Operations Research Letters

0 papers in the last 7 days · category: Operations Research · publisher: Elsevier BV · ISSN 0167-6377

Key findings#

Operations Research Letters published 13 papers in the last 30 days (2026-09-27 to 2026-10-26), ranking #52 of 239 journals.
Leading institutions: Shanghai University (1), Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse (1) and Georgia Institute of Technology (1).
Countries: China (7), United States (4) and France (2).
From Oct 2023 to Sep 2026, Operations Research Letters published 368 papers (10 a month on average, by publication date in OpenAlex).
Its most frequent keywords over that period were “combinatorial optimization” (21), “approximation algorithms” (20) and “cooperative games” (20).
Its most-cited paper of the period is “Intellectual property protection and platform digitalization empowering technology entrepreneurship in emerging markets” (2025-09-09), with 18 citations.

The last 36 months#

Oct 23Sep 26

Papers by publication date, Oct 2023 to Sep 2026
Oct 23–Sep 24	Oct 24–Sep 25	Oct 25–Sep 26	36 months
122	121	125	368

Most frequent keywords, Oct 2023 to Sep 2026
#	Keyword	Papers
1	combinatorial optimization	21
2	approximation algorithms	20
3	cooperative games	20
4	NP-hardness	17
5	axiomatization	14
6	computational complexity	11
7	approximation ratio	9
8	non-convex optimization	9
9	integer programming	8
10	linear programming	8

Most-cited papers published Oct 2023 to Sep 2026
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	18	1.3	Intellectual property protection and platform digitalization empowering technology entrepreneurship in emerging markets	Operations Research Letters	2025-09-09	Wenhao Du, Qizhi He, Tengteng Cao et al.
2	4	0.3	A note about a transition of Ratliff and Rosenthal's order picking algorithm for rectangular warehouses	Operations Research Letters	2025-06-27	Paul Revenant, Hadrien Cambazard, Nicolas Catusse
3	3	0.2	Exact simulation scheme for the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck driven stochastic volatility model with the Karhunen–Loève expansions	Operations Research Letters	2025-03-18	Jaehyuk Choi
4	3	0.2	Q tensor tuples to polynomial complementarity problems	Operations Research Letters	2025-04-16	Tong-tong Shang, Wensheng Jia
5	3	0.2	The APX-hardness of the Traveling Tournament Problem	Operations Research Letters	2025-05-30	Jingyang Zhao, Mingyu Xiao

Papers, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-10-12	Three characterizations of the weighted center of imputations value	Operations Research Letters	Erfang Shan, Liying Kang	Shanghai University
2026-10-07	The role of commitment in optimal stopping	Operations Research Letters	José Correa, Evangelia Gergatsouli, Bruno Ziliotto	University of Chile; Georgia Institute of Technology; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; …
2026-10-03	Robust assortment optimization under the nested logit model	Operations Research Letters	Yicheng Liu, Wenjie Huang, Zizhuo Wang	Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; University of Hong Kong; Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
2026-10-02	Asymptotic optimality of independent base-stock policies in assemble-to-order systems	Operations Research Letters	Huanyu Yin	Shenzhen University
2026-10-01	Second-order characterizations of the egalitarian non-separable contribution value	Operations Research Letters	Jun Guo, Jian Lin	Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
2026-10-01	Improved Rounding Algorithms for Set Cover via Exponential Clocks	Operations Research Letters	Kishen N. Gowda, Will Ma, Aravind Srinivasan et al.	University of Maryland, College Park; Columbia University
2026-10-01	A Bundle Method for Nonlinearly Constrained Projections	Operations Research Letters	Welington de Oliveira, François Pacaud	École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris
2026-10-01	Two-timescale stochastic approximation for smooth and strongly-convex-strongly-concave stochastic minimax optimization: A new convergence rate	Operations Research Letters	Xiangyu Yang	Shandong University
2026-10-01	An Improved Lower Bound for the Online Preemptive Single-Machine Weighted Completion Time Problem	Operations Research Letters	Samin Jamalabadi, Uwe Schwiegelshohn A
2026-10-01	A note on Schatten-p quasi-norm for affine matrix rank minimization	Operations Research Letters	Angang Cui	Yulin University
2026-10-01	Distributionally Robust Optimization with Integer Recourse: Convex Reformulations and Critical Recourse Decisions	Operations Research Letters	Yiling Zhang, Zhe Li, Eojin Han	University of Minnesota; University of Notre Dame
2026-10-01	Coherent Local Explanations for Mathematical Optimization	Operations Research Letters	Daan Otto, Jannis Kurtz, Ş. İlker Birbil	Amsterdam University College; Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences; University of Amsterdam
2026-09-30	On allocating active redundancy to k-out-of-n systems with statistically dependent component and redundancy lifetimes	Operations Research Letters	Yinping You, Xiaohu Li	Huaqiao University; Stevens Institute of Technology

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