Research trends in combinatorial optimisation

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Real-world problems are becoming highly complex and, therefore, have to be solved with combinatorial optimisation (CO) techniques.

• Motivated by the strong increase of publications on CO, 8,393 articles from this research field are subjected to a bibliometric analysis.
• The corpus of literature is examined using mathematical methods and a novel algorithm for keyword analysis.
• In addition to the most relevant countries, organisations and authors as well as their collaborations, the most relevant CO problems, solution methods and application areas are presented.