Gilbert Laporte

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Gilbert Laporte is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Building and Construction and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Gilbert Laporte has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 7 papers in Building and Construction and 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Gilbert Laporte's work include Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (21 papers), Optimization and Packing Problems (11 papers) and Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization (9 papers). Gilbert Laporte is often cited by papers focused on Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (21 papers), Optimization and Packing Problems (11 papers) and Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization (9 papers). Gilbert Laporte collaborates with scholars based in Canada, France and Spain. Gilbert Laporte's co-authors include Leandro C. Coelho, Jean-François Cordeau, Silvano Martello, Frédéric Semet, Michel Gendreau, Chelliah Sriskandarajah, Ardavan Asef-Vaziri, Jacques Renaud, Jean‐François Cordeau and Fabien Cornillier and has published in prestigious journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics and Journal of the Operational Research Society.

In The Last Decade

Gilbert Laporte

26 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.

  1. Thirty Years of Inventory Routing
    2013 413 citations Leandro C. Coelho, Jean-François Cordeau et al. Transportation Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gilbert Laporte Canada 19 1.9k 581 560 280 236 26 2.3k
Arne Løkketangen Norway 23 1.7k 0.9× 457 0.8× 581 1.0× 228 0.8× 124 0.5× 51 2.0k
Roberto Tadei Italy 30 2.5k 1.3× 914 1.6× 504 0.9× 193 0.7× 180 0.8× 144 3.3k
Walter Rei Canada 25 1.7k 0.9× 661 1.1× 801 1.4× 175 0.6× 216 0.9× 56 2.5k
Bülent Çatay Türkiye 23 1.5k 0.8× 492 0.8× 1.1k 2.0× 195 0.7× 183 0.8× 67 2.2k
Gianpaolo Ghiani Italy 26 1.7k 0.9× 702 1.2× 889 1.6× 142 0.5× 255 1.1× 96 2.4k
Jacques Renaud Canada 29 2.2k 1.2× 854 1.5× 811 1.4× 145 0.5× 600 2.5× 79 2.8k
Haoxun Chen France 28 1.5k 0.8× 401 0.7× 400 0.7× 520 1.9× 131 0.6× 89 2.3k
Christos D. Tarantilis Greece 39 2.9k 1.5× 896 1.5× 1.2k 2.1× 185 0.7× 128 0.5× 77 3.3k
Bernard Gendron Canada 32 1.6k 0.8× 496 0.9× 339 0.6× 170 0.6× 463 2.0× 116 2.7k
Fulya Altıparmak Türkiye 21 1.2k 0.7× 364 0.6× 356 0.6× 419 1.5× 173 0.7× 44 2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gilbert Laporte

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All Works

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Barrena, Eva, David Canca, Leandro C. Coelho, & Gilbert Laporte. (2022). Analysis of the selective traveling salesman problem with time-dependent profits. Top. 31(1). 165–193. 5 indexed citations
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Coelho, Leandro C., et al.. (2017). Solving a vendor-managed inventory routing problem arising in the distribution of bottled water in Morocco. European J of Industrial Engineering. 11(2). 168–168. 3 indexed citations
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Coelho, Leandro C., Jacques Renaud, & Gilbert Laporte. (2016). Road-based goods transportation: a survey of real-world logistics applications from 2000 to 2015. INFOR Information Systems and Operational Research. 54(2). 79–96. 30 indexed citations
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Coelho, Leandro C., et al.. (2016). An Inventory-Routing Problem with Pickups and Deliveries Arising in the Replenishment of Automated Teller Machines. Transportation Science. 50(3). 1077–1091. 56 indexed citations
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Coelho, Leandro C. & Gilbert Laporte. (2014). An optimised target-level inventory replenishment policy for vendor-managed inventory systems. International Journal of Production Research. 53(12). 3651–3660. 17 indexed citations
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Coelho, Leandro C. & Gilbert Laporte. (2014). Classification, models and exact algorithms for multi-compartment delivery problems. European Journal of Operational Research. 242(3). 854–864. 58 indexed citations
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Coelho, Leandro C. & Gilbert Laporte. (2014). Optimal joint replenishment, delivery and inventory management policies for perishable products. Computers & Operations Research. 47. 42–52. 156 indexed citations
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Coelho, Leandro C. & Gilbert Laporte. (2013). A branch-and-cut algorithm for the multi-product multi-vehicle inventory-routing problem. International Journal of Production Research. 51(23-24). 7156–7169. 116 indexed citations
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Coelho, Leandro C. & Gilbert Laporte. (2013). Improved solutions for inventory-routing problems through valid inequalities and input ordering. International Journal of Production Economics. 155. 391–397. 117 indexed citations
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Coelho, Leandro C. & Gilbert Laporte. (2013). A comparison of several enumerative algorithms for Sudoku. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 65(10). 1602–1610. 7 indexed citations
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Coelho, Leandro C., Jean-François Cordeau, & Gilbert Laporte. (2012). Consistency in multi-vehicle inventory-routing. Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies. 24. 270–287. 157 indexed citations
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Coelho, Leandro C. & Gilbert Laporte. (2012). The exact solution of several classes of inventory-routing problems. Computers & Operations Research. 40(2). 558–565. 152 indexed citations
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Feillet, Dominique, Gilbert Laporte, & Frédéric Semet. (2010). Preface Special Issue: Networks Optimization Workshop. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 1 indexed citations
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Erdoğan, Güneş, Jean‐François Cordeau, & Gilbert Laporte. (2009). The Attractive Traveling Salesman Problem. European Journal of Operational Research. 203(1). 59–69. 21 indexed citations
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Farahani, Reza Zanjirani, et al.. (2005). A practical exact algorithm for the shortest loop design problem in a block layout. International Journal of Production Research. 43(9). 1879–1887. 22 indexed citations
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Laporte, Gilbert, İmdat Kara, & Tolga Bektaş. (2003). A Note on the Lifted Miller-Tucker-Zemlin Subtour Elimination Constraints for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem. Les Cahiers du GERAD. 1–7. 1 indexed citations
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Laporte, Gilbert & Frédéric Semet. (1999). Computational Evaluation Of A Transformation Procedure For The Symmetric Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem. INFOR Information Systems and Operational Research. 37(2). 114–120. 31 indexed citations
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Hodgson, Michael J., Gilbert Laporte, & Frédéric Semet. (1998). A Covering Tour Model for Planning Mobile Health Care Facilities in SuhumDistrict, Ghama. Journal of Regional Science. 38(4). 621–638. 73 indexed citations
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Laporte, Gilbert, Ardavan Asef-Vaziri, & Chelliah Sriskandarajah. (1996). Some Applications of the Generalized Travelling Salesman Problem. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 47(12). 1461–1467. 129 indexed citations
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Laporte, Gilbert & Silvano Martello. (1990). The selective travelling salesman problem. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 26(2-3). 193–207. 303 indexed citations

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