| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A fast and elitist multiobjective genetic algorithm: NSGA-II | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2002 | 32,998 |
| 2 | No free lunch theorems for optimization | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 1997 | 9,270 |
| 3 | The particle swarm - explosion, stability, and convergence in a multidimensional complex space | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2002 | 7,102 |
| 4 | MOEA/D: A Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm Based on Decomposition | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2007 | 7,038 |
| 5 | Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms: a comparative case study and the strength Pareto approach | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 1999 | 6,270 |
| 6 | Ant colony system: a cooperative learning approach to the traveling salesman problem | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 1997 | 6,166 |
| 7 | An Evolutionary Many-Objective Optimization Algorithm Using Reference-Point-Based Nondominated Sorting Approach, Part I: Solving Problems With Box Constraints | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2014 | 4,332 |
| 8 | Differential Evolution: A Survey of the State-of-the-Art | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2011 | 4,326 |
| 9 | Handling multiple objectives with particle swarm optimization | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2004 | 3,484 |
| 10 | Biogeography-Based Optimization | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2008 | 3,385 |
| 11 | Performance assessment of multiobjective optimizers: an analysis and review | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2003 | 3,206 |
| 12 | Differential Evolution Algorithm With Strategy Adaptation for Global Numerical Optimization | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2009 | 3,183 |
| 13 | Evolutionary programming made faster | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 1999 | 3,092 |
| 14 | Comprehensive learning particle swarm optimizer for global optimization of multimodal functions | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2006 | 3,070 |
| 15 | JADE: Adaptive Differential Evolution With Optional External Archive | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2009 | 3,012 |
| 16 | Self-Adapting Control Parameters in Differential Evolution: A Comparative Study on Numerical Benchmark Problems | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2006 | 2,854 |
| 17 | Self-Organizing Hierarchical Particle Swarm Optimizer With Time-Varying Acceleration Coefficients | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2004 | 2,481 |
| 18 | Multiobjective Optimization Problems With Complicated Pareto Sets, MOEA/D and NSGA-II | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2009 | 2,189 |
| 19 | Particle Swarm Optimization: Basic Concepts, Variants and Applications in Power Systems | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2008 | 1,893 |
| 20 | Learning and optimization using the clonal selection principle | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2002 | 1,852 |
| 21 | A Cooperative Approach to Particle Swarm Optimization | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2004 | 1,756 |
| 22 | A review of multiobjective test problems and a scalable test problem toolkit | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2006 | 1,480 |
| 23 | The Fully Informed Particle Swarm: Simpler, Maybe Better | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2004 | 1,470 |
| 24 | Parameter control in evolutionary algorithms | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 1999 | 1,455 |
| 25 | Stochastic ranking for constrained evolutionary optimization | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2000 | 1,410 |
| 26 | Differential Evolution With Composite Trial Vector Generation Strategies and Control Parameters | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2011 | 1,377 |
| 27 | Opposition-Based Differential Evolution | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2008 | 1,368 |
| 28 | An Evolutionary Many-Objective Optimization Algorithm Using Reference-Point Based Nondominated Sorting Approach, Part II: Handling Constraints and Extending to an Adaptive Approach | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2014 | 1,292 |
| 29 | Evolutionary Optimization in Uncertain Environments—A Survey | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2005 | 1,269 |
| 30 | A Survey on Evolutionary Computation Approaches to Feature Selection | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2016 | 1,225 |
| 31 | Quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithm for a class of combinatorial optimization | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2002 | 1,215 |
| 32 | One Pixel Attack for Fooling Deep Neural Networks | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2019 | 1,174 |
| 33 | Evolutionary computation: comments on the history and current state | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 1997 | 1,157 |
| 34 | A Reference Vector Guided Evolutionary Algorithm for Many-Objective Optimization | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2016 | 1,140 |
| 35 | Evolutionary programming techniques for economic load dispatch | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2003 | 1,020 |
| 36 | Differential Evolution Using a Neighborhood-Based Mutation Operator | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2009 | 1,014 |
| 37 | An Evolutionary Many-Objective Optimization Algorithm Based on Dominance and Decomposition | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2015 | 923 |
| 38 | A Grid-Based Evolutionary Algorithm for Many-Objective Optimization | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2013 | 890 |
| 39 | ParEGO: a hybrid algorithm with on-line landscape approximation for expensive multiobjective optimization problems | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2006 | 803 |
| 40 | Data mining with an ant colony optimization algorithm | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2002 | 785 |
| 41 | Shift-Based Density Estimation for Pareto-Based Algorithms in Many-Objective Optimization | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2014 | 773 |
| 42 | Decomposition of a Multiobjective Optimization Problem Into a Number of Simple Multiobjective Subproblems | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2014 | 766 |
| 43 | A Simulated Annealing-Based Multiobjective Optimization Algorithm: AMOSA | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2008 | 729 |
| 44 | The balance between proximity and diversity in multiobjective evolutionary algorithms | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2003 | 728 |
| 45 | The compact genetic algorithm | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 1999 | 725 |
| 46 | Dimensionality reduction using genetic algorithms | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2000 | 689 |
| 47 | Intrinsic Motivation Systems for Autonomous Mental Development | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2007 | 687 |
| 48 | A faster algorithm for calculating hypervolume | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2006 | 685 |
| 49 | An orthogonal genetic algorithm with quantization for global numerical optimization | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2001 | 676 |
| 50 | Balance between genetic search and local search in memetic algorithms for multiobjective permutation flowshop scheduling | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2003 | 659 |
