Bibliometrics in operations research and management science: a university analysis
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Bibliometrics in operations research and management science: a university analysis Sigifredo Laengle1 · José M. Merigó1,2 · Nikunja Mohan Modak3 · Jian-Bo Yang4 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2018
Abstract Many universities around the World have made important contributions in the field of operations research and management science. This article presents the most productive and influential universities between 1991 and 2015. For doing so, we use the Web of Science database in order to search for the information which is usually regarded as the most relevant for scientific research. The results show the country of origin of the leading universities being mainly from North America and Asia and especially from USA and China. The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) of France is the most productive university while the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) of USA is the most influential one. The temporal evolution shows that USA is trailing its dominancy while China progressing quickly. The evaluation also reveals that Asian universities outperform North American universities during the last 5 years. Keywords Operations research and management science · Bibliometrics · Web of Science · University analysis
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Nikunja Mohan Modak [email protected] Sigifredo Laengle [email protected] José M. Merigó [email protected] Jian-Bo Yang [email protected]
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Department of Management Control and Information Systems, School of Economics and Business, University of Chile, Av. Diagonal Paraguay 257, 8330015 Santiago, Chile
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School of Systems, Management and Leadership, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia
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Palpara Vidyamandir, Chakdaha, West Bengal 741222, India
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Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9SS, UK
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Annals of Operations Research
1 Introduction Operations research and management science (OR–MS) is originated from the three fields: military operations, computer science and economics. Success of OR–MS in military operations influenced others to develop and apply it in industrial problems since late 1940s. Since the 1950s OR–MS has developed rapidly in universities and also in industries. Now, the OR–MS community has developed well in application, modeling and solution procedure. Researchers/practitioners are using OR–MS to enhance the quality of decisions and processes in different areas like finance, manufacturing, marketing and telecommunications. It now becomes a foremost part of the global modern movement towards the exercise of advanced analytics in industry and scientific research. Wysocki (1979) presented a bibliographic study of 300 papers written on OR–MS aiming at classifying these works to create a research tradition. Corbett and Van Wassenhove (1993) presented a temporal analysis from 1956 to 1991 on OR–MS publications in Harvard Business Review (HBR), Operations Research and Journal of the Operationa
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