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IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation is a peer-reviewed journal published by IEEE, covering Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications, Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research, Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms. Over its lifetime it has published 3,256 papers, which have received 376,963 citations.

PublisherIEEE
Reference styleNumbered (IEEE)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
[1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, "A representative article title," IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 45–58, 2023.

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Abbreviation (ISO-4)TEVC
Publishes research inEvolutionary Algorithms and Applications Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies Ferroelectric and Negative Capacitance Devices
ISSN1089-778X
Citation impact (2-yr)5.44
h-index248
i10-index1,694
Top institutions publishing hereSouthern University of Science and Technology
Journal websitecis.ieee.org
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Papers published in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation per year

94
2014
105
2015
103
2016
132
2017
95
2018
118
2019
90
2020
160
2021
212
2022
170
2023
200
2024
220
2025

Citation impact of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation by publication year

9.4K
2014
9.7K
2015
10.9K
2016
11.1K
2017
8.7K
2018
10.7K
2019
5.2K
2020
8.2K
2021
7.6K
2022
4.4K
2023
2.1K
2024
656
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

A fast and elitist multiobjective genetic algorithm: NSGA-II

Kalyanmoy Deb, Amrit Pratap, Sakshi Agarwal et al. · 1 Apr 2002

Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) that use non-dominated sorting and sharing have been criticized mainly for: (1) their O(MN/sup 3/) computational complexity (where M is the number of objectives and N is the population size); (2) their non-elitism approach; and (3) the need to specify a sharing parameter. In this paper, we suggest a non-dominated sorting-based…

48,172 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
No free lunch theorems for optimization

David H. Wolpert, William G. Macready · 1 Apr 1997

A framework is developed to explore the connection between effective optimization algorithms and the problems they are solving. A number of "no free lunch" (NFL) theorems are presented which establish that for any algorithm, any elevated performance over one class of problems is offset by performance over another class. These theorems result in a geometric…

14,035 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
MOEA/D: A Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm Based on Decomposition

Qingfu Zhang, Hui Li · 29 Nov 2007

Decomposition is a basic strategy in traditional multiobjective optimization. However, it has not yet been widely used in multiobjective evolutionary optimization. This paper proposes a multiobjective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition (MOEA/D). It decomposes a multiobjective optimization problem into a number of scalar optimization subproblems and optimizes them simultaneously. Each subproblem is optimized by only…

9,652 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
The particle swarm - explosion, stability, and convergence in a multidimensional complex space

Maurice Clerc, James Kennedy · 1 Jan 2002

The particle swarm is an algorithm for finding optimal regions of complex search spaces through the interaction of individuals in a population of particles. This paper analyzes a particle's trajectory as it moves in discrete time (the algebraic view), then progresses to the view of it in continuous time (the analytical view). A five-dimensional depiction…

8,922 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms: a comparative case study and the strength Pareto approach

Eckart Zitzler, Lothar Thiele · 1 Jan 1999

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are often well-suited for optimization problems involving several, often conflicting objectives. Since 1985, various evolutionary approaches to multiobjective optimization have been developed that are capable of searching for multiple solutions concurrently in a single run. However, the few comparative studies of different methods presented up to now remain mostly qualitative and are…

8,645 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

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