- Author
- Mariana A. Londe, Luciana S. Pessoa, Carlos E. Andrade and Mauricio G.C. Resende
- Published
- 2 May 2024
- Kind
- Technical report, systematic literature review with bibliometric analysis
- Original
- arxiv.org/html/2405.01765v1
- Subject
- Mathematics and optimization
What it is
Two Brazilian and two US-based researchers wrote a technical report. It follows an eight-step review method and uses the Scopus database. It asks who the key authors and papers are and how themes changed.
What it says
- The review covers 253 articles from before 31 December 2023, from Scopus and snowball searches.
- It finds 89% of the papers appeared in 2012 to 2023, after the formal definition.
- It names Resende and Gonçalves as the most influential authors.
- It finds Brazil, the USA and Portugal have by far the most authors.
- Co-citation analysis yields a backbone of foundational works and a chronological guide.
- Keyword analysis splits the papers into three periods and tracks how themes shifted.
- The report says the method's key trait is a problem-agnostic design.
What evidence it gives
The report offers counts from a Scopus search plus snowballing. It has tables of authors, institutions and countries. It also has citation and keyword network maps. It describes each highly cited paper in a sentence or two. It runs no experiments of its own.
Interests and limits
Two of the four authors, Resende and Andrade, are among the ten most prolific authors. The search used one database and excluded preprints, theses and reports, which the authors note. The most influential paper is one of the co-author's. The report counts citations and does not test the algorithm.