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Vlerick Business School

In research, Vlerick Business School stands highest in Social Sciences (#7,043 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Business, Management and Accounting (Business, Management and Accounting is 9.5× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#12,842
of 22,385 · #6,887 all time
Rank in Belgium
#57
of 105
Research works
794
▲ 3% vs 2018-21
Citations
32k
40.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
19.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.04×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
38%
world 40%
International
45%
world 18%
Vlerick Business School

What is Vlerick Business School known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #7,043 of 9,585 20.6%86 #2830

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Vlerick Business School sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Vlerick Business School work in?

In 2022-now, 71% of research at Vlerick Business School is in Social Sciences, 19% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Business, Management and Accounting (31%), Social Sciences (17%), Engineering (11%). It does 2.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 94 fractional works · 70.8% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 41 fractional works · 30.5% of its workAccounting: 11 fractional works · 8.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 9 fractional works · 6.8% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 8 fractional works · 5.7% of its workManagement Information Systems: 5 fractional works · 3.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 4 fractional works · 3.3% of its workMarketing: 4 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 22 fractional works · 16.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 11 fractional works · 8.1% of its workEducation: 3 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGender Studies: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 14 fractional works · 10.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 7 fractional works · 5.5% of its workFinance: 6 fractional works · 4.2% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 13 fractional works · 9.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 9 fractional works · 7.0% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Decision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 25 fractional works · 19.0% of its workEngineering: 14 fractional works · 10.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 6 fractional works · 4.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 8 fractional works · 6.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 7 fractional works · 5.6% of its workMedicine: 4 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workResearch and Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 6 fractional works · 4.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKVlerick BusinessSchool133fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences19%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences71%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Business, Management and Accounting4130.5%
    2. Social Sciences2216.7%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1410.2%
    4. Decision Sciences139.4%
    5. Psychology42.9%
    6. Arts and Humanities11.0%
    1. Engineering1410.6%
    2. Computer Science86.1%
    3. Environmental Science21.4%
    4. Mathematics10.7%
    5. Energy00.1%
    6. Physics and Astronomy00.0%
    1. Medicine43.0%
    2. Health Professions21.8%
    3. Nursing10.7%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences43.3%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology10.6%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.4%
    4. Neuroscience00.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Vlerick Business School specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Business, Management and Accounting takes 9.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Business, Management and AccountingField · 40.7 works9.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.69× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.62× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.78× its world share, 8 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.71× its world share, 14 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.63× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.69× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.16× its world share, 4 worksMedicineNursing: 1.46× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.34× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 9.47× its world share, 41 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 9.73× its world share, 12 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4.78× its world share, 14 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.95× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.32× its world share, 22 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 9.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 20 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences9.73×12 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting9.47×41 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance4.78×14 works
  4. Nursing1.46×1 works
  5. Social Sciences1.32×22 works
  6. Psychology0.95×4 works
  7. Computer Science0.78×8 works
  8. Engineering0.71×14 works
  9. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.69×4 works
  10. Health Professions0.69×2 works
  11. Mathematics0.63×1 works
  12. Immunology and Microbiology0.62×1 works
  13. Arts and Humanities0.34×1 works
  14. Environmental Science0.29×2 works
  15. Neuroscience0.20×0 works
  16. Medicine0.16×4 works
  17. Energy0.09×0 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.08×1 works
  19. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.04×0 works
  20. Physics and Astronomy0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Vlerick Business School?

Ranked on the quality score, Veroniek Collewaert, Joren Gijsbrechts and Sophie Manigart lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Vlerick Business School.

  1. 1 Veroniek Collewaert Belgium · #298,122 worldwide 1.9k citations · 74 works
  2. 2 Joren Gijsbrechts Belgium · #357,435 worldwide 973 citations · 29 works
  3. 3 Sophie Manigart Belgium · #362,893 worldwide 6.7k citations · 286 works
  4. 4 Niels Schillewaert Belgium · #382,256 worldwide 5.1k citations · 76 works
  5. 5 Miguel L.C.J. Meuleman Belgium · #417,026 worldwide 2.4k citations · 91 works
  6. 6 Katleen E. M. De Stobbeleir Belgium · #606,486 worldwide 1.5k citations · 57 works
  7. 7 Marc Buelens Belgium · #723,531 worldwide 3.5k citations · 113 works
  8. 8 Öykü Işık Belgium · #1,184,935 worldwide 841 citations · 21 works
  9. 9 Ann Vereecke Belgium · #1,377,474 worldwide 3.2k citations · 133 works
  10. 10 Marion Debruyne Belgium · #1,385,400 worldwide 917 citations · 43 works
All ranked researchers at Vlerick Business School

What are the most cited papers from Vlerick Business School?

The most cited paper from Vlerick Business School is "Investments in Consumer Relationships: A Cross-Country and Cross-Industry Exploration" (Kristof De Wulf, Gaby Odekerken‐Schröder, Dawn Iacobucci, 2001), with 2,078 citations. Next come "Organizational innovation adoption: a multi-level framework of determinants and opportunities for future research" (1,274) and "Operating room planning and scheduling: A literature review" (1,198).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Investments in Consumer Relationships: A Cross-Country and Cross-Industry Exploration Kristof De Wulf, Gaby Odekerken‐Schröder, Dawn Iacobucci · Journal of Marketing Oct 2001 2,078
2 Organizational innovation adoption: a multi-level framework of determinants and opportunities for future research R.T. Frambach, Niels Schillewaert · Journal of Business Research Feb 2002 1,274
3 Operating room planning and scheduling: A literature review Brecht Cardoen, Erik L. Demeulemeester, Jeroen Beliën · European Journal of Operational Research Open access 25 Apr 2009 1,198
4 Human capital, social capital, and innovation: a multi-country study Mourad Dakhli, Dirk De Clercq · Entrepreneurship and Regional Development Open access Mar 2004 828
5 35 years of studies on business failure: an overview of the classic statistical methodologies and their related problems Sofie Balcaen, Hubert Ooghe · The British Accounting Review 26 Oct 2005 798
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Vlerick Business School?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Corporate Governance, Supply Chain Management, Firm Performance, Genetic Algorithm, Risk Management, Innovation, Leadership 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 2022-now 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 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Corporate Governance13▲ 13×12 topics
  2. Supply Chain Management8▲ 6.7×12 topics
  3. Firm Performance7▲ 30×4 topics
  4. Innovation7▲ 5.2×14 topics
  5. Sustainability7▲ 2.1×17 topics
  6. Genetic Algorithm6▲ 35×5 topics
  7. Risk Management6▲ 9.9×9 topics
  8. Leadership6▲ 9.1×6 topics
  9. Social Capital6▲ 8.3×10 topics
  10. Entrepreneurship6▲ 11×7 topics
  11. Financial Constraints5▲ 39×2 topics
  12. Big Data5▲ 4.0×8 topics
  13. Investor Protection5▲ 50×1 topic
  14. Optimization5▲ 8.6×5 topics
  15. Ownership Structure5▲ 50×1 topic
  16. Job Satisfaction4▲ 7.3×5 topics
  17. Metaheuristics4▲ 39×4 topics
  18. Consumer Behavior4▲ 4.2×7 topics
  19. Internet of Things4▲ 3.0×3 topics
  20. Project Scheduling4▲ 566×1 topic
  21. Resource-Constrained4▲ 566×1 topic
  22. Start-Up Firms4▲ 112×1 topic
  23. Venture Capital4▲ 107×1 topic
  24. Organizational Change3▲ 32×4 topics
  25. Scheduling3▲ 35×3 topics
  26. Game Theory3▲ 13×2 topics
  27. Organizational Performance3▲ 8.6×5 topics
  28. Business Models3▲ 27×3 topics
  29. Dynamic Scheduling3▲ 52×2 topics
  30. Human Resource Management3▲ 13×2 topics
  31. Flexible Job-shop2▲ 65×1 topic
  32. Manufacturing2▲ 40×1 topic
  33. Mediation Analysis2▲ 22×2 topics
  34. Institutional Theory2▲ 17×3 topics
  35. Market Dynamics2▲ 22×2 topics
  36. Organizational Behavior2▲ 11×1 topic
  37. Work Engagement2▲ 18×1 topic
  38. Customer Experience2▲ 10×4 topics
  39. Stereotypes2▲ 18×2 topics
  40. Construction Projects2▲ 36×1 topic

Which research topics does Vlerick Business School publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Corporate Finance and Governance, Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling, Private Equity and Venture Capital and Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms.

Corporate Finance and Governance: 5 fractional worksResource-Constrained Project Scheduling: 4 fractional worksPrivate Equity and Ventu…4Private Equity and Venture Capital: 4 fractional worksScheduling and Optimizat…2Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms: 2 fractional worksJob Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior: 2 fractional worksConstruction Project Management and Performance: 2 fractional worksDigital Economy and Work…2Digital Economy and Work Transformation: 2 fractional worksGender Diversity and Ine…2Gender Diversity and Inequality: 2 fractional worksEntrepreneurship Studies…2Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences: 2 fractional worksSmart Grid Energy Manage…2Smart Grid Energy Management: 2 fractional works
AccountingManagement Science and Operations ResearchIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management4 others

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

  1. 1 Corporate Finance and Governance Accounting 5 works
  2. 2 Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Management Science and Operations Research 4 works
  3. 3 Private Equity and Venture Capital Accounting 4 works
  4. 4 Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 2 works
  5. 5 Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 2 works
  6. 6 Construction Project Management and Performance Management Science and Operations Research 2 works
  7. 7 Digital Economy and Work Transformation Sociology and Political Science 2 works
  8. 8 Gender Diversity and Inequality Gender Studies 2 works
  9. 9 Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences Management of Technology and Innovation 2 works
  10. 10 Smart Grid Energy Management Electrical and Electronic Engineering 2 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 available38.1%not open61.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors44.7%domestic only55.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Vlerick Business School's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Vlerick Business School as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00034% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Vlerick Business School0.00073% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Vlerick Business School over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting20%40%Vlerick Business School21.7% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 31.7% in 2013.

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