Bülent Çatay

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Bülent Çatay is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Bülent Çatay has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 27 papers in Automotive Engineering and 20 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Bülent Çatay's work include Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (35 papers), Transportation and Mobility Innovations (23 papers) and Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure (19 papers). Bülent Çatay is often cited by papers focused on Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (35 papers), Transportation and Mobility Innovations (23 papers) and Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure (19 papers). Bülent Çatay collaborates with scholars based in Türkiye, United States and United Kingdom. Bülent Çatay's co-authors include Merve Keskin, Mir Ehsan Hesam Sadati, Gilbert Laporte, Tonguç Ünlüyurt, Erhan Budak, Deniz Aksen, Burçin Bozkaya, Asoo J. Vakharia, Vahid Akbari and Ş. Selçuk Erengüç and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, European Journal of Operational Research and Expert Systems with Applications.

In The Last Decade

Bülent Çatay

62 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Partial recharge strategies for the electric vehicle routing problem with time windows

2016 424 citations Merve Keskin, Bülent Çatay Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bülent Çatay Türkiye	23	1.5k	1.1k	730	492	195	67	2.2k
Christelle Guéret France	17	1.6k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	429 0.6×	522 1.1×	80 0.4×	24	2.2k
Ikou Kaku Japan	26	1.6k 1.1×	496 0.5×	277 0.4×	262 0.5×	320 1.6×	67	2.2k
Michael Schneider Germany	24	2.3k 1.6×	1.6k 1.4×	991 1.4×	933 1.9×	45 0.2×	59	3.0k
Caroline Prodhon France	25	2.3k 1.6×	831 0.8×	192 0.3×	1.0k 2.1×	178 0.9×	44	2.9k
Fulya Altıparmak Türkiye	21	1.2k 0.8×	356 0.3×	222 0.3×	364 0.7×	419 2.1×	44	2.3k
Chung‐Cheng Lu Taiwan	31	797 0.5×	721 0.7×	213 0.3×	705 1.4×	122 0.6×	95	2.6k
Seokcheon Lee United States	23	1.1k 0.7×	455 0.4×	205 0.3×	267 0.5×	122 0.6×	65	1.9k
Gianpaolo Ghiani Italy	26	1.7k 1.1×	889 0.8×	89 0.1×	702 1.4×	142 0.7×	96	2.4k
Juan G. Villegas Colombia	13	826 0.6×	665 0.6×	394 0.5×	347 0.7×	32 0.2×	37	1.2k
Ivana Ljubić France	24	932 0.6×	226 0.2×	421 0.6×	298 0.6×	82 0.4×	100	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Bülent Çatay

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bülent Çatay

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Çatay, Bülent & Mir Ehsan Hesam Sadati. (2025). A note on battery swapping policies in the electric vehicle routing problem with time windows and battery swapping vehicles. Computers & Operations Research. 185. 107277–107277.

Bruglieri, Maurizio, Bülent Çatay, Merve Keskin, Simona Mancini, & Ornella Pisacane. (2025). The Mixed-Fleet Vehicle Routing Problem with Low Emission Zones. Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review. 201. 104230–104230.

Sadati, Mir Ehsan Hesam & Bülent Çatay. (2025). Improving last-mile delivery operations of electric vehicles using on-demand portable chargers. Transportation research procedia. 86. 564–571.

Çatay, Bülent, et al.. (2025). A route optimization approach for incentivizing self-pickups in last-mile deliveries. Procedia Computer Science. 263. 68–75.

Çatay, Bülent, et al.. (2024). An effective matheuristic approach for solving the electric traveling salesperson problem with time windows and battery degradation. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 132. 107943–107943. 5 indexed citations

Taş, Duygu, et al.. (2024). A bidirectional branch-and-price algorithm with Pulse procedure for the Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with flexible deliveries. Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies. 165. 104699–104699. 5 indexed citations

Çatay, Bülent & Mir Ehsan Hesam Sadati. (2023). An improved matheuristic for solving the electric vehicle routing problem with time windows and synchronized mobile charging/battery swapping. Computers & Operations Research. 159. 106310–106310. 34 indexed citations

Sadati, Mir Ehsan Hesam, et al.. (2023). Last mile delivery routing problem using autonomous electric vehicles. Computers & Industrial Engineering. 184. 109552–109552. 20 indexed citations

Çatay, Bülent, et al.. (2020). An Enhanced Network-Consistent Travel Speed Generation Scheme on Time-Dependent Shortest Path and Routing Problems. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 23(2). 873–884. 3 indexed citations

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Keskin, Merve & Bülent Çatay. (2018). A matheuristic method for the electric vehicle routing problem with time windows and fast chargers. Computers & Operations Research. 100. 172–188. 191 indexed citations

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Kayıkçı, Yaşanur, et al.. (2017). Planning multimodal freight transport operations: a literature review. Sabanci University. 4 indexed citations

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Çatay, Bülent, et al.. (2017). Current status of the electrification of transport logistic vehicles - Early niche markets and commercialization opportunities. elib (German Aerospace Center). 5 indexed citations

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Çatay, Bülent & Merve Keskin. (2017). The impact of quick charging stations on the route planning of Electric Vehicles. 152–157. 23 indexed citations

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Ozdemır, Enver, et al.. (2015). Electrification of transport logistic vehicles: A techno-economic assessment of battery and fuel cell electric transporter. elib (German Aerospace Center). 5 indexed citations

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Çatay, Bülent, et al.. (2015). Automating unambiguous NOE data usage in NVR for NMR protein structure-based assignments. Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. 13(6). 1550020–1550020. 1 indexed citations

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Çatay, Bülent, et al.. (2012). A Tabu Search Approach for the NMR Protein Structure-Based Assignment Problem. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 9(6). 1621–1628. 15 indexed citations

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Apaydın, Mehmet Serkan, et al.. (2010). NVR-BIP: Nuclear Vector Replacement using Binary Integer Programming for NMR Structure-Based Assignments. The Computer Journal. 54(5). 708–716. 12 indexed citations

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Çatay, Bülent. (2006). Ant colony optimization approach for the capacitated vehicle routing problem with simultaneous delivery and pick-up. Sabanci University. 2 indexed citations

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Çetindamar, Dilek, et al.. (2005). Competition through collaboration: insights from an initiative in the Turkish textile supply chain. Supply Chain Management An International Journal. 10(4). 238–240. 41 indexed citations

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Vakharia, Asoo J. & Bülent Çatay. (1997). Two machine openshop scheduling with machine-dependent processing times. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 73(3). 283–288. 1 indexed citations

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