Stelios H. Zanakis

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

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Stelios H. Zanakis is a scholar working on Management Science and Operations Research, Control and Systems Engineering and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Stelios H. Zanakis has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Management Science and Operations Research, 12 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 10 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Stelios H. Zanakis's work include Optimization and Mathematical Programming (11 papers), Multi-Criteria Decision Making (6 papers) and Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (6 papers). Stelios H. Zanakis is often cited by papers focused on Optimization and Mathematical Programming (11 papers), Multi-Criteria Decision Making (6 papers) and Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (6 papers). Stelios H. Zanakis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Greece and Latvia. Stelios H. Zanakis's co-authors include Constantin Zopounidis, Anthony W. Solomon, Sandipa Dublish, Augustinos I. Dimitras, James R. Evans, Enzo R. Valenzi, Frank J. Carmone, Ali Kara, Irma Becerra‐Fernandez and Sushil Gupta and has published in prestigious journals such as Management Science, European Journal of Operational Research and Journal of International Business Studies.

In The Last Decade

Stelios H. Zanakis

51 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Multi-attribute decision making: A simulation comparison of select methods

1998 749 citations Stelios H. Zanakis et al. European Journal of Operational Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stelios H. Zanakis United States	24	955	489	452	369	275	51	2.7k
Jih‐Jeng Huang Taiwan	18	1.6k 1.7×	336 0.7×	727 1.6×	535 1.4×	193 0.7×	76	4.1k
John Kidd United Kingdom	19	1.1k 1.2×	108 0.2×	455 1.0×	292 0.8×	539 2.0×	64	3.4k
Malcolm J. Beynon United Kingdom	30	789 0.8×	240 0.5×	512 1.1×	153 0.4×	399 1.5×	100	3.2k
Yi‐Chung Hu Taiwan	30	1.2k 1.2×	224 0.5×	699 1.5×	159 0.4×	246 0.9×	142	2.5k
Liang‐Hsuan Chen Taiwan	26	777 0.8×	121 0.2×	175 0.4×	391 1.1×	96 0.3×	48	1.9k
Shuai Zhang China	32	485 0.5×	314 0.6×	749 1.7×	283 0.8×	178 0.6×	172	3.7k
Ph. Vincke Belgium	10	2.4k 2.5×	77 0.2×	573 1.3×	662 1.8×	336 1.2×	12	4.3k
Zhongsheng Hua China	37	1.5k 1.6×	247 0.5×	584 1.3×	393 1.1×	512 1.9×	167	5.7k
Rami Zwick United States	21	2.0k 2.1×	90 0.2×	1.1k 2.4×	608 1.6×	484 1.8×	62	5.0k
Fouad Ben Abdelaziz France	23	552 0.6×	132 0.3×	192 0.4×	375 1.0×	252 0.9×	169	2.3k

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Zanakis, Stelios H., Maija Renko, & Amanda Bullough. (2012). NASCENT ENTREPRENEURS AND THE TRANSITION TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP: WHY DO PEOPLE START NEW BUSINESSES?. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship. 17(1). 1250001–1250001. 45 indexed citations

Zanakis, Stelios H. & Irma Becerra‐Fernandez. (2004). Competitiveness of nations: A knowledge discovery examination. European Journal of Operational Research. 166(1). 185–211. 53 indexed citations

Cooper, W. W., Lawrence M. Seiford, Emmanuel Thanassoulis, & Stelios H. Zanakis. (2003). DEA and its uses in different countries. European Journal of Operational Research. 154(2). 337–344. 42 indexed citations

Zanakis, Stelios H., et al.. (2003). Ancient Greeks' Practices and Contributions in Public and Entrepreneurship Decision Making. INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics. 33(6). 72–88. 13 indexed citations

Doumpos, Michael, Stelios H. Zanakis, & Constantin Zopounidis. (2001). Multicriteria Preference Disaggregation for Classification Problems with an Application to Global Investing Risk*. Decision Sciences. 32(2). 333–386. 43 indexed citations

Zanakis, Stelios H., Georgios I. Doukidis, & Constantin Zopounidis. (2000). Decision Making: Recent Developments and Worldwide Applications. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 32 indexed citations

Zanakis, Stelios H. & C. Zopounidis. (1997). Prediction of Greek company takeovers via multivariate analysis of financial ratios. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 48(7). 678–687. 24 indexed citations

Zanakis, Stelios H. & Enzo R. Valenzi. (1997). Student Anxiety and Attitudes in Business Statistics. Journal of Education for Business. 73(1). 10–16. 97 indexed citations

Zografos, Konstantinos G., et al.. (1997). A Multicriteria Decision Making Method for Evaluating Alternative Transportation Projects. IFAC Proceedings Volumes. 30(8). 137–143. 9 indexed citations

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Dimitras, Augustinos I., Stelios H. Zanakis, & Constantin Zopounidis. (1996). A survey of business failures with an emphasis on prediction methods and industrial applications. European Journal of Operational Research. 90(3). 487–513. 443 indexed citations

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Zanakis, Stelios H., et al.. (1995). A review of program evaluation and fund allocation methods within the service and government sectors. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 29(1). 59–79. 48 indexed citations

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Muralidhar, Krishnamurty & Stelios H. Zanakis. (1992). A Simple Minimum‐Bias Percentile Estimator of the Location Parameter for the Gamma, Weibull, and Log‐Normal Distributions. Decision Sciences. 23(4). 862–879. 13 indexed citations

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Zanakis, Stelios H.. (1991). A multicriteria approach for library needs assessment and budget allocation. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 25(3). 233–245. 7 indexed citations

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Zanakis, Stelios H. & Jerzy Kyparisis. (1986). A review of maximum likelihood estimation methods for the three-parameter weibull distribution. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 25(1-2). 53–73. 33 indexed citations

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Lawrence, Kenneth D. & Stelios H. Zanakis. (1984). Production planning and scheduling : mathematical programming applications. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 9 indexed citations

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Zanakis, Stelios H.. (1983). A staff to job assignment (partitioning) problem with multiple objectives. Computers & Operations Research. 10(4). 357–363. 13 indexed citations

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Zanakis, Stelios H. & Nancy R. Mann. (1982). A good simple percentile estimator of the weibull shape parameter for use when all three parameters are unknown. Naval Research Logistics Quarterly. 29(3). 419–428. 18 indexed citations

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Zanakis, Stelios H., et al.. (1981). A Note on Aggregate Manpower Planning Using a Markovian Goal Programming Approach. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 32(12). 1143–1144. 6 indexed citations

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Zanakis, Stelios H., et al.. (1979). Simulation of an industrial computer system—A case study. Computers & Industrial Engineering. 3(3). 203–215. 1 indexed citations

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Rosenshine, Matthew & Stelios H. Zanakis. (1976). An Analysis of Computer Center Operation. A I I E Transactions. 8(3). 298–306. 2 indexed citations

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