Martin L. Puterman

15.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
117 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

Martin L. Puterman is a scholar working on Management Information Systems, Economics and Econometrics and Emergency Medical Services. According to data from OpenAlex, Martin L. Puterman has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Management Information Systems, 24 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 23 papers in Emergency Medical Services. Recurrent topics in Martin L. Puterman's work include Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization (23 papers), Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis (17 papers) and Supply Chain and Inventory Management (11 papers). Martin L. Puterman is often cited by papers focused on Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization (23 papers), Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis (17 papers) and Supply Chain and Inventory Management (11 papers). Martin L. Puterman collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Israel. Martin L. Puterman's co-authors include Laurence A. Baxter, Jonathan Patrick, Maurice Queyranne, Brian G. Leroux, Scott Tyldesley, Peiming Wang, Peter Whittle, Antoine Sauré, Iain Cockburn and Arnab Bisi and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

In The Last Decade

Martin L. Puterman

116 papers receiving 9.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Markov Decision Processes: Discrete Stochastic Dynamic Programming.

1995 5.0k citations Martin L. Puterman et al. profile →
Markov Decision Processes: Discrete Stochastic Dynamic Programming

1995 1.4k citations Martin L. Puterman et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Martin L. Puterman Canada	34	3.0k	2.0k	1.7k	1.5k	1.4k	117	10.0k
Mark J. Schervish United States	31	1.9k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	3.0k 1.8×	421 0.3×	1.2k 0.9×	118	10.6k
Warren B. Powell United States	60	2.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	2.2k 1.3×	2.6k 1.7×	1.4k 1.0×	269	12.6k
Pãnos M. Pardalos United States	60	2.7k 0.9×	2.5k 1.2×	1.3k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	746 0.5×	516	15.0k
W. David Kelton United States	27	600 0.2×	1.2k 0.6×	3.5k 2.1×	443 0.3×	1.7k 1.2×	114	9.0k
Alexander Shapiro United States	55	1.8k 0.6×	903 0.5×	6.5k 3.8×	1.7k 1.1×	1.7k 1.2×	197	17.1k
Averill M. Law United States	29	557 0.2×	1.3k 0.7×	3.8k 2.2×	461 0.3×	1.8k 1.3×	91	8.9k
Michel Gendreau Canada	78	3.9k 1.3×	2.6k 1.3×	2.0k 1.2×	1.9k 1.2×	999 0.7×	407	27.0k
George L. Nemhauser United States	58	2.5k 0.8×	4.6k 2.3×	3.5k 2.0×	2.4k 1.6×	1.6k 1.2×	199	22.7k
Dimitris Bertsimas United States	73	2.4k 0.8×	2.6k 1.3×	8.0k 4.7×	4.7k 3.1×	3.4k 2.4×	371	26.5k
Bruce Golden United States	63	1.7k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	394 0.3×	434 0.3×	296	14.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Martin L. Puterman

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Puterman, Martin L., et al.. (2024). Learning risk preferences in Markov decision processes: An application to the fourth down decision in the national football league. The Annals of Applied Statistics. 18(4). 1 indexed citations

Chan, Timothy C. Y., David Madras, & Martin L. Puterman. (2018). Improving fairness in match play golf through enhanced handicap allocation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(4). 251–262. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Emma, Pablo Santibáñez, Martin L. Puterman, et al.. (2015). A Quantitative Analysis of the Relationship Between Radiation Therapy Use and Travel Time. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 93(3). 710–718. 31 indexed citations

Göçgün, Yasin & Martin L. Puterman. (2013). Dynamic scheduling with due dates and time windows: an application to chemotherapy patient appointment booking. Health Care Management Science. 17(1). 60–76. 78 indexed citations

Puterman, Martin L., Yue Zhang, Sema K. Aydede, et al.. (2012). 'If You're Not Keeping Score, You're Just Practicing': A Lean Health Care Program Evaluation Framework. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

Chow, Vincent, John French, Colleen McGahan, et al.. (2012). Patient Satisfaction after the Redesign of a Chemotherapy Booking Process. Healthcare Quarterly. 15(3). 58–68. 2 indexed citations

Lavieri, Mariel S. & Martin L. Puterman. (2009). Optimizing nursing human resource planning in British Columbia. Health Care Management Science. 12(2). 119–128. 30 indexed citations

Chen, Li, et al.. (2007). Improving the Efficiency of Hospital Porter Services, Part 1: Study Objectives and Results. Journal for Healthcare Quality. 29(1). 4–11. 18 indexed citations

Puterman, Martin L., et al.. (2007). Improving the Efficiency of Hospital Porter Services, Part 2: Schedule Optimization and Simulation Model. Journal for Healthcare Quality. 29(1). 12–18. 20 indexed citations

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Larson, Janet E., et al.. (1997). Comparative biochemistry of gestational and postnatal lung growth and development in the rat and human. Pediatric Pulmonology. 24(1). 12–21. 13 indexed citations

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Hayden, Robert, et al.. (1997). Reliability audit of a regional cardiac surgery registry. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 114(6). 903–910. 23 indexed citations

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Puterman, Martin L., et al.. (1995). Process-oriented planning and average-reward optimality. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 6(5). 1096–1103. 15 indexed citations

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Massoud, Emad, Harmanjatinder S. Sekhon, Avi Rotschild, et al.. (1993). In vitro branching morphogenesis of the fetal rat lung. Pediatric Pulmonology. 15(2). 89–97. 17 indexed citations

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Sándor, G, et al.. (1992). Early Prediction of Anthracycline Cardiomyopathy Using Standard M-Mode and Digitized Echocardiography. Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. 14(2). 151–157. 7 indexed citations

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Lockitch, Gillian, Martin L. Puterman, William Godolphin, et al.. (1989). Infection and immunity in Down syndrome: A trial of long-term low oral doses of zinc. The Journal of Pediatrics. 114(5). 781–787. 30 indexed citations

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Magil, Alex B., et al.. (1988). Prognostic factors in diffuse proliferative lupus glomerulonephritis. Kidney International. 34(4). 511–517. 74 indexed citations

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Dijk, N.M. van & Martin L. Puterman. (1988). Perturbation theory for Markov reward processes with applications to queueing systems. Advances in Applied Probability. 20(1). 79–98. 3 indexed citations

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Sándor, G, et al.. (1986). Effect of pressure loading, volume loading and surgery on left ventricular chamber and myocardial stiffness in congenital heart disease, with a reevaluation of normal pediatric values. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 8(2). 371–378. 7 indexed citations

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Puterman, Martin L., et al.. (1985). Ridge estimation in regression problems with autocorrelated errors: A monte carlo study. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation. 14(3). 577–613. 7 indexed citations

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Puterman, Martin L.. (1979). Dynamic Programming and Its Application. 35 indexed citations

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