Editorial: The Third Interfaces Ranking of Universities' Contributions to the Practice Literature

Michael H. Rothkopf
Additional contact information
Michael H. Rothkopf: Faculty of Management and RUTCOR, Rutgers University, 640 Bartholomew Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8003

Interfaces, 1999, vol. 29, issue 6, 107-111

Abstract: Research universities expend a lot of effort trying to measure contributions to the research literature. In an applied field like OR/MS, contributions to the practice literature are also important, but five years ago, there was no scheme for measuring such contributions. On the theory that we tend to get what we measure and reward, I started a simple scheme to measure universities' contributions to the INFORMS practice literature. I described the scheme, the rationale for it, and the results of applying it to the 1988-to-1994 literature to rank universities in an Interfaces editorial [Rothkopf, Michael H. 1996, “Editorial: Which universities contribute to the practice literature? The first Interfaces ranking,” Interfaces , Vol. 26, No. 2 (March–April), pp. 16–21]. I promised to update the rankings periodically, and a subsequent editorial carried an updated set of rankings based upon the 1990-to-1996 literature [Rothkopf, Michael H. 1997, “Editorial: Which universities contribute to the practice literature? The second Interfaces ranking,” Interfaces , Vol. 27, No. 4 (July–August), pp. 19–22]. This editorial contains the latest rankings based upon the 1992-to-1998 literature. The new rankings have a new top university, the University of Texas at Austin, and they confirm some trends that the comparison of the first and second rankings suggested.

Keywords: professional; comments on (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (8)

Downloads: (external link)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/inte.29.6.107 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:inm:orinte:v:29:y:1999:i:6:p:107-111

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Interfaces from INFORMS Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Asher ().