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title: "Robust optimization research: papers and trends"
description: "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)."
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share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# 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.

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

## 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

*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) | 71 | 88 | 86 | 64 | 105 | 118 | 78 | 109 | 101 | 111 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 14 | 17 | 8 | 14 | 12 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 4 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 4 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 59 |
| 2 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 55 |
| 3 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 42 |
| 4 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 32 |
| 5 | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | 27 |
| 6 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 26 |
| 7 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 20 |
| 8 | [Omega](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/omega.md) | 17 |
| 9 | [Transportation Research Part B Methodological](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-b-methodological.md) | 15 |
| 10 | [Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-optimization-theory-and-applications.md) | 12 |

*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) | 16 |
| 2 | [Shanghai University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-university.md) | 16 |
| 3 | Iran University of Science and Technology | 14 |
| 4 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 13 |
| 5 | [Central South University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-south-university.md) | 12 |
| 6 | [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/massachusetts-institute-of-technology.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [University of Tehran](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-tehran.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 11 |
| 9 | [Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university-of-information-science-and-technology.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [Beijing Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-jiaotong-university.md) | 8 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [demand uncertainty](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/demand-uncertainty.md) | 75 |
| 2 | [multi-objective optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multi-objective-optimization.md) | 43 |
| 3 | Benders decomposition | 32 |
| 4 | column-and-constraint generation | 28 |
| 5 | distributionally robust optimization | 26 |
| 6 | [mixed-integer linear programming](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mixed-integer-linear-programming.md) | 25 |
| 7 | facility location | 21 |
| 8 | [supply chain resilience](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/supply-chain-resilience.md) | 19 |
| 9 | uncertainty sets | 19 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 710 | 6.2 | [Supply chain network design under uncertainty: A comprehensive review and future research directions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.04.009) | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 2017-04-08 | Kannan Govindan, Mohammad Fattahi, Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh |
| 2 | 527 | 4.6 | [A framework for sensitivity analysis of decision trees](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10100-017-0479-6) | [Central European Journal of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/central-european-journal-of-operations-research.md) | 2017-05-24 | Bogumił Kamiński, Michał Jakubczyk, Przemysław Szufel |
| 3 | 264 | 3.0 | [The electric vehicle routing problem with energy consumption uncertainty](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2019.06.006) | [Transportation Research Part B Methodological](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-b-methodological.md) | 2019-06-25 | Samuel Pelletier, Ola Jabali, Gilbert Laporte A |
| 4 | 224 | 2.0 | [Robust planning of dynamic wireless charging infrastructure for battery electric buses](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2017.07.013) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2017-08-04 | Zhaocai Liu, Ziqi Song |
| 5 | 206 | 1.9 | [Closed-loop supply chain network design under disruption risks: A robust approach with real world application](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2017.12.025) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 2018-01-08 | Armin Jabbarzadeh, Michael A. Haughton, Amir Khosrojerdi |

## 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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  title = {Papers on “robust optimization”},
  year = {2026},
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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).