G Laporte

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 811 citations indexed

About

G Laporte is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, G Laporte has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 811 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 3 papers in Automotive Engineering and 2 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in G Laporte's work include Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (5 papers), Transportation and Mobility Innovations (3 papers) and Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization (2 papers). G Laporte is often cited by papers focused on Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (5 papers), Transportation and Mobility Innovations (3 papers) and Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization (2 papers). G Laporte collaborates with scholars based in Canada and France. G Laporte's co-authors include J-F Cordeau, Aurelién Mercier, Jacques Renaud, Fayez F. Boctor, Luigi Moccia, Arielle Lasry, Tolga Bektaş and Erhan Erkut and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the Operational Research Society.

In The Last Decade

G Laporte

7 papers receiving 753 citations

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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.

A unified tabu search heuristic for vehicle routing problems with time windows

2001 626 citations J-F Cordeau, G Laporte et al. Journal of the Operational Research Society profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
G Laporte Canada	6	746	403	243	103	77	7	811
José Brandão Portugal	12	1.0k 1.4×	533 1.3×	404 1.7×	123 1.2×	82 1.1×	12	1.1k
Emmanouil E. Zachariadis Greece	19	1.1k 1.5×	379 0.9×	290 1.2×	93 0.9×	55 0.7×	28	1.2k
Barrie M. Baker United Kingdom	9	547 0.7×	237 0.6×	167 0.7×	137 1.3×	86 1.1×	15	713
Billy E. Gillett United States	7	886 1.2×	423 1.0×	351 1.4×	125 1.2×	79 1.0×	11	973
Ricardo Fukasawa Canada	14	689 0.9×	303 0.8×	163 0.7×	55 0.5×	43 0.6×	39	820
İmdat Kara Türkiye	12	563 0.8×	221 0.5×	222 0.9×	57 0.6×	75 1.0×	27	686
Puca Huachi Vaz Penna Brazil	11	707 0.9×	343 0.9×	221 0.9×	76 0.7×	128 1.7×	23	812
Victor Pillac Australia	6	720 1.0×	526 1.3×	321 1.3×	80 0.8×	69 0.9×	7	978
Zhixing Luo China	17	643 0.9×	389 1.0×	256 1.1×	39 0.4×	45 0.6×	32	816
Diego Cattaruzza France	12	751 1.0×	394 1.0×	470 1.9×	56 0.5×	40 0.5×	35	906

Countries citing papers authored by G Laporte

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Fields of papers citing papers by G Laporte

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of G Laporte

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of G Laporte. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of G Laporte based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with G Laporte. G Laporte is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Moccia, Luigi, J-F Cordeau, & G Laporte. (2011). An incremental tabu search heuristic for the generalized vehicle routing problem with time windows. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 63(2). 232–244. 52 indexed citations

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Bektaş, Tolga, J-F Cordeau, Erhan Erkut, & G Laporte. (2007). A two-level simulated annealing algorithm for efficient dissemination of electronic content. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 59(11). 1557–1567. 6 indexed citations

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Renaud, Jacques, et al.. (2005). Solving a vehicle-routing problem arising in soft-drink distribution. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 57(9). 1045–1052. 72 indexed citations

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Cordeau, J-F, et al.. (2002). A guide to vehicle routing heuristics. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 53(5). 512–522. 29 indexed citations

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Cordeau, J-F, G Laporte, & Aurelién Mercier. (2001). A unified tabu search heuristic for vehicle routing problems with time windows. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 52(8). 928–936. 626 indexed citations breakdown →

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Laporte, G, et al.. (2001). Solving arc routing problems with turn penalties. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 52(4). 433–439. 3 indexed citations

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Cordeau, J-F, et al.. (1998). Scheduling linen deliveries in a large hospital. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 49(8). 777–780. 23 indexed citations

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