---
title: "PSPLIB: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 28 archived papers mentioned PSPLIB in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2024 (3)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/psplib
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/psplib.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 28 archived papers mentioned PSPLIB in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 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)
---

# PSPLIB

[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: PSPLIB

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, 28 archived papers mentioned PSPLIB in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2024 (3).
- No paper of the tracked journals mentioned PSPLIB in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), PSPLIB was mentioned in 47 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (41) and AI (6).
- 12 of them were published in 2025, against 1 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (4), Ghent University (4) and University College London (4).
- The journals publishing most of them were Annals of Operations Research (7), European Journal of Operational Research (6) and Computers & Operations Research (5).
- The most-cited of them is “Efficient priority rules for the stochastic resource-constrained project scheduling problem” (European Journal of Operational Research, 2018), with 117 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 8 | 12 | 8 | 28 |

## 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 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 6 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 7 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 7 |
| 2 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 6 |
| 3 | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | 5 |
| 4 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 4 |
| 5 | [Swarm and Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/swarm-and-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2 |
| 6 | [Operations Research Forum](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-forum.md) | 2 |
| 7 | [Journal of Air Transport Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-air-transport-management.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operational-research.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/flexible-services-and-manufacturing-journal.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 4 |
| 2 | [Ghent University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ghent-university.md) | 4 |
| 3 | [University College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-college-london.md) | 4 |
| 4 | Vlerick Business School | 4 |
| 5 | [KU Leuven](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ku-leuven.md) | 3 |
| 6 | [Northwestern Polytechnical University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northwestern-polytechnical-university.md) | 3 |
| 7 | [BI Norwegian Business School](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/bi-norwegian-business-school.md) | 2 |
| 8 | [Huazhong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 2 |
| 9 | INESC TEC | 2 |
| 10 | Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Modélisation et d'Optimisation des Systèmes | 2 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 11 |
| 2 | Belgium | 7 |
| 3 | France | 5 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 5 |
| 5 | Australia | 3 |
| 6 | Iran | 3 |
| 7 | Germany | 2 |
| 8 | Italy | 2 |
| 9 | Norway | 2 |
| 10 | Portugal | 2 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | resource-constrained project scheduling | 11 |
| 2 | PSPLIB | 7 |
| 3 | dispatching rules | 6 |
| 4 | project scheduling | 5 |
| 5 | hyper-heuristics | 4 |
| 6 | [makespan minimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/makespan-minimization.md) | 4 |
| 7 | [sensitivity analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/sensitivity-analysis.md) | 4 |
| 8 | renewable resources | 3 |
| 9 | [resource allocation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/resource-allocation.md) | 3 |
| 10 | bi-objective optimization | 2 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 117 | 1.1 | [Efficient priority rules for the stochastic resource-constrained project scheduling problem](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.04.025) | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 2018-04-19 | Zhi Chen, Erik L. Demeulemeester, Sijun Bai et al. |
| 2 | 83 | 2.4 | [Hyper-heuristics: A survey and taxonomy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2023.109815) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 2023-12-04 | Tansel Dökeroğlu, Tayfun Küçükyılmaz, El‐Ghazali Talbi |
| 3 | 58 | 0.8 | [A hyper-heuristic based ensemble genetic programming approach for stochastic resource constrained project scheduling problem](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.114174) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2020-10-31 | HaoJie Chen, Guofu Ding, Shengfeng Qin et al. |
| 4 | 57 | 0.5 | [An exact composite lower bound strategy for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2018.01.017) | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | 2018-02-02 | José Coelho, Mario Vanhoucke |
| 5 | 53 | 0.6 | [Research on priority rules for the stochastic resource constrained multi-project scheduling problem with new project arrival](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2019.106060) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 2019-09-12 | HaoJie Chen, Guofu Ding, Jian Zhang et al. |

## Cite this page

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

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