| # | 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 | A slacks-based measure of efficiency in data envelopment analysis | European Journal of Operational Research | 2001 | 3,734 |
| 4 | Applications of the extent analysis method on fuzzy AHP | European Journal of Operational Research | 1996 | 3,600 |
| 5 | Compromise solution by MCDM methods: A comparative analysis of VIKOR and TOPSIS | European Journal of Operational Research | 2004 | 3,445 |
| 6 | Efficiency of financial institutions: International survey and directions for future research | European Journal of Operational Research | 1997 | 2,471 |
| 7 | Analytic hierarchy process: An overview of applications | European Journal of Operational Research | 2006 | 2,411 |
| 8 | How to select and how to rank projects: The Promethee method | European Journal of Operational Research | 1986 | 1,987 |
| 9 | Benchmarks for basic scheduling problems | European Journal of Operational Research | 1993 | 1,937 |
| 10 | Vendor selection criteria and methods | European Journal of Operational Research | 1991 | 1,699 |
| 11 | SMS-EMOA: Multiobjective selection based on dominated hypervolume | European Journal of Operational Research | 2007 | 1,697 |
| 12 | Multi-criteria decision making approaches for supplier evaluation and selection: A literature review | European Journal of Operational Research | 2010 | 1,672 |
| 13 | Remaining useful life estimation – A review on the statistical data driven approaches | European Journal of Operational Research | 2011 | 1,615 |
| 14 | Variable neighborhood search: Principles and applications | European Journal of Operational Research | 2001 | 1,581 |
| 15 | Quantitative models for reverse logistics: A review | European Journal of Operational Research | 1997 | 1,518 |
| 16 | A slacks-based measure of super-efficiency in data envelopment analysis | European Journal of Operational Research | 2002 | 1,497 |
| 17 | Facility location and supply chain management – A review | European Journal of Operational Research | 2009 | 1,461 |
| 18 | Rough sets theory for multicriteria decision analysis | European Journal of Operational Research | 2001 | 1,456 |
| 19 | Reverse logistics and closed-loop supply chain: A comprehensive review to explore the future | European Journal of Operational Research | 2015 | 1,412 |
| 20 | Design and control of warehouse order picking: A literature review | European Journal of Operational Research | 2007 | 1,323 |
| 21 | A survey of maintenance policies of deteriorating systems | European Journal of Operational Research | 2002 | 1,300 |
| 22 | The vehicle routing problem: An overview of exact and approximate algorithms | European Journal of Operational Research | 1992 | 1,275 |
| 23 | OR/MS research in disaster operations management | European Journal of Operational Research | 2006 | 1,262 |
| 24 | Extended VIKOR method in comparison with outranking methods | European Journal of Operational Research | 2007 | 1,258 |
| 25 | Resource-constrained project scheduling: Notation, classification, models, and methods | European Journal of Operational Research | 1999 | 1,225 |
| 26 | PROMETHEE: A comprehensive literature review on methodologies and applications | European Journal of Operational Research | 2010 | 1,220 |
| 27 | Data envelopment analysis (DEA) – Thirty years on | European Journal of Operational Research | 2009 | 1,214 |
| 28 | Ant colony optimization for continuous domains | European Journal of Operational Research | 2008 | 1,181 |
| 29 | Pitfalls and protocols in DEA | European Journal of Operational Research | 2001 | 1,145 |
| 30 | An improved typology of cutting and packing problems | European Journal of Operational Research | 2007 | 1,145 |
| 31 | Modeling undesirable factors in efficiency evaluation | European Journal of Operational Research | 2002 | 1,144 |
| 32 | Deep learning with long short-term memory networks for financial market predictions | European Journal of Operational Research | 2018 | 1,143 |
| 33 | Recent trends in modeling of deteriorating inventory | European Journal of Operational Research | 2001 | 1,128 |
| 34 | Decision-making with the AHP: Why is the principal eigenvector necessary | European Journal of Operational Research | 2003 | 1,127 |
| 35 | An effective implementation of the Lin–Kernighan traveling salesman heuristic | European Journal of Operational Research | 2000 | 1,125 |
| 36 | The affect heuristic | European Journal of Operational Research | 2007 | 1,106 |
| 37 | A survey of scheduling problems with setup times or costs | European Journal of Operational Research | 2008 | 1,076 |
| 38 | Strategic facility location: A review | European Journal of Operational Research | 1998 | 1,038 |
| 39 | Enterprise resource planning: Implementation procedures and critical success factors | European Journal of Operational Research | 2003 | 1,035 |
| 40 | Efficiency decomposition in two-stage data envelopment analysis: An application to non-life insurance companies in Taiwan | European Journal of Operational Research | 2008 | 1,031 |
| 41 | Coordinated supply chain management | European Journal of Operational Research | 1996 | 994 |
| 42 | PSPLIB - A project scheduling problem library | European Journal of Operational Research | 1997 | 978 |
| 43 | Network DEA: A slacks-based measure approach | European Journal of Operational Research | 2009 | 966 |
| 44 | A survey of data envelopment analysis in energy and environmental studies | European Journal of Operational Research | 2008 | 942 |
| 45 | Staff scheduling and rostering: A review of applications, methods and models | European Journal of Operational Research | 2004 | 934 |
| 46 | Kriging metamodeling in simulation: A review | European Journal of Operational Research | 2009 | 933 |
| 47 | Quantitative models for sustainable supply chain management: Developments and directions | European Journal of Operational Research | 2014 | 920 |
| 48 | Assessing a set of additive utility functions for multicriteria decision-making, the UTA method | European Journal of Operational Research | 1982 | 911 |
| 49 | Information systems in supply chain integration and management | European Journal of Operational Research | 2004 | 895 |
| 50 | A simple and effective iterated greedy algorithm for the permutation flowshop scheduling problem | European Journal of Operational Research | 2007 | 888 |
