Papers on “makespan minimization”
Research on “makespan minimization” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “makespan minimization” appeared in 1,210 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (944), AI (248) and information systems (15).
- 177 of them were published in 2025, against 85 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Huazhong University of Science and Technology (33), Liaocheng University (20) and Hefei University of Technology (18).
- The journals publishing most of them were Computers & Industrial Engineering (100), Expert Systems with Applications (100) and Computers & Operations Research (82).
- The most-cited of them is “Iterated Greedy methods for the distributed permutation flowshop scheduling problem” (Omega, 2018), with 419 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations Research | 75 | 82 | 96 | 85 | 92 | 86 | 98 | 104 | 121 | 105 |
| AI | 10 | 6 | 18 | 22 | 18 | 34 | 33 | 25 | 51 | 31 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 |
| Management | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Economics | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 85 | 89 | 117 | 108 | 110 | 121 | 132 | 132 | 177 | 139 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 100 |
| 2 | Expert Systems with Applications | 100 |
| 3 | Computers & Operations Research | 82 |
| 4 | European Journal of Operational Research | 56 |
| 5 | Journal of Combinatorial Optimization | 30 |
| 6 | Annals of Operations Research | 25 |
| 7 | Journal of Scheduling | 25 |
| 8 | Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review | 16 |
| 9 | Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal | 12 |
| 10 | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 11 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | 33 |
| 2 | Liaocheng University | 20 |
| 3 | Hefei University of Technology | 18 |
| 4 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 14 |
| 5 | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics | 14 |
| 6 | Shanghai University | 13 |
| 7 | Tsinghua University | 13 |
| 8 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | 12 |
| 9 | Shanghai Maritime University | 12 |
| 10 | Wuhan University of Technology | 12 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 340 |
| 2 | France | 35 |
| 3 | United States | 33 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 28 |
| 5 | Canada | 25 |
| 6 | Germany | 23 |
| 7 | South Korea | 21 |
| 8 | Italy | 19 |
| 9 | Brazil | 15 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 15 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | mixed-integer linear programming | 91 |
| 2 | multi-objective optimization | 66 |
| 3 | flexible job shop scheduling | 54 |
| 4 | energy optimization | 43 |
| 5 | approximation algorithms | 35 |
| 6 | single machine scheduling | 35 |
| 7 | variable neighborhood search | 33 |
| 8 | lower bounds | 32 |
| 9 | deep reinforcement learning | 31 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “makespan minimization”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/makespan-minimization
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