical Programming Computation (16), Mathematical Programming (6) and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2).
- The most-cited of them is “MIPLIB 2017: data-driven compilation of the 6th mixed-integer programming library” (Mathematical Programming Computation, 2021), with 204 citations.

## 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 10 | 6 | 10 | 26 |

## 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 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 8 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 9 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Mathematical Programming Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming-computation.md) | 16 |
| 2 | [Mathematical Programming](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming.md) | 6 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2 |
| 4 | [Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-optimization-theory-and-applications.md) | 1 |
| 5 | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | 1 |
| 6 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 1 |
| 7 | [Journal of Heuristics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-heuristics.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Operations Research Forum](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-forum.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [RWTH Aachen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/rwth-aachen-university.md) | 3 |
| 2 | [Eindhoven University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/eindhoven-university-of-technology.md) | 2 |
| 3 | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | 2 |
| 4 | [Huawei Technologies (China)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/huawei-technologies-china.md) | 2 |
| 5 | [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/massachusetts-institute-of-technology.md) | 2 |
| 6 | [Technische Universität Berlin](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/technische-universitat-berlin.md) | 2 |
| 7 | [The Ohio State University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-ohio-state-university.md) | 2 |
| 8 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 2 |
| 9 | [University of Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 2 |
| 10 | University of Technology Nuremberg | 2 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Germany | 7 |
| 2 | United States | 6 |
| 3 | China | 5 |
| 4 | Italy | 4 |
| 5 | Canada | 3 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 3 |
| 7 | France | 2 |
| 8 | Norway | 2 |
| 9 | Chile | 1 |
| 10 | United Kingdom | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [mixed-integer linear programming](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mixed-integer-linear-programming.md) | 9 |
| 2 | [mixed integer programming](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mixed-integer-programming.md) | 7 |
| 3 | branch and bound | 5 |
| 4 | cutting planes | 5 |
| 5 | [combinatorial optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/combinatorial-optimization.md) | 4 |
| 6 | linear programming | 4 |
| 7 | primal heuristics | 4 |
| 8 | GPU acceleration | 2 |
| 9 | KKT systems | 2 |
| 10 | MIP solvers | 2 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 204 | 2.9 | [MIPLIB 2017: data-driven compilation of the 6th mixed-integer programming library](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12532-020-00194-3) | [Mathematical Programming Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming-computation.md) | 2021-01-07 | Ambros Gleixner, Gregor Hendel, Gerald Gamrath et al. |
| 2 | 46 | 0.8 | [Adaptive large neighborhood search for mixed integer programming](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12532-021-00209-7) | [Mathematical Programming Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming-computation.md) | 2021-11-08 | Gregor Hendel |
| 3 | 34 | 1.3 | [Machine learning augmented branch and bound for mixed integer linear programming](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10107-024-02130-y) | [Mathematical Programming](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming.md) | 2024-08-22 | Lara Scavuzzo, Karen Aardal, Andrea Lodi et al. |
| 4 | 20 | 0.3 | [A computational status update for exact rational mixed integer programming](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10107-021-01749-5) | [Mathematical Programming](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming.md) | 2022-01-07 | Leon Eifler, Ambros Gleixner |
| 5 | 12 | 0.3 | [Feasibility Jump: an LP-free Lagrangian MIP heuristic](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12532-023-00234-8) | [Mathematical Programming Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming-computation.md) | 2023-03-14 | Bjørnar Luteberget, Giorgio Sartor |

## Cite this page

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

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-miplib,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {MIPLIB},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/miplib}},
  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/).