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title: "Taillard instances: research papers using this data"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 94 archived papers mentioned Taillard instances in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Mar 2026 (7)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/taillard-instances
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 94 archived papers mentioned Taillard instances in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Mar 2026 (7). (as of 2026-11-05)"
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# Taillard instances

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/6.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: Taillard instances, Taillard benchmark, Taillard's

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, 94 archived papers mentioned Taillard instances in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Mar 2026 (7).
- No paper of the tracked journals mentioned Taillard instances in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Taillard instances was mentioned in 106 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (56), AI (17) and finance (15).
- 31 of them were published in 2025, against 3 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (5), HEC Montréal (4) and Hamad bin Khalifa University (4).
- The journals publishing most of them were Computers & Operations Research (13), European Journal of Operational Research (9) and Annals of Operations Research (5).
- The most-cited of them is “A novel chemical reaction optimization for the distributed permutation flowshop scheduling problem with makespan criterion” (Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2017), with 137 citations.
- Papers use Taillard instances most often with Compustat (7), BoardEx (5) and CEC benchmark functions (4); it has 11 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 29 | 31 | 34 | 94 |

## 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) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 15 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 2 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 32 | 31 | 27 |

## 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) | 13 |
| 2 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 5 |
| 4 | [Journal of Corporate Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-corporate-finance.md) | 4 |
| 5 | [Journal of Heuristics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-heuristics.md) | 4 |
| 6 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 3 |
| 7 | [OR Spectrum](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/or-spectrum.md) | 3 |
| 8 | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 3 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 3 |
| 10 | [Transportation Research Part B Methodological](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-b-methodological.md) | 2 |

*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) | 5 |
| 2 | HEC Montréal | 4 |
| 3 | Hamad bin Khalifa University | 4 |
| 4 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso | 3 |
| 5 | [University of Bath](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-bath.md) | 3 |
| 6 | [University of Vienna](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-vienna.md) | 3 |
| 7 | [Universität Hamburg](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universitat-hamburg.md) | 3 |
| 8 | [Durham University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/durham-university.md) | 2 |
| 9 | [Eindhoven University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/eindhoven-university-of-technology.md) | 2 |
| 10 | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | 2 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 20 |
| 2 | Germany | 16 |
| 3 | China | 14 |
| 4 | Italy | 12 |
| 5 | United States | 11 |
| 6 | Canada | 8 |
| 7 | France | 7 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 6 |
| 9 | Spain | 5 |
| 10 | Qatar | 5 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [combinatorial optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/combinatorial-optimization.md) | 12 |
| 2 | [metaheuristic optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/metaheuristic-optimization.md) | 10 |
| 3 | job shop scheduling | 7 |
| 4 | [makespan minimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/makespan-minimization.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [vehicle routing](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/vehicle-routing.md) | 7 |
| 6 | Taillard benchmark | 6 |
| 7 | matheuristic | 6 |
| 8 | [reinforcement learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/reinforcement-learning.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 5 |
| 10 | board independence | 4 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 137 | 1.2 | [A novel chemical reaction optimization for the distributed permutation flowshop scheduling problem with makespan criterion](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2017.07.020) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 2017-07-18 | Hafewa Bargaoui, Olfa Belkahla Driss, Khaled Ghédira |
| 2 | 86 | 0.9 | [A hybrid biogeography-based optimization with variable neighborhood search mechanism for no-wait flow shop scheduling problem](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2019.02.023) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2019-02-18 | Fuqing Zhao, Shuo Qin, Yi Zhang et al. |
| 3 | 84 | 3.1 | [Bridging Evolutionary Algorithms and Reinforcement Learning: A Comprehensive Survey on Hybrid Algorithms](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2024.3443913) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2024-08-14 | Pengyi Li, Jianye Hao, Hongyao Tang et al. |
| 4 | 76 | 0.9 | [A hybrid discrete water wave optimization algorithm for the no-idle flowshop scheduling problem with total tardiness criterion](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2019.113166) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2019-12-28 | Fuqing Zhao, Lixin Zhang, Yi Zhang et al. |
| 5 | 67 | 2.9 | [Graph neural networks for job shop scheduling problems: A survey](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2024.106914) | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | 2024-11-29 | Igor G. Smit, Jianan Zhou, Robbert Reijnen et al. |

## Used together with

Papers use Taillard instances most often with Compustat (7), BoardEx (5) and CEC benchmark functions (4); it has 11 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.

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

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Compustat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/compustat.md) | Dataset | 7 | 5.0 |
| [BoardEx](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/boardex.md) | Dataset | 5 | 18.8 |
| [CEC benchmark functions](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cec-benchmark-functions.md) | Dataset | 4 | 2.8 |
| [CRSP](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/crsp.md) | Dataset | 4 | 4.2 |
| [CVRPLIB](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cvrplib.md) | Dataset | 4 | 127.7 |
| [Refinitiv Datastream](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/refinitiv-datastream.md) | Dataset | 4 | 4.8 |
| [S&P 500](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/s-p-500.md) | Dataset | 4 | 0.8 |
| [TSPLIB](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/tsplib.md) | Dataset | 4 | 21.8 |
| [International Energy Agency (IEA)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/international-energy-agency-iea.md) | Dataset | 3 | 1.4 |
| [Refinitiv Eikon / LSEG Workspace](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/refinitiv-eikon-lseg-workspace.md) | Dataset | 3 | 3.5 |
| [Traffic (PeMS, METR-LA)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/traffic-pems-metr-la.md) | Dataset | 3 | 6.2 |

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

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Taillard instances. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/taillard-instances

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