Thibaut Vidal

6.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
69 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Thibaut Vidal is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Thibaut Vidal has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 27 papers in Automotive Engineering and 15 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Thibaut Vidal's work include Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (51 papers), Transportation and Mobility Innovations (25 papers) and Optimization and Packing Problems (17 papers). Thibaut Vidal is often cited by papers focused on Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (51 papers), Transportation and Mobility Innovations (25 papers) and Optimization and Packing Problems (17 papers). Thibaut Vidal collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, Canada and France. Thibaut Vidal's co-authors include Michel Gendreau, Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Christian Prins, Anand Subramanian, Richard F. Hartl, Walter Rei, Nadia Lahrichi, Artur Alves Pessoa, Marcus Poggi and Luiz Satoru Ochi and has published in prestigious journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Expert Systems with Applications and Operations Research.

In The Last Decade

Thibaut Vidal

63 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Multidepot and Periodic Vehicle Routing Problems

2012 471 citations Thibaut Vidal, Teodor Gabriel Crainic et al. profile →
A hybrid genetic algorithm with adaptive diversity management for a large class of vehicle routing problems with time-windows

2012 390 citations Thibaut Vidal, Teodor Gabriel Crainic et al. Computers & Operations Research profile →
A unified solution framework for multi-attribute vehicle routing problems

2013 291 citations Thibaut Vidal, Teodor Gabriel Crainic et al. European Journal of Operational Research profile →
New benchmark instances for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem

2016 277 citations Eduardo Uchoa, Diego Pecin et al. European Journal of Operational Research profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thibaut Vidal Brazil	28	3.1k	1.6k	1.2k	491	327	69	3.7k
Dominique Feillet France	37	3.5k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	340 0.7×	703 2.1×	97	4.2k
Roberto Baldacci Italy	35	3.5k 1.1×	1.8k 1.2×	1.6k 1.3×	215 0.4×	490 1.5×	108	4.2k
Juan‐José Salazar‐González Spain	34	2.7k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	835 0.7×	495 1.0×	436 1.3×	105	3.4k
Olli Bräysy Finland	23	3.1k 1.0×	1.6k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	559 1.1×	340 1.0×	40	3.5k
Anand Subramanian Brazil	29	2.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	716 0.6×	352 0.7×	350 1.1×	96	2.8k
Claudia Archetti Italy	40	4.0k 1.3×	1.8k 1.2×	1.7k 1.5×	306 0.6×	466 1.4×	133	4.8k
Eduardo Uchoa Brazil	28	2.3k 0.7×	937 0.6×	635 0.5×	318 0.6×	224 0.7×	85	2.8k
Guy Desaulniers Canada	39	3.6k 1.2×	1.5k 1.0×	879 0.8×	195 0.4×	608 1.9×	187	4.4k
Aristide Mingozzi Italy	33	3.4k 1.1×	1.7k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	229 0.5×	505 1.5×	49	4.0k
Christos D. Tarantilis Greece	39	2.9k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	896 0.8×	357 0.7×	249 0.8×	77	3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Thibaut Vidal

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thibaut Vidal

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Vidal, Thibaut, et al.. (2025). Adaptive Partitioning for Chance-Constrained Problems with Finite Support. SIAM Journal on Optimization. 35(1). 476–505.

Schiffer, Maximilian, et al.. (2025). Support vector machines with the hard-margin loss: optimal training via combinatorial Benders’ cuts. Journal of Global Optimization. 92(1). 205–225.

Gendreau, Michel, et al.. (2025). Workload equity in multiperiod vehicle routing problems. International Transactions in Operational Research. 33(1). 245–267. 1 indexed citations

Archetti, Claudia, et al.. (2025). Large neighborhood and hybrid genetic search for inventory routing problems. European Journal of Operational Research.

Delage, Erick, et al.. (2024). A survey of contextual optimization methods for decision-making under uncertainty. European Journal of Operational Research. 320(2). 271–289. 36 indexed citations

Garcia, Joaquim Dias, et al.. (2024). Regularization and optimization in model-based clustering. Pattern Recognition. 150. 110310–110310. 7 indexed citations

Martinelli, Rafael, et al.. (2023). Electric Vehicle Fleets: Scalable Route and Recharge Scheduling Through Column Generation. Transportation Science. 57(3). 631–646. 6 indexed citations

Florio, Alexandre M., Dominique Feillet, Marcus Poggi, & Thibaut Vidal. (2022). Vehicle Routing with Stochastic Demands and Partial Reoptimization. Transportation Science. 56(5). 1393–1408. 13 indexed citations

Florio, Alexandre M., Michel Gendreau, Richard F. Hartl, Stefan Minner, & Thibaut Vidal. (2022). Recent advances in vehicle routing with stochastic demands: Bayesian learning for correlated demands and elementary branch-price-and-cut. European Journal of Operational Research. 306(3). 1081–1093. 14 indexed citations

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Martinelli, Rafael, et al.. (2022). Exponential-Size Neighborhoods for the Pickup-and-Delivery Traveling Salesman Problem. Transportation Science. 57(2). 463–481. 4 indexed citations

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Vidal, Thibaut & Maximilian Schiffer. (2020). Born-again Tree Ensembles. PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal). 1. 9743–9753. 1 indexed citations

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Vidal, Thibaut, et al.. (2020). The vehicle routing problem with arrival time diversification on a multigraph. European Journal of Operational Research. 286(2). 564–575. 20 indexed citations

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Vidal, Thibaut. (2020). Hybrid Genetic Search for the CVRP: Open-Source Implementation and SWAP* Neighborhood. arXiv (Cornell University). 112 indexed citations

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Fagerholt, Kjetil, et al.. (2019). Bi-objective offshore supply vessel planning with costs and persistence objectives. Computers & Operations Research. 111. 285–296. 11 indexed citations

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Matl, Piotr, Richard F. Hartl, & Thibaut Vidal. (2019). Leveraging single‐objective heuristics to solve bi‐objective problems: Heuristic box splitting and its application to vehicle routing. Networks. 73(4). 382–400. 14 indexed citations

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Hiermann, Gerhard, Richard F. Hartl, Jakob Puchinger, & Thibaut Vidal. (2018). Routing a mix of conventional, plug-in hybrid, and electric vehicles. European Journal of Operational Research. 272(1). 235–248. 152 indexed citations

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Hà, Minh Hoàng, et al.. (2017). The vehicle routing problem with service level constraints. European Journal of Operational Research. 265(2). 544–558. 43 indexed citations

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Martinelli, Rafael, et al.. (2017). The minimum distance superset problem: formulations and algorithms. Journal of Global Optimization. 72(1). 27–53. 2 indexed citations

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Uchoa, Eduardo, Diego Pecin, Artur Alves Pessoa, et al.. (2016). New benchmark instances for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem. European Journal of Operational Research. 257(3). 845–858. 277 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vidal, Thibaut, Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Michel Gendreau, & Christian Prins. (2015). Timing problems and algorithms: Time decisions for sequences of activities. Networks. 65(2). 102–128. 30 indexed citations

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