Papers on “robust optimization”
Research on “robust optimization” 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 “robust optimization” appeared in 1,102 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (931), AI (106) and finance (33).
- 129 of them were published in 2025, against 86 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (16), Shanghai University (16) and Iran University of Science and Technology (14).
- The journals publishing most of them were Computers & Industrial Engineering (59), European Journal of Operational Research (55) and Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review (42).
- The most-cited of them is “Supply chain network design under uncertainty: A comprehensive review and future research directions” (European Journal of Operational Research, 2017), with 710 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations Research | 71 | 88 | 86 | 64 | 105 | 118 | 78 | 109 | 101 | 111 |
| AI | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 14 | 17 | 8 | 14 | 12 |
| Finance | 4 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 4 |
| Economics | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| Statistics | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 86 | 100 | 102 | 75 | 123 | 139 | 96 | 121 | 129 | 131 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 59 |
| 2 | European Journal of Operational Research | 55 |
| 3 | Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review | 42 |
| 4 | Annals of Operations Research | 32 |
| 5 | Computers & Operations Research | 27 |
| 6 | Expert Systems with Applications | 26 |
| 7 | Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies | 20 |
| 8 | Omega | 17 |
| 9 | Transportation Research Part B Methodological | 15 |
| 10 | Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications | 12 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 16 |
| 2 | Shanghai University | 16 |
| 3 | Iran University of Science and Technology | 14 |
| 4 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 13 |
| 5 | Central South University | 12 |
| 6 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 11 |
| 7 | University of Tehran | 11 |
| 8 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 11 |
| 9 | Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology | 10 |
| 10 | Beijing Jiaotong University | 8 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 183 |
| 2 | Iran | 68 |
| 3 | United States | 66 |
| 4 | Canada | 35 |
| 5 | France | 35 |
| 6 | Germany | 33 |
| 7 | Hong Kong | 30 |
| 8 | United Kingdom | 29 |
| 9 | India | 25 |
| 10 | Italy | 19 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand uncertainty | 75 |
| 2 | multi-objective optimization | 43 |
| 3 | Benders decomposition | 32 |
| 4 | column-and-constraint generation | 28 |
| 5 | distributionally robust optimization | 26 |
| 6 | mixed-integer linear programming | 25 |
| 7 | facility location | 21 |
| 8 | supply chain resilience | 19 |
| 9 | uncertainty sets | 19 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “robust optimization”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/robust-optimization
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