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Researcher · North Carolina State University · United States

Robert Handfield

Robert Handfield publishes mostly in Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management and Management Science and Operations Research, on topics such as Quality and Supply Management, Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management and Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

ORCID 0000-0003-3895-1955 OpenAlex
World rank
#9,182
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,156
of 1,627,098
Works
273
Citations
28k
Citations per work
103.8
h-index
71
i10-index 139Top 0.2% in Management Information Systems
Robert Handfield

What does Robert Handfield research?

Robert Handfield's work is mostly in Business, Management and Accounting (60%), Decision Sciences (5%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (4%).

Social Sciences: 189 works · 69.1% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 163 works · 59.7% of their workManagement Information Systems: 83 works · 30.4% of their workStrategy and Management: 71 works · 26.1% of their workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 9 works · 3.2% of their workDecision Sciences: 15 works · 5.4% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 15 works · 5.4% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 11 works · 4.0% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 11 works · 4.0% of their workEverything else: 75 works · 27.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 10 works · 3.6% of their workEngineering: 10 works · 3.6% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 10 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert Handfield273works
Physical Sciences4%Social Sciences69%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Business, Management and Accounting16359.7%
    2. Decision Sciences155.4%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance114.0%
  2. Everything else7527.3%
    1. Engineering103.6%
  1. 1Management Information Systems30% of their works
  2. 2Strategy and Management26% of their works
  3. 3Management Science and Operations Research5% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics4% of their works
  5. 5Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Management of Technology and Innovation3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert Handfield's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Supply Chain Management, Information Sharing, Lean Manufacturing, Performance Measurement, Strategic Alliances, Risk Management, Offshoring and Outsourcing.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Supply Chain Management1683 topics
  2. Information Sharing1092 topics
  3. Lean Manufacturing931 topic
  4. Performance Measurement931 topic
  5. Strategic Alliances882 topics
  6. Risk Management542 topics
  7. Offshoring531 topic
  8. Outsourcing531 topic
  9. Organizational Resilience522 topics
  10. Circular Economy411 topic
  11. Sustainable Supply Chain Management411 topic
  12. Disruption Mitigation381 topic
  13. Supply Chain Resilience381 topic
  14. Dynamic Capabilities351 topic
  15. Knowledge Transfer351 topic
  16. Analytics221 topic
  17. Big Data221 topic
  18. Inventory Management161 topic
  19. Supply Chain Coordination161 topic
  20. Competitive Intelligence141 topic
  21. Information Management141 topic

Where does Robert Handfield work?

Robert Handfield's main affiliation in the publication record is North Carolina State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert Handfield have?

OpenAlex counts 273 works and 28,328 citations for Robert Handfield, an h-index of 71, ranking #9,182 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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