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Multi-objective test problems (ZDT, DTLZ, WFG)

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Names searched for: ZDT, DTLZ, WFG test

Key findings#

  • From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 37 archived papers mentioned Multi-objective test problems (ZDT, DTLZ, WFG) in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Dec 2023 (4).
  • Multi-objective test problems (ZDT, DTLZ, WFG) was mentioned in 1 paper in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #165 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
  • By journal category: AI (1).
  • Most of them appeared in Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (1).
  • From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Multi-objective test problems (ZDT, DTLZ, WFG) was mentioned in 95 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (85), operations research (8) and economics (2).
  • 7 of them were published in 2025, against 3 in 2017.
  • Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Taiyuan University of Science and Technology (5), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (2) and Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (2).
  • The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (8), Expert Systems with Applications (7) and Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (7).
  • The most-cited of them is “A New Hypervolume-Based Evolutionary Algorithm for Many-Objective Optimization” (IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2020), with 141 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)
TrendNov 23–Oct 24Nov 24–Oct 25Nov 25–Oct 2636 months
208937

Papers per year#

2017: 3 papers2018: 10 papers2019: 4 papers2020: 12 papers2021: 8 papers2022: 12 papers2023: 13 papers2024: 18 papers2025: 7 papers2026 (so far): 8 papers
20172026 (so far)
Papers per publication year and category
Category2017201820192020202120222023202420252026 (so far)
AI39412712121466
Operations Research0100101212
Economics0000000200
All categories310412812131878

Where the papers come from#

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#InstitutionPapers
1Taiyuan University of Science and Technology5
2Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique2
3Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional2
4Jilin University2
5Southern University of Science and Technology2
6Swinburne University of Technology2
7Tecnológico Nacional de México2
8Tongji University2
9Torrens University Australia2
10Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila2
Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#CountryPapers
1China24
2United Kingdom5
3Mexico5
4Australia4
5Hong Kong4
6Germany3
7Finland3
8South Korea3
9France2
10India2
Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#KeywordPapers
1multi-objective optimization16
2DTLZ test suite8
3many-objective optimization7
4multi-objective evolutionary algorithms7
5Pareto front6
6ZDT test functions6
7DTLZ benchmark5
8surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms5
9DTLZ test functions4
10MOEA/D4

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#CitationsPer monthTitleJournalPublishedAuthors
11411.7A New Hypervolume-Based Evolutionary Algorithm for Many-Objective OptimizationIEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation2020-01-07Ke Shang, Hisao Ishibuchi
21174.8Diffusion Models, Image Super-Resolution, and Everything: A SurveyIEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems2024-10-29Brian B. Moser, Arundhati S. Shanbhag, Federico Raue et al.
31081.5A novel Whale Optimization Algorithm integrated with Nelder–Mead simplex for multi-objective optimization problemsKnowledge-Based Systems2020-11-28Mohamed Abdel‐Basset, Reda Mohamed, Seyedali Mirjalili
4832.4Hyper-heuristics: A survey and taxonomyComputers & Industrial Engineering2023-12-04Tansel Dökeroğlu, Tayfun Küçükyılmaz, El‐Ghazali Talbi
5611.2An improved NSGA-III algorithm based on distance dominance relation for many-objective optimizationExpert Systems with Applications2022-06-09Qinghua Gu, Qingsong Xu, Xuexian Li

Archive counts by publication year: a paper counts when its title, abstract or keywords name the dataset, or when OpenAlex's full-text search finds it there (searched for the last 30 days' papers and, by a pass over the past years, for older ones). Names added to the list later are looked for in older papers as the archive is read again.

Papers mentioning Multi-objective test problems (ZDT, DTLZ, WFG) in the last 30 days, newest first.
DateTitleJournalAuthorsAffiliations
2026-10-23Thermodynamically governed unified optimisation: Regime dependence across scalar, multimodal, and multiobjective searchSwarm and Evolutionary ComputationKrishnan Batri, G. Geetha, Lakshmi SSharda University
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Scholar4AI. (2026). Multi-objective test problems (ZDT, DTLZ, WFG). Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/multi-objective-test-problems-zdt-dtlz-wfg

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  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/multi-objective-test-problems-zdt-dtlz-wfg}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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