| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Measuring the efficiency of decision making units | European Journal of Operational Research | 1978 | 22,137 |
| 2 | How to make a decision: The analytic hierarchy process | European Journal of Operational Research | 1990 | 6,597 |
| 3 | Optimal Auction Design | Mathematics of Operations Research | 1981 | 4,299 |
| 4 | Introduction to Algorithms | Journal of the Operational Research Society | 1991 | 3,984 |
| 5 | A slacks-based measure of efficiency in data envelopment analysis | European Journal of Operational Research | 2001 | 3,734 |
| 6 | Rate control for communication networks: shadow prices, proportional fairness and stability | Journal of the Operational Research Society | 1998 | 3,673 |
| 7 | Applications of the extent analysis method on fuzzy AHP | European Journal of Operational Research | 1996 | 3,600 |
| 8 | Compromise solution by MCDM methods: A comparative analysis of VIKOR and TOPSIS | European Journal of Operational Research | 2004 | 3,445 |
| 9 | The Price of Robustness | Operations Research | 2004 | 3,318 |
| 10 | Algorithms for the Vehicle Routing and Scheduling Problems with Time Window Constraints | Operations Research | 1987 | 3,139 |
| 11 | An Effective Heuristic Algorithm for the Traveling-Salesman Problem | Operations Research | 1973 | 3,090 |
| 12 | Variable neighborhood search | Computers and Operations Research | 1997 | 3,083 |
| 13 | Future paths for integer programming and links to artificial intelligence | Computers and Operations Research | 1986 | 2,995 |
| 14 | Scheduling of Vehicles from a Central Depot to a Number of Delivery Points | Operations Research | 1964 | 2,970 |
| 15 | Shock Waves on the Highway | Operations Research | 1956 | 2,874 |
| 16 | Efficiency of financial institutions: International survey and directions for future research | European Journal of Operational Research | 1997 | 2,471 |
| 17 | A Proof for the Queuing Formula: L = λW | Operations Research | 1961 | 2,427 |
| 18 | Analytic hierarchy process: An overview of applications | European Journal of Operational Research | 2006 | 2,411 |
| 19 | Rate control for communication networks: shadow prices, proportional fairness and stability | Journal of the Operational Research Society | 0 | 2,392 |
| 20 | The Combination of Forecasts | Journal of the Operational Research Society | 1969 | 2,321 |
| 21 | Regret in Decision Making under Uncertainty | Operations Research | 1982 | 2,283 |
| 22 | The Complexity of Flowshop and Jobshop Scheduling | Mathematics of Operations Research | 1976 | 2,065 |
| 23 | A Greedy Heuristic for the Set-Covering Problem | Mathematics of Operations Research | 1979 | 2,026 |
| 24 | How to select and how to rank projects: The Promethee method | European Journal of Operational Research | 1986 | 1,987 |
| 25 | Introduction to Stochastic Programming | Springer Series in Operations Research | 2011 | 1,968 |
| 26 | Benchmarks for basic scheduling problems | European Journal of Operational Research | 1993 | 1,937 |
| 27 | Robust Convex Optimization | Mathematics of Operations Research | 1998 | 1,914 |
| 28 | Optimum Locations of Switching Centers and the Absolute Centers and Medians of a Graph | Operations Research | 1964 | 1,913 |
| 29 | Decisions with Multiple Objectives: Preferences and Value Tradeoffs. | Journal of the Operational Research Society | 1994 | 1,865 |
| 30 | A Tutorial on the Cross-Entropy Method | Annals of Operations Research | 2005 | 1,865 |
| 31 | Extreme Values, Regular Variation and Point Processes | Springer Series in Operations Research | 1987 | 1,801 |
| 32 | Decomposition Principle for Linear Programs | Operations Research | 1960 | 1,780 |
| 33 | Pricing and the Newsvendor Problem: A Review with Extensions | Operations Research | 1999 | 1,727 |
| 34 | Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications. | Journal of the Operational Research Society | 1994 | 1,725 |
| 35 | Vendor selection criteria and methods | European Journal of Operational Research | 1991 | 1,699 |
| 36 | SMS-EMOA: Multiobjective selection based on dominated hypervolume | European Journal of Operational Research | 2007 | 1,697 |
| 37 | Multi-criteria decision making approaches for supplier evaluation and selection: A literature review | European Journal of Operational Research | 2010 | 1,672 |
| 38 | Remaining useful life estimation – A review on the statistical data driven approaches | European Journal of Operational Research | 2011 | 1,615 |
| 39 | Supply Chain Coordination with Contracts | Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science | 2003 | 1,605 |
| 40 | Variable neighborhood search: Principles and applications | European Journal of Operational Research | 2001 | 1,581 |
| 41 | Branch-and-Price: Column Generation for Solving Huge Integer Programs | Operations Research | 1998 | 1,558 |
| 42 | Technical Note—Convex Programming with Set-Inclusive Constraints and Applications to Inexact Linear Programming | Operations Research | 1973 | 1,554 |
| 43 | Robust Optimization of Large-Scale Systems | Operations Research | 1995 | 1,538 |
| 44 | Determining objective weights in multiple criteria problems: The critic method | Computers and Operations Research | 1995 | 1,532 |
| 45 | Quantitative models for reverse logistics: A review | European Journal of Operational Research | 1997 | 1,518 |
| 46 | OR-Library: Distributing Test Problems by Electronic Mail | Journal of the Operational Research Society | 1990 | 1,514 |
| 47 | A slacks-based measure of super-efficiency in data envelopment analysis | European Journal of Operational Research | 2002 | 1,497 |
| 48 | How to Make a Decision: The Analytic Hierarchy Process | Interfaces | 1994 | 1,483 |
| 49 | The Location of Emergency Service Facilities | Operations Research | 1971 | 1,475 |
| 50 | A Linear Programming Approach to the Cutting-Stock Problem | Operations Research | 1961 | 1,465 |
| 51 | Facility location and supply chain management – A review | European Journal of Operational Research | 2009 | 1,461 |
| 52 | Rough sets theory for multicriteria decision analysis | European Journal of Operational Research | 2001 | 1,456 |
| 53 | Organization Design: An Information Processing View | Interfaces | 1974 | 1,433 |
| 54 | Reverse logistics and closed-loop supply chain: A comprehensive review to explore the future | European Journal of Operational Research | 2015 | 1,412 |
| 55 | Minimization by Random Search Techniques | Mathematics of Operations Research | 1981 | 1,409 |
| 56 | Branch-and-Bound Methods: A Survey | Operations Research | 1966 | 1,401 |
| 57 | Robust solutions of uncertain linear programs | Operations Research Letters | 1999 | 1,383 |
| 58 | Metaheuristics in Combinatorial Optimization | Annals of Operations Research | 2005 | 1,358 |
| 59 | Nonlinear programming: theory and algorithms | Computers and Operations Research | 1993 | 1,341 |
| 60 | Nonlinear Multiobjective Optimization | Profiles in Operations Research | 1998 | 1,332 |
| 61 | Design and control of warehouse order picking: A literature review | European Journal of Operational Research | 2007 | 1,323 |
| 62 | A survey of maintenance policies of deteriorating systems | European Journal of Operational Research | 2002 | 1,300 |
| 63 | Regression Diagnostics -- Identifying Influential Data and Sources of Collinearity | Journal of the Operational Research Society | 1981 | 1,275 |
| 64 | The vehicle routing problem: An overview of exact and approximate algorithms | European Journal of Operational Research | 1992 | 1,275 |
| 65 | Theory of Linear and Integer Programming | Journal of the Operational Research Society | 2000 | 1,274 |
| 66 | OR/MS research in disaster operations management | European Journal of Operational Research | 2006 | 1,262 |
| 67 | Extended VIKOR method in comparison with outranking methods | European Journal of Operational Research | 2007 | 1,258 |
| 68 | Humanitarian aid logistics: supply chain management in high gear | Journal of the Operational Research Society | 2006 | 1,251 |
| 69 | Resource-constrained project scheduling: Notation, classification, models, and methods | European Journal of Operational Research | 1999 | 1,225 |
| 70 | PROMETHEE: A comprehensive literature review on methodologies and applications | European Journal of Operational Research | 2010 | 1,220 |
| 71 | Data envelopment analysis (DEA) – Thirty years on | European Journal of Operational Research | 2009 | 1,214 |
| 72 | Optimum Preventive Maintenance Policies | Operations Research | 1960 | 1,212 |
| 73 | Extreme Value Theory | Springer Series in Operations Research | 2006 | 1,203 |
| 74 | Ant colony optimization for continuous domains | European Journal of Operational Research | 2008 | 1,181 |
| 75 | Integer and Combinatorial Optimization | Journal of the Operational Research Society | 1990 | 1,168 |
| 76 | Nonlinear Follow-the-Leader Models of Traffic Flow | Operations Research | 1961 | 1,156 |
| 77 | Distributionally Robust Optimization Under Moment Uncertainty with Application to Data-Driven Problems | Operations Research | 2010 | 1,155 |
| 78 | Pitfalls and protocols in DEA | European Journal of Operational Research | 2001 | 1,145 |
| 79 | An improved typology of cutting and packing problems | European Journal of Operational Research | 2007 | 1,145 |
| 80 | Modeling undesirable factors in efficiency evaluation | European Journal of Operational Research | 2002 | 1,144 |
| 81 | Deep learning with long short-term memory networks for financial market predictions | European Journal of Operational Research | 2018 | 1,143 |
| 82 | A Method for Solving Traveling-Salesman Problems | Operations Research | 1958 | 1,141 |
| 83 | OR FORUM—The Evolution of Closed-Loop Supply Chain Research | Operations Research | 2009 | 1,129 |
| 84 | Recent trends in modeling of deteriorating inventory | European Journal of Operational Research | 2001 | 1,128 |
| 85 | Decision-making with the AHP: Why is the principal eigenvector necessary | European Journal of Operational Research | 2003 | 1,127 |
| 86 | An effective implementation of the Lin–Kernighan traveling salesman heuristic | European Journal of Operational Research | 2000 | 1,125 |
| 87 | Traffic Dynamics: Studies in Car Following | Operations Research | 1958 | 1,120 |
| 88 | The affect heuristic | European Journal of Operational Research | 2007 | 1,106 |
| 89 | Optimization by Simulated Annealing: An Experimental Evaluation; Part I, Graph Partitioning | Operations Research | 1989 | 1,099 |
| 90 | Solving two-stage robust optimization problems using a column-and-constraint generation method | Operations Research Letters | 2013 | 1,094 |
| 91 | Generalized Lagrange Multiplier Method for Solving Problems of Optimum Allocation of Resources | Operations Research | 1963 | 1,087 |
| 92 | Graphs and Cooperation in Games | Mathematics of Operations Research | 1977 | 1,086 |
| 93 | Integer Programming with a Fixed Number of Variables | Mathematics of Operations Research | 1983 | 1,083 |
| 94 | Portfolio Selection with Transaction Costs | Mathematics of Operations Research | 1990 | 1,079 |
| 95 | Poisson Arrivals See Time Averages | Operations Research | 1982 | 1,076 |
| 96 | A survey of scheduling problems with setup times or costs | European Journal of Operational Research | 2008 | 1,076 |
| 97 | Forecasting, Structural Time Series Models and the Kalman Filter | Journal of the Operational Research Society | 1991 | 1,057 |
| 98 | The Traveling-Salesman Problem and Minimum Spanning Trees | Operations Research | 1970 | 1,056 |
| 99 | Minimizing a Submodular Function on a Lattice | Operations Research | 1978 | 1,050 |
| 100 | A Survey of Scheduling Rules | Operations Research | 1977 | 1,042 |
