Nils Boysen

10.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
175 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Nils Boysen is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Building and Construction and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nils Boysen has authored 175 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 152 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 50 papers in Building and Construction and 26 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nils Boysen's work include Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization (92 papers), Assembly Line Balancing Optimization (67 papers) and Optimization and Packing Problems (56 papers). Nils Boysen is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization (92 papers), Assembly Line Balancing Optimization (67 papers) and Optimization and Packing Problems (56 papers). Nils Boysen collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and Denmark. Nils Boysen's co-authors include Malte Fliedner, Armin Schöll, Simon Emde, Stefan Schwerdfeger, Felix Weidinger, Dirk Briskorn, Stefan Fedtke, René de Koster, Konrad Stephan and Erwin Pesch and has published in prestigious journals such as Management Science, European Journal of Operational Research and International Journal of Production Economics.

In The Last Decade

Nils Boysen

168 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

A classification of assembly line balancing problems

2006 652 citations Nils Boysen, Malte Fliedner et al. European Journal of Operational Research profile →
Warehousing in the e-commerce era: A survey

2018 429 citations Nils Boysen, Felix Weidinger et al. European Journal of Operational Research profile →
Assembly line balancing: Which model to use when?

2007 362 citations Nils Boysen, Malte Fliedner et al. profile →
Last-mile delivery concepts: a survey from an operational research perspective

2020 336 citations Nils Boysen, Stefan Schwerdfeger et al. OR Spectrum profile →
Sequencing mixed-model assembly lines: Survey, classification and model critique

2007 325 citations Nils Boysen, Malte Fliedner et al. European Journal of Operational Research profile →
Cross dock scheduling: Classification, literature review and research agenda

2009 267 citations Nils Boysen, Malte Fliedner profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nils Boysen Germany	47	6.7k	1.7k	909	439	382	175	7.6k
Christian Prins France	46	5.9k 0.9×	2.1k 1.3×	2.2k 2.4×	281 0.6×	486 1.3×	103	7.0k
Guy Desaulniers Canada	39	3.6k 0.5×	879 0.5×	1.5k 1.7×	549 1.3×	608 1.6×	187	4.4k
Dominique Feillet France	37	3.5k 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	1.6k 1.8×	199 0.5×	703 1.8×	97	4.2k
Stefan Røpke Denmark	27	5.4k 0.8×	2.1k 1.2×	2.8k 3.1×	298 0.7×	762 2.0×	57	6.4k
Claudia Archetti Italy	40	4.0k 0.6×	1.7k 1.0×	1.8k 2.0×	220 0.5×	466 1.2×	133	4.8k
Frédéric Semet France	31	3.7k 0.5×	1.4k 0.8×	1.4k 1.6×	374 0.9×	730 1.9×	83	5.1k
Roberto Baldacci Italy	35	3.5k 0.5×	1.6k 0.9×	1.8k 2.0×	144 0.3×	490 1.3×	108	4.2k
François Soumis Canada	40	5.1k 0.8×	957 0.6×	2.2k 2.4×	1.0k 2.4×	1.0k 2.7×	166	6.1k
Aristide Mingozzi Italy	33	3.4k 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	1.7k 1.9×	435 1.0×	505 1.3×	49	4.0k
Pieter Vansteenwegen Belgium	36	2.9k 0.4×	740 0.4×	1.3k 1.4×	284 0.6×	1.4k 3.7×	134	4.6k

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Bock, Stefan & Nils Boysen. (2025). Stow & pick: Optimizing combined stowing and picking tours in scattered storage warehouses. European Journal of Operational Research. 324(3). 1002–1016. 1 indexed citations

Boysen, Nils, et al.. (2025). Last-mile logistics via cargo tunnel: exact optimization approaches for the cargo tunnel scheduling problem. OR Spectrum. 47(3). 743–780. 1 indexed citations

Schwerdfeger, Stefan, Nils Boysen, Dirk Briskorn, & Konrad Stephan. (2024). Keep on moving: Optimized placement of moving walkways in airport terminals. Transportation Research Part B Methodological. 183. 102926–102926. 1 indexed citations

Bock, Stefan & Nils Boysen. (2024). Due date-oriented picker routing, an efficient exact solution algorithm, and its application to pick-from-store omnichannel retailing. European Journal of Operational Research. 321(3). 775–788. 1 indexed citations

Boysen, Nils, et al.. (2024). Public transport crowdshipping: moving shipments among parcel lockers located at public transport stations. OR Spectrum. 46(3). 873–907. 7 indexed citations

Weidinger, Felix, et al.. (2024). Picker routing in scattered storage warehouses: an evaluation of solution methods based on TSP transformations. OR Spectrum. 47(1). 35–66. 3 indexed citations

Weidinger, Felix, et al.. (2022). Matching supply and demand for free-floating car sharing: On the value of optimization. European Journal of Operational Research. 308(3). 1380–1395. 15 indexed citations

Boysen, Nils, Konrad Stephan, & Felix Weidinger. (2022). Efficient order consolidation in warehouses: The product-to-order-assignment problem in warehouses with sortation systems. IISE Transactions. 54(10). 963–975. 6 indexed citations

Boysen, Nils, et al.. (2022). The traveling salesman problem with drone resupply. OR Spectrum. 44(4). 1045–1086. 22 indexed citations

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Pesch, Erwin, et al.. (2021). The Piggyback Transportation Problem: Transporting drones launched from a flying warehouse. European Journal of Operational Research. 296(2). 504–519. 36 indexed citations

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Stephan, Konrad, Felix Weidinger, & Nils Boysen. (2021). Layout Design of Parking Lots with Mathematical Programming. Transportation Science. 55(4). 930–945. 10 indexed citations

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Boysen, Nils, et al.. (2019). Integrated truck and workforce scheduling to accelerate the unloading of trucks. Publications of Darmstadt Technical University, Institute for Business Studies (BWL).

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Weidinger, Felix & Nils Boysen. (2018). Scattered Storage: How to Distribute Stock Keeping Units All Around a Mixed-Shelves Warehouse. Transportation Science. 52(6). 1412–1427. 78 indexed citations

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Weidinger, Felix, Nils Boysen, & Dirk Briskorn. (2018). Storage Assignment with Rack-Moving Mobile Robots in KIVA Warehouses. Transportation Science. 52(6). 1479–1495. 94 indexed citations

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Boysen, Nils & Konrad Stephan. (2013). The deterministic product location problem under a pick-by-order policy. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 161(18). 2862–2875. 19 indexed citations

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Fliedner, Malte, Nils Boysen, & Armin Schöll. (2009). Solving symmetric mixed-model multi-level just-in-time scheduling problems. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 158(3). 222–231. 13 indexed citations

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Boysen, Nils, Malte Fliedner, & Armin Schöll. (2007). Sequencing Mixed-Model Assembly Lines to Minimize Part Inventory Cost. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations

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Boysen, Nils, Malte Fliedner, & Armin Schöll. (2006). Level-Scheduling bei Variantenfließfertigung: Klassifikation, Literaturüberblick und Modellkritik. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations

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Boysen, Nils, Malte Fliedner, & Armin Schöll. (2006). A classification of assembly line balancing problems. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 4 indexed citations

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Boysen, Nils. (2005). Ameisenalgorithmen. WiSt - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium. 34(11). 607–612. 1 indexed citations

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