John Current

7.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

John Current is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and Transportation. According to data from OpenAlex, John Current has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 28 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and 17 papers in Transportation. Recurrent topics in John Current's work include Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (28 papers), Facility Location and Emergency Management (28 papers) and Transportation Planning and Optimization (15 papers). John Current is often cited by papers focused on Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (28 papers), Facility Location and Emergency Management (28 papers) and Transportation Planning and Optimization (15 papers). John Current collaborates with scholars based in United States, Portugal and Russia. John Current's co-authors include Charles A. Weber, W.C. Benton, David A. Schilling, Anand Desai, Charles ReVelle, Jared L. Cohon, Hokey Min, João Coutinho‐Rodrigues, Hasan Pirkul and Samuel J. Ratick and has published in prestigious journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society and Transportation Research Part B Methodological.

In The Last Decade

John Current

52 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

Vendor selection criteria and methods 1991 2026 2002 2014 1991 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

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. Vendor selection criteria and methods
    1991 1.5k citations Charles A. Weber, John Current et al. European Journal of Operational 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
John Current United States 33 2.0k 1.7k 1.5k 1.3k 1.3k 55 5.4k
Patrick T. Harker United States 42 2.1k 1.0× 1.0k 0.6× 845 0.6× 766 0.6× 379 0.3× 104 7.9k
Chung‐Piaw Teo Singapore 37 912 0.5× 1.4k 0.8× 1.5k 1.0× 863 0.7× 576 0.5× 130 4.2k
Reza Zanjirani Farahani United Kingdom 41 777 0.4× 2.4k 1.4× 1.9k 1.2× 2.5k 1.9× 1.9k 1.5× 112 7.3k
Stein W. Wallace Norway 35 1.7k 0.9× 1.3k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 808 0.6× 255 0.2× 142 5.8k
Stefan Nickel Germany 43 795 0.4× 3.2k 1.9× 1.3k 0.9× 2.0k 1.5× 2.5k 2.0× 181 7.0k
John R. Birge United States 45 3.1k 1.6× 1.7k 1.0× 2.2k 1.5× 1.3k 1.0× 447 0.4× 199 10.6k
Fariborz Jolai Iran 50 1.1k 0.6× 4.0k 2.4× 1.6k 1.1× 2.1k 1.6× 765 0.6× 300 8.1k
Gang Yu United States 41 2.3k 1.2× 2.3k 1.4× 1.7k 1.1× 1.4k 1.0× 366 0.3× 115 6.3k
Behnam Vahdani Iran 42 2.1k 1.1× 1.3k 0.8× 628 0.4× 1.2k 0.9× 544 0.4× 158 4.6k
Jiuh‐Biing Sheu Taiwan 46 542 0.3× 2.0k 1.2× 1.4k 0.9× 2.8k 2.1× 1.8k 1.4× 164 7.3k

Countries citing papers authored by John Current

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Current

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Current

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Current. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Current 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 John Current. John Current is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Church, Richard L., John Current, & Mark S. Daskin. (2009). In Tribute to Dr. Charles S. ReVelle. Geographical Analysis. 41(1). 3–8. 2 indexed citations
2.
Current, John, et al.. (2006). The hub location and network design problem with fixed and variable arc costs: formulation and dual-based solution heuristic. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 59(1). 80–89. 58 indexed citations
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Imai, Akio, Etsuko Nishimura, & John Current. (2005). A Lagrangian relaxation-based heuristic for the vehicle routing with full container load. European Journal of Operational Research. 176(1). 87–105. 129 indexed citations
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Current, John & Charles A. Weber. (2003). Purchaser‐originated benchmarking: PROBING. Benchmarking An International Journal. 10(5). 431–444. 3 indexed citations
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Weber, Charles A., John Current, & Anand Desai. (2000). VENDOR: A STRUCTURED APPROACH TO VENDOR SELECTION AND NEGOTIATION. Journal of Business Logistics. 38 indexed citations
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Weber, Charles A., John Current, & Anand Desai. (2000). An optimization approach to determining the number of vendors to employ. Supply Chain Management An International Journal. 5(2). 90–98. 262 indexed citations
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Weber, Charles A., John Current, & Anand Desai. (1998). Non-cooperative negotiation strategies for vendor selection. European Journal of Operational Research. 108(1). 208–223. 201 indexed citations
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Rolland, É., David A. Schilling, & John Current. (1997). An efficient tabu search procedure for the p-Median Problem. European Journal of Operational Research. 96(2). 329–342. 165 indexed citations
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Coutinho‐Rodrigues, João, João Clı́maco, & John Current. (1994). A PC-BASED INTERACTIVE DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR TWO OBJECTIVE DIRECT DELIVERY PROBLEMS.. Journal of Business Logistics. 6 indexed citations
10.
Current, John, Hasan Pirkul, & É. Rolland. (1994). Efficient Algorithms for Solving the Shortest Covering Path Problem. Transportation Science. 28(4). 317–327. 31 indexed citations
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Current, John. (1993). Multiple objectives in transportation network design and routing. European Journal of Operational Research. 65(1). 1–3. 6 indexed citations
12.
Church, Richard L. & John Current. (1993). Maximal covering tree problems. Naval Research Logistics (NRL). 40(1). 129–142. 8 indexed citations
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Schilling, David A., et al.. (1992). THE MULTIPLE DEPOT VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM WITH BACKHAULING.. Journal of Business Logistics. 31 indexed citations
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Current, John & Samuel J. Ratick. (1992). Introduction: Facility location modeling. Papers of the Regional Science Association. 71(3). 193–197. 1 indexed citations
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Current, John & David A. Schilling. (1990). Analysis of Errors Due to Demand Data Aggregation in the Set Covering and Maximal Covering Location Problems. Geographical Analysis. 22(2). 116–126. 82 indexed citations
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Current, John & James E. Storbeck. (1988). Capacitated Covering Models. Environment and Planning B Planning and Design. 15(2). 153–163. 83 indexed citations
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Current, John, Charles ReVelle, & Jared L. Cohon. (1988). The Minimum‐Covering/Shortest‐Path Problem*. Decision Sciences. 19(3). 490–503. 32 indexed citations
18.
Current, John & James E. Storbeck. (1987). Satisficing solutions to infeasible set partitions. Environment and Planning B Planning and Design. 14(2). 183–192. 5 indexed citations
19.
Current, John & Hokey Min. (1986). Multiobjective design of transportation networks: Taxonomy and annotation. European Journal of Operational Research. 26(2). 187–201. 99 indexed citations
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Current, John, Charles ReVelle, & Jared L. Cohon. (1984). SYMPOSIUM ON LOCATION PROBLEMS: IN MEMORY OF LEON COOPER. Journal of Regional Science. 24(2). 161–183. 48 indexed citations

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