---
title: "OR-Library: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 7 archived papers mentioned OR-Library in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Mar 2026 (2)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/or-library
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/or-library.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 7 archived papers mentioned OR-Library in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Mar 2026 (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
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---

# OR-Library

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/5.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: OR-Library instances, OR-Library benchmark, OR-Library test, OR-Library problems, OR-Library, ORLib

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, 7 archived papers mentioned OR-Library in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Mar 2026 (2).
- No paper of the tracked journals mentioned OR-Library in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), OR-Library was mentioned in 10 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (7) and AI (3).
- 2 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2), Arizona State University (1) and Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (1).
- The journals publishing most of them were Computers & Operations Research (2), Mathematical Programming (1) and Journal of Automated Reasoning (1).
- The most-cited of them is “An integrated network design and scheduling problem for network recovery and emergency response” (Operations Research Perspectives, 2018), with 50 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 |

## 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 |

## 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 | [Mathematical Programming](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming.md) | 1 |
| 3 | [Journal of Automated Reasoning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-automated-reasoning.md) | 1 |
| 4 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 1 |
| 5 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 1 |
| 6 | [Optimization and Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/optimization-and-engineering.md) | 1 |
| 7 | [Optimization Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/optimization-letters.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam.md) | 2 |
| 2 | [Arizona State University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/arizona-state-university.md) | 1 |
| 3 | Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica | 1 |
| 4 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 1 |
| 5 | Chuo University | 1 |
| 6 | Ewha Womans University | 1 |
| 7 | Institute of Software | 1 |
| 8 | Karabük University | 1 |
| 9 | [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/massachusetts-institute-of-technology.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [Microsoft Research Asia (China)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/microsoft-research-asia-china.md) | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 4 |
| 2 | Germany | 2 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 2 |
| 4 | China | 1 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 1 |
| 6 | Japan | 1 |
| 7 | South Korea | 1 |
| 8 | Turkey | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | AC optimal power flow | 1 |
| 2 | API discovery | 1 |
| 3 | Agda | 1 |
| 4 | Coq | 1 |
| 5 | DC optimal power flow | 1 |
| 6 | Isabelle | 1 |
| 7 | [K-means clustering](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/k-means-clustering.md) | 1 |
| 8 | Mathlib | 1 |
| 9 | NP-hard combinatorial optimization | 1 |
| 10 | QAPLIB | 1 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 | 0.5 | [An integrated network design and scheduling problem for network recovery and emergency response](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orp.2018.08.001) | [Operations Research Perspectives](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-perspectives.md) | 2018-01-01 | Suzan Iloglu, Laura A. Albert |
| 2 | 21 | 0.5 | [An adaptive parallel evolutionary algorithm for solving the uncapacitated facility location problem](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.119956) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2023-03-23 | Emrullah Sonuç, Ender Özcan |
| 3 | 10 | 0.6 | [Private-library-oriented code generation with large language models](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2025.113934) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2025-07-02 | Daoguang Zan, Bei Chen, Yongshun Gong et al. |
| 4 | 7 | 0.1 | [Cooperative multiobjective optimization with bounds on objective functions](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10898-020-00946-4) | [Journal of Global Optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-global-optimization.md) | 2020-09-19 | Ignacy Kaliszewski, Janusz Miroforidis |
| 5 | 2 | 0.1 | [Use and Abuse of Instance Parameters in the Lean Mathematical Library](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10817-024-09712-7) | [Journal of Automated Reasoning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-automated-reasoning.md) | 2024-12-12 | Anne Baanen |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). OR-Library. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/or-library

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