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

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  • Michael H. Rothkopf

    (Faculty of Management and RUTCOR, Rutgers University, 640 Bartholomew Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8003)

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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.

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  • Michael H. Rothkopf, 1999. "Editorial: The Third Interfaces Ranking of Universities' Contributions to the Practice Literature," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 29(6), pages 107-111, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:29:y:1999:i:6:p:107-111
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.29.6.107
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    1. Michael H. Rothkopf, 2005. "Editorial: The Sixth Interfaces Ranking of Universities’ Contributions to the Practice Literature," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 35(5), pages 425-428, October.
    2. Michael F. Gorman, 2016. "Editorial: The 11th Rothkopf Rankings: 28 Years of Tracking Applied Research in Academia," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 46(3), pages 264-276, June.
    3. Ronald D. Fricker, 2011. "Editorial: The Ninth Rothkopf Rankings of Universities' Contributions to the INFORMS Practice Literature," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 41(6), pages 590-598, December.
    4. Ronald D. Fricker, 2009. "Editorial: The Eighth Rothkopf Rankings of Universities' Contributions to the INFORMS Practice Literature," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 39(6), pages 533-539, December.
    5. Michael F. Gorman, 2019. "Editorial: The 12th Rothkopf Rankings," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 49(4), pages 295-303, July.
    6. Laure Cabantous & Gilbert Laporte, 2015. "ASP, The Art and Science of Practice: Academia-Industry Interfacing in Operations Research in Montréal," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 45(6), pages 554-566, December.
    7. Michael H. Rothkopf, 2007. "Editorial: The Seventh Interfaces Ranking of Universities' Contributions to the Practice Literature," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 37(6), pages 566-569, December.
    8. Ronald D. Fricker, 2012. "Editorial: The First Rothkopf Rankings of Nonacademic Organizations," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 42(6), pages 585-590, December.

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