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Operations Management Techniques

Operations Management Techniques is a research topic within Management Science and Operations Research. Science Explorer counts 9.7k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers revolves around the Theory of Constraints (TOC) and its application in operations management, supply chain collaboration, product mix optimization, constraint management, and performance measurement. The papers also explore the integration of TOC with other methodologies such as Six Sigma and Lean, as well as its impact on decision-making and organizational performance.

  • Theory of Constraints
  • Operations Management
  • Supply Chain
  • Product Mix
  • Constraint Management
  • Performance Measures
  • TOC Thinking Processes
  • Bottleneck Operation
  • Throughput Accounting
  • Change Management
Research works
9.7k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
978
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Operations Management Techniques

Which countries lead Operations Management Techniques research?

By volume, Indonesia and Brazil publish the most (384 and 155 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 384 works
  2. 2 Brazil 155 works
  3. 3 United States 130 works
  4. 4 India 85 works
  5. 5 Peru 58 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 57 works
  7. 7 Russia 54 works
  8. 8 China 52 works
  9. 9 Poland 36 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 35 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Indonesia: 36.7%Brazil: 14.8%United States: 12.4%India: 8.1%6 others listed: 28.0%37%largest
Indonesia384 · 36.7%Brazil155 · 14.8%United States130 · 12.4%India85 · 8.1%6 others listed293 · 28.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Operations Management Techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidad de Lima publishes the most Operations Management Techniques research, followed by University of Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa Timur and Peruvian University of Applied Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad de LimaPeru 25 works
  2. 2 University of Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa TimurIndonesia 20 works
  3. 3 Peruvian University of Applied SciencesPeru 16 works
  4. 4 Universitas 17 Agustus 1945 SurabayaIndonesia 12 works
  5. 5 Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 11 works
  6. 6 Tarumanagara UniversityIndonesia 11 works
  7. 7 Universidade do Vale do Rio dos SinosBrazil 10 works
  8. 8 University of Singaperbangsa KarawangIndonesia 9 works
  9. 9 Bandung Islamic UniversityIndonesia 9 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Operations Management Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Operations Management Techniques include Thomas L. Saaty.

  1. 1 Thomas L. Saaty United States 122k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Operations Management Techniques?

The most cited paper in Operations Management Techniques is "Issues in Supply Chain Management" (Douglas M. Lambert, Martha C. Cooper, 2000), with 3,082 citations. Next come "Collaborating: Finding Common Ground for Multiparty Problems" (2,703) and "Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning and Operations" (2,596).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Issues in Supply Chain Management Douglas M. Lambert, Martha C. Cooper · Industrial Marketing Management 2000 3,082
2 Collaborating: Finding Common Ground for Multiparty Problems Robert Kramer, Barbara Gray · Academy of Management Review Jul 1990 2,703
3 Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning and Operations Sunil Chopra, Peter Meindl Oct 2000 2,596
4 Supply Chain Management: Implementation Issues and Research Opportunities Douglas M. Lambert, Martha C. Cooper, Janus Dóre Pagh · The International Journal of Logistics Management Jul 1998 2,426
5 Forecasting Sales by Exponentially Weighted Moving Averages Peter R. Winters · Management Science Apr 1960 2,135
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Operations Management Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Operations Management Techniques research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Surabaya (Indonesia), Bandung (Indonesia) and Lima (Peru). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lima.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 59 works
  2. 2 SurabayaIndonesia 52 works
  3. 3 BandungIndonesia 47 works
  4. 4 LimaPeru 46 works
  5. 5 São PauloBrazil 25 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 17 works
  7. 7 MedanIndonesia 17 works
  8. 8 MakassarIndonesia 15 works
  9. 9 DepokIndonesia 12 works
  10. 10 IstanbulTürkiye 12 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LimaPE · 45.9 works21×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Operations Management Techniques than the world average.

See Operations Management Techniques on the map

Where is the best place to study Operations Management Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad de Lima, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos and Universitas Teknologi Yogyakarta score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%5%10%15%mean 6.98%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universitas Teknolog…Universidad de LimaUniversidade do Vale…Peruvian University …
above the meannear itbelow it

One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Universidad de LimaPeru 91.411.3%261.2×25 -
2Universidade do Vale do Rio dos SinosBrazil 72.59.6%59.6×10 +41.8%
3Universitas Teknologi YogyakartaIndonesia 61.712.2%31.2×8 +595.2%
4Peruvian University of Applied SciencesPeru 58.16.1%127.1×16 -20.3%
5Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 57.211.7%13.2×9 +2.5%
6Weatherford CollegeUnited States 52.09.4%4.5×9 +249.0%
7University of Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa TimurIndonesia 44.41.0%20.8×20 +433.9%
8Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 38.21.3%11.8×11 +304.7%
9Universitas 17 Agustus 1945 SurabayaIndonesia 35.82.9%28.9×12 +458.3%
10University of Singaperbangsa KarawangIndonesia 35.24.3%16.2×9 +390.9%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Operations Management Techniques, country by country

Is Operations Management Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Operations Management Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0075% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Operations Management Techniques0.0072% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Operations Management Techniques 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.

still counting5%10%15%Operations Management Techniques10.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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