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Top institutions in the United States for Operations Research

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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Operations Research?

173 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Operations Research are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.2% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 52 countries in the subfield. 113 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). College of Engineering has the most (5), followed by Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (5) and Georgia Institute of Technology (4). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
173
0.2% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
113
65.3% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#1
of 52 countries in Operations Research
Highest-ranked
#421
Saaty, Thomas L.
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1College of Engineering54#4Kusiak, Andrew #2,668
2Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania53#5Fisher, Marshall L. #16,409
3Georgia Institute of Technology43#9Nemirovski, Arkadi S. #8,703
4Columbia University43#10Goldfarb, Donald #16,678
5Stanford Graduate School of Business31#19Lee, Hau Leung #7,575
6University of Washington32#20Tseng, Paul #10,638
7University of Florida31#23Hager, William W. #15,295
8USC Viterbi School of Engineering31#27Pang, Jongshi #21,206
9Olin Business School33#31Kouvelis, Panos (Panos) #32,437
10The University of Texas at Austin32#33Charnes, Abraham #45,624
11Tepper School of Business31#40Balas, Egon #65,751

The top 100 in Operations Research in the United States, in order

  1. 1
    Saaty, Thomas L.
    Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
  2. 2
    Gunasekaran, Angappa
    Pennsylvania State University
  3. 3
    Tang, Christopher S.
    UCLA Anderson School of Management
  4. 4
    Nocedal, Jorge M.
    Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
  5. 5
    Kusiak, Andrew
    College of Engineering
  6. 6
    Bertsimas, Dimitris J.
    MIT Sloan School of Management
  7. 7
    Li, Ling
    Old Dominion University
  8. 8
    Wright, Stephen J.
    School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences
  9. 9
    Shapiro, Alexander
    College of Engineering
  10. 10
    Zhang, Peter G.
    Georgia State University
  11. 11
    Lee, Hau Leung
    Stanford Graduate School of Business
  12. 12
    Tsui, Kwok L.
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  13. 13
    Nemirovski, Arkadi S.
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  14. 14
    Glover, Fred W.
    Entanglement Inc
  15. 15
    Tseng, Paul
    University of Washington
  16. 16
    Cachon, Gérard P.
    University of Pennsylvania
  17. 17
    Tavana, Madjid
    La Salle University, Philadelphia
  18. 18
    Xu, Xun
    San Jose State University
  19. 19
    Mangasarian, Olvi L.
    School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences
  20. 20
    Powell, Warren B.
    Princeton University
  21. 21
    Hager, William W.
    University of Florida
  22. 22
    Fisher, Marshall L.
    Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  23. 23
    Goldfarb, Donald
    Columbia University
  24. 24
    Pang, Jongshi
    USC Viterbi School of Engineering
  25. 25
    Whitt, Ward
    The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
  26. 26
    Zhu, Feng
    Harvard University
  27. 27
    Pinedo, Michael L.
    Leonard N. Stern School of Business
  28. 28
    Lan, Guanghui
    College of Engineering
  29. 29
    Daskin, Mark S.
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  30. 30
    Nagurney, Anna B.
    Isenberg School of Management
  31. 31
    Ye, Yinyu
    Stanford Engineering
  32. 32
    Zhu, Joe
    Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  33. 33
    Sethi, Suresh Pal
    The Naveen Jindal School of Management
  34. 34
    Lodi, Andrea
    Cornell Tech
  35. 35
    Pham, Hoang
    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
  36. 36
    Ruszczyński, Andrzej
    Rutgers University
  37. 37
    Hosseini, Seyedmohsen M.
    The University of Southern Mississippi
  38. 38
    Birge, John R.
    The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
  39. 39
    Pardalos, Panos M.
    Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
  40. 40
    Guide, V. Daniel R.
    Penn State Smeal College of Business
  41. 41
    Simchi-Levi, David
    MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
  42. 42
    Church, Richard L.
    University of California, Santa Barbara
  43. 43
    Kouvelis, Panos (Panos)
    Olin Business School
  44. 44
    Olson, David Louis
    College of Business
  45. 45
    Coit, David W.
    Rutgers University–New Brunswick
  46. 46
    MacAl, Charles M.
    Argonne National Laboratory
  47. 47
    Cooper, William W.
    McCombs School of Business
  48. 48
    Solomon, Marius M.
    D'Amore-McKim School of Business
  49. 49
    Su, Xuanming
    Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  50. 50
    Eckstein, Jonathan
    Rutgers Business School—Newark and New Brunswick
  51. 51
    Sargent, Robert G.
    Huntington Ingalls Industries
  52. 52
    Campbell, James F.
    University of Missouri-St. Louis
  53. 53
    Jones, Donald R.
    Michigan Engineering
  54. 54
    Altay, Nezih
    DePaul University
  55. 55
    Nelson, Wayne B.
    Wayne Nelson Statistical Consulting
  56. 56
    Winkler, Robert L.
    Fuqua School of Business
  57. 57
    Charnes, Abraham
    The University of Texas at Austin
  58. 58
    Mordukhovich, Boris S.
    Wayne State University
  59. 59
    Regis, Rommel G.
    Saint Joseph's University, United States
  60. 60
    Corbett, Charles J.
    UCLA Anderson School of Management
  61. 61
    Golden, Bruce L.
    Robert H. Smith School of Business
  62. 62
    Gebraeel, Nagi Z.
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  63. 63
    Orlin, James B.
    MIT Sloan School of Management
  64. 64
    Tomlin, Brian T.
    Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
  65. 65
    Hochbaum, Dorit S.
    UC Berkeley’s Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department
  66. 66
    Montgomery, Douglas C.
    Arizona State University
  67. 67
    Xu, Yangyang
    School of Science
  68. 68
    Iyengar, Garud N.
    Columbia University
  69. 69
    Zobel, Christopher W.
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  70. 70
    Ham, Andy Myoungsoo
    North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
  71. 71
    Snyder, Lawrence V.
    P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science
  72. 72
    Dong, Lingxiu
    Olin Business School
  73. 73
    Beamon, Benita M.
    University of Washington
  74. 74
    Seiford, Lawrence M.
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  75. 75
    Lewis, Adrian S.
    Cornell University
  76. 76
    Nemhauser, George L.
    College of Engineering
  77. 77
    Balas, Egon
    Tepper School of Business
  78. 78
    Keeney, Ralph L.
    Fuqua School of Business
  79. 79
    Drezner, Zvi
    California State University, Fullerton
  80. 80
    Vargas, Luis G.
    Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
  81. 81
    Netessine, Serguei
    Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  82. 82
    Bard, Jonathan F.
    The University of Texas at Austin
  83. 83
    Kou, Steven S.G.
    Questrom School of Business
  84. 84
    Van Mieghem, Jan Albert
    Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University
  85. 85
    Glynn, Peter W.
    Stanford Engineering
  86. 86
    Taylor, Terry A.
    Haas School of Business
  87. 87
    Potra, Florian A.
    University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
  88. 88
    Graves, Stephen C.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  89. 89
    Chod, Jiri
    Carroll School of Management
  90. 90
    Gupta, Surendra M.
    Northeastern University
  91. 91
    Dennis, John E.
    George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing
  92. 92
    Frazier, Peter I.
    Cornell University College of Engineering
  93. 93
    Babich, Volodymyr O.
    McDonough School of Business
  94. 94
    Swaminathan, Jayashankar M.
    UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
  95. 95
    Gupta, Jatinder N.D.
    The University of Alabama in Huntsville
  96. 96
    Burer, Samuel
    University of Iowa
  97. 97
  98. 98
    Siemsen, Enno
    Wisconsin School of Business
  99. 99
    Shanno, David F.
    Rutgers Center for Operations Research
  100. 100
    Karatas, Mumtaz
    Wright State University

173 listed scientists in Operations Research in the United States

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Data: Ioannidis, John P.A. (2026), ‘August 2026 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”’, Mendeley Data, v9, doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9. 2026 list, ranked by composite citation score (c) excluding self-citations.

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