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Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

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Research works
36
▲ 49% vs 2013–17
Citations
3.8k
105.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
60.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
65%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Computer Science: 1.44× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.68× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringMathematics: 3.38× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 9.09× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 14.85× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7.67× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.07× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.58× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 14.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Metaheuristics, Innovation, E-commerce, Demand Forecasting, Inventory Management, Heuristic Algorithms, Risk Management and Social Capital.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in all years in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 31 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 31 words, with their numbers
  1. Innovation2▲ 6.7×11 topics
  2. Metaheuristics2▲ 74×3 topics
  3. Demand Forecasting2▲ 112×2 topics
  4. E-commerce2▲ 19×3 topics
  5. Heuristic Algorithms2▲ 117×2 topics
  6. Inventory Management2▲ 65×2 topics
  7. Risk Management2▲ 13×3 topics
  8. Consumer Behavior2▲ 11×5 topics
  9. Social Capital2▲ 10×8 topics
  10. Service Quality1▲ 22×2 topics
  11. Tabu Search1▲ 180×1 topic
  12. User Satisfaction1▲ 26×2 topics
  13. Vehicle Routing Problem1▲ 180×1 topic
  14. Corporate Governance1▲ 6.7×6 topics
  15. Dynamic Pricing1▲ 88×2 topics
  16. E-Learning1▲ 6.5×2 topics
  17. Environmental Impacts1▲ 17×2 topics
  18. Incentives1▲ 49×2 topics
  19. Information Sharing1▲ 52×1 topic
  20. Mechanism Design1▲ 67×2 topics
  21. Supply Chain Coordination1▲ 128×1 topic
  22. Sustainability1▲ 1.86×5 topics
  23. Genetic Algorithm1▲ 17×4 topics
  24. Marketing Strategies1▲ 29×1 topic
  25. Public Transport1▲ 55×1 topic
  26. Retail Economics1▲ 108×1 topic
  27. Strategic Alliances1▲ 29×3 topics
  28. Technology1▲ 7.0×3 topics
  29. Travel Behavior1▲ 42×1 topic
  30. Crowdsourcing1▲ 47×3 topics
  31. Game Theory1▲ 21×4 topics

Which research topics does Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Corporate Finance and Governance, Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research, Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing and Supply Chain and Inventory Management.

Corporate Finance and Go…0Corporate Finance and Governance: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Optimization Al…0Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research: 0 fractional worksConsumer Market Behavior…0Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing: 0 fractional worksSupply Chain and Invento…0Supply Chain and Inventory Management: 0 fractional worksTransportation and Mobility Innovations: 0 fractional worksEducational Games and Gamification: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Queuing Theory …0Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis: 0 fractional worksBanking stability, regulation, efficiency: 0 fractional worksGame Theory and Applications: 0 fractional worksReliability and Maintena…0Reliability and Maintenance Optimization: 0 fractional works
AccountingNumerical AnalysisMarketingManagement Information Systems5 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Corporate Finance and Governance Accounting 0 works
  2. 2 Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research Numerical Analysis 0 works
  3. 3 Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing Marketing 0 works
  4. 4 Supply Chain and Inventory Management Management Information Systems 0 works
  5. 5 Transportation and Mobility Innovations Automotive Engineering 0 works
  6. 6 Educational Games and Gamification Developmental and Educational Psychology 0 works
  7. 7 Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis Management Information Systems 0 works
  8. 8 Banking stability, regulation, efficiency Finance 0 works
  9. 9 Game Theory and Applications Management Science and Operations Research 0 works
  10. 10 Reliability and Maintenance Optimization Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world’s own shares — the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available64.9%not open35.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors67.6%domestic only32.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 49% higher than in 2013–2017.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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