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42 institutions · Operations Research

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

674 researchers 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. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has the most (11, 1.6%), followed by University of Tehran (7) and Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna (7). A row opens its scientists in the subfield in the table of all authors.

#InstitutionCountryListed authorsTop 100kHighest-ranked author
1The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong1110Cheng, T. C.Edwin #4,587
2University of Tehran Iran74Taleizadeh, A. A. #14,108
3Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna Italy74Toth, Paolo #69,580
4College of Engineering United States54Kusiak, Andrew #2,668
5Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania United States53Fisher, Marshall L. #16,409
6South China University of Technology China54Li, Yina #18,675
7National University of Singapore Singapore53Goh, Mark K.h. #20,012
8University of Science and Technology of China China53Yu, Yugang #53,966
9Georgia Institute of Technology United States43Nemirovski, Arkadi S. #8,703
10Columbia University United States43Goldfarb, Donald #16,678
11Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong43Chen, Ying Ju #34,490
12Università della Calabria Italy41Longo, Francesco #35,743
13Università degli Studi di Brescia Italy43Speranza, M. Grazia #42,454
14Cardiff Business School United Kingdom42Demir, Emrah #50,667
15Khalifa University United Arab Emirates41Maalouf, Maher #65,698
16Universität Wien Austria42Hartl, Richard F. #67,068
17HEC Montréal Canada33Laporte, Gilbert #990
18INSEAD, Europe France32van Wassenhove, Luk N.V. #5,161
19Stanford Graduate School of Business United States31Lee, Hau Leung #7,575
20University of Washington United States32Tseng, Paul #10,638
21Tel Aviv University Israel33Beck, Amir #10,962
22Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Israel32Ben-Tal, Aharon #14,887
23University of Florida United States31Hager, William W. #15,295
24Polytechnique Montréal Canada32Gendreau, Michel #15,498
25Cranfield University United Kingdom31Ghadge, Abhijeet #17,776
26City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong31Xie, Min #21,162
27USC Viterbi School of Engineering United States31Pang, Jongshi #21,206
28Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Brazil31Frank, Alejandro Germán #24,326
29Tecnológico de Monterrey Mexico31Cárdenas-Barrón, Leopoldo Eduardo #25,467
30Universidad de Sevilla Spain32Lozano, Sebastián #28,525
31Olin Business School United States33Kouvelis, Panos (Panos) #32,437
32National Tsing Hua University Taiwan31Chien, Chenfu Fu #45,150
33The University of Texas at Austin United States32Charnes, Abraham #45,624
34KU Leuven Belgium33Rogge, Nicky #56,365
35Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet Norway32Sgarbossa, Fabio #56,907
36Technical University of Crete Greece33Zopounidis, Constantin D. #57,042
37The University of Burdwan India32Shaikh, Ali Akbar #59,711
38University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China31Chen, Xu #63,485
39Tianjin University China31Liu, Weihua #64,007
40Tepper School of Business United States31Balas, Egon #65,751
41University of Southampton United Kingdom32Vuong, Phan Tu #86,165
42Shanghai Jiao Tong University China30Xia, Tangbin #102,703

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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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