Donald Erlenkotter

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Donald Erlenkotter is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Donald Erlenkotter has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Building and Construction, 8 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 6 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Donald Erlenkotter's work include Urban and Freight Transport Logistics (7 papers), Water resources management and optimization (4 papers) and Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms (4 papers). Donald Erlenkotter is often cited by papers focused on Urban and Freight Transport Logistics (7 papers), Water resources management and optimization (4 papers) and Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms (4 papers). Donald Erlenkotter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Belgium. Donald Erlenkotter's co-authors include Tony J. Van Roy, Suresh Sethi, Norio Okada, J. Scott Rogers, Robert R. Trippi, Alan S. Manne and Giovanni Leonardi and has published in prestigious journals such as Management Science, Water Resources Research and European Journal of Operational Research.

In The Last Decade

Donald Erlenkotter

26 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

A Dual-Based Procedure for Uncapacitated Facility Location 1978 2026 1994 2010 1978 200 400 600
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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.

  1. A Dual-Based Procedure for Uncapacitated Facility Location
    1978 630 citations Donald Erlenkotter Operations Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Donald Erlenkotter United States 15 833 655 309 245 223 26 1.4k
Glenn W. Graves United States 15 1.1k 1.3× 260 0.4× 243 0.8× 272 1.1× 156 0.7× 24 1.9k
Tony J. Van Roy Belgium 10 761 0.9× 332 0.5× 161 0.5× 259 1.1× 141 0.6× 11 1.2k
Collette R. Coullard United States 14 795 1.0× 713 1.1× 312 1.0× 513 2.1× 209 0.9× 33 1.8k
Basheer M. Khumawala United States 24 1.4k 1.6× 683 1.0× 351 1.1× 540 2.2× 129 0.6× 68 2.3k
John G. Klincewicz United States 18 882 1.1× 530 0.8× 260 0.8× 114 0.5× 230 1.0× 39 1.4k
Hanan Luss United States 23 802 1.0× 250 0.4× 110 0.4× 464 1.9× 415 1.9× 80 1.9k
Samuel S. Chiu United States 12 394 0.5× 562 0.9× 225 0.7× 75 0.3× 103 0.5× 25 902
Emanuel Melachrinoudis United States 22 420 0.5× 372 0.6× 210 0.7× 169 0.7× 762 3.4× 68 1.9k
Andreas Klose Denmark 13 628 0.8× 619 0.9× 383 1.2× 114 0.5× 83 0.4× 23 1.1k
Daniel Serra Spain 18 512 0.6× 727 1.1× 346 1.1× 74 0.3× 134 0.6× 49 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Donald Erlenkotter

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Donald Erlenkotter

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Erlenkotter, Donald. (2013). Ford Whitman Harris's economical lot size model. International Journal of Production Economics. 155. 12–15. 9 indexed citations
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Erlenkotter, Donald. (1990). Ford Whitman Harris and the Economic Order Quantity Model. Operations Research. 38(6). 937–946. 80 indexed citations
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Erlenkotter, Donald, Suresh Sethi, & Norio Okada. (1989). Planning for Surprise: Water Resources Development Under Demand and Supply Uncertainty I. The General Model. Management Science. 35(2). 149–163. 26 indexed citations
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Erlenkotter, Donald. (1989). Note—An Early Classic Misplaced: Ford W. Harris's Economic Order Quantity Model of 1915. Management Science. 35(7). 898–900. 51 indexed citations
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Erlenkotter, Donald. (1989). The general optimal market area model. Annals of Operations Research. 18(1). 43–70. 43 indexed citations
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Roy, Tony J. Van & Donald Erlenkotter. (1982). A Dual-Based Procedure for Dynamic Facility Location. Management Science. 28(10). 1091–1105. 200 indexed citations
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Erlenkotter, Donald & Giovanni Leonardi. (1981). Facility Location with Spatially Interactive Travel Behavior. IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 11 indexed citations
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Erlenkotter, Donald. (1981). A comparative study of approaches to dynamic location problems. European Journal of Operational Research. 6(2). 133–143. 91 indexed citations
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Erlenkotter, Donald. (1978). A Dual-Based Procedure for Uncapacitated Facility Location. Operations Research. 26(6). 992–1009. 630 indexed citations breakdown →
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Erlenkotter, Donald. (1977). Capacity Expansion with Imports and Inventories. Management Science. 23(7). 694–702. 17 indexed citations
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Erlenkotter, Donald & Robert R. Trippi. (1976). Optimal Investment Scheduling with Price-Sensitive Dynamic Demand. Management Science. 23(1). 1–11. 14 indexed citations
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Erlenkotter, Donald. (1975). Capacity Planning for Large Multilocation Systems: Approximate and Incomplete Dynamic Programming Approaches. Management Science. 22(3). 274–285. 28 indexed citations
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Erlenkotter, Donald. (1975). Comment on ‘Optimal timing, sequencing, and sizing of multiple reservoir surface water supply facilities’ by L. Becker and W. W‐G. Yeh. Water Resources Research. 11(2). 380–381. 5 indexed citations
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Erlenkotter, Donald. (1974). Note—Dynamic Facility Location and Simple Network Models. Management Science. 20(9). 1311–1311. 2 indexed citations
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Erlenkotter, Donald. (1974). Note—A Dynamic Programming Approach to Capacity Expansion with Specialization. Management Science. 21(3). 360–362. 24 indexed citations
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Erlenkotter, Donald. (1974). Errata. Operations Research. 22(1). 202–202. 1 indexed citations
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Erlenkotter, Donald. (1972). Economic Integration and Dynamic Location Planning. The Swedish Journal of Economics. 74(1). 8–8. 9 indexed citations
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Erlenkotter, Donald. (1970). A Review of: “PROGRAMMING INVESTMENT IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES” By David A. Kendrick The MIT Press 1967 160pp. $7.50. The Engineering Economist. 15(3). 189–196. 1 indexed citations
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Erlenkotter, Donald. (1970). The Sequencing of Expansion Projects. 3 indexed citations
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Erlenkotter, Donald & Alan S. Manne. (1968). Capacity Expansion for India's Nitrogenous Fertilizer Industry. Management Science. 14(10). B–553. 12 indexed citations

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