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title: "Operations Research Letters: 13 papers, last 30 days"
description: "Operations Research Letters published 13 papers in the last 30 days (2026-09-27 to 2026-10-26), ranking #52 of 239 journals."
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# Operations Research Letters

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

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journals.md

## 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), Toulouse School of Economics (1) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (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

*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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2025.107367) | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2025.107325) | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2025.107280) | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | 2025-03-18 | Jaehyuk Choi |
| 4 | 3 | 0.2 | [Q tensor tuples to polynomial complementarity problems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2025.107297) | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | 2025-04-16 | Tong-tong Shang, Wensheng Jia |
| 5 | 3 | 0.2 | [The APX-hardness of the Traveling Tournament Problem](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2025.107311) | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2026.107545) | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | Erfang Shan, Liying Kang | Shanghai University |
| 2026-10-07 | [The role of commitment in optimal stopping](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2026.107542) | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2026.107544) | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2026.107543) | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | Huanyu Yin | Shenzhen University |
| 2026-10-01 | [Second-order characterizations of the egalitarian non-separable contribution value](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2026.107552) | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | Jun Guo, Jian Lin | Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University |
| 2026-10-01 | [Improved Rounding Algorithms for Set Cover via Exponential Clocks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2026.107553) | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2026.107551) | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2026.107550) | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | Xiangyu Yang | Shandong University |
| 2026-10-01 | [An Improved Lower Bound for the Online Preemptive Single-Machine Weighted Completion Time Problem](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2026.107548) | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | Samin Jamalabadi, Uwe Schwiegelshohn A |  |
| 2026-10-01 | [A note on Schatten-p quasi-norm for affine matrix rank minimization](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2026.107547) | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | Angang Cui | Yulin University |
| 2026-10-01 | [Distributionally Robust Optimization with Integer Recourse: Convex Reformulations and Critical Recourse Decisions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2026.107546) | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | Yiling Zhang, Zhe Li, Eojin Han | University of Minnesota; University of Notre Dame |
| 2026-10-01 | [Coherent Local Explanations for Mathematical Optimization](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2026.107549) | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2026.107540) | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | Yinping You, Xiaohu Li | Huaqiao University; Stevens Institute of Technology |

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Operations Research Letters. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters

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