Top Institutions and Economists in the Field of Operations Research, as of April 2026

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For Operations Research, these are 728 institutions and 860 authors.

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Top Institutions

Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	1.54	1	0.31
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	1.54	6	0.80
3	University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	4.94	2	0.46
4	Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	5.06	3	0.28
5	Yale University → Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	5.11	3	0.25
6	Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark	5.62	4	1.01
7	Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	7.39	4	0.82
8	Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France	7.57	9	2.96
9	Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark	8.03	14	2.19
10	University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	9.31	7	1.79
11	University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	10.07	3	0.37
12	Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	11.38	5	0.44
13	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics, Amsterdam, Netherlands	12.76	8	1.81
14	Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium	13.20	10	2.35
15	Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)	13.62	6	1.77
16	Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)	13.81	1	0.24
17	Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, Texas (United States)	15.54	4	0.75
18	Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain	17.46	3	1.53
19	University of California-Riverside → Department of Economics, Riverside, California (United States)	17.46	3	1.66
20	Michigan State University → Economics Department, East Lansing, Michigan (United States)	19.32	1	0.11
21	Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom	19.59	5	0.77
22	Queen's University → Economics Department, Kingston, Canada	20.64	2	0.90
23	University of Strathclyde → Economics Department, Glasgow, United Kingdom	24.24	2	0.43
24	University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	24.54	2	0.48
-	Singapore Management University → School of Economics, Singapore, Singapore	25.31	2	0.39
24	Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore	25.31	2	0.39
26	University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	25.77	4	0.96
27	University of York → Department of Economics and Related Studies, York, United Kingdom	26.54	6	2.24
28	Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia	26.86	10	2.97
29	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy	28.57	6	1.84
30	Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)	28.75	3	0.31
-	Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi → Center for Research in Econometric Analysis of Time Series (CREATES), Aarhus, Denmark	29.11	10	0.72
31	University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom	29.34	2	0.21
32	University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	30.53	4	1.42
33	University of Auckland → Business School, Auckland, New Zealand	30.90	1	0.06
-	University of Auckland → Business School → Department of Economics, Auckland, New Zealand	30.90	1	0.06
-	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics → Afdeling Econometrie and Operations Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands	31.05	3	1.23
-	Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Melbourne, Australia	31.95	9	2.72
-	Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM) → Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium	32.20	5	0.73
34	Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland	33.97	6	0.86
35	Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain	34.10	5	0.57
36	Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management, Tilburg, Netherlands	34.97	5	1.17
37	University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	35.78	2	0.29
-	Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland	37.09	5	0.79
38	Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	37.79	1	0.24
39	Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	37.82	3	1.25
40	Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)	38.99	2	0.30
-	Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis → Research Division, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)	38.99	2	0.30
41	University of Macau → Faculty of Business Administration, Macau, Macao	39.03	4	1.10
-	Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands	40.32	4	1.11
42	Queen Mary University of London → School of Economics and Finance, London, United Kingdom	42.08	5	1.16
43	Syracuse University → Maxwell School → Department of Economics, Syracuse, New York (United States)	43.21	4	1.57
44	Università Ca' Foscari Venezia → Dipartimento di Economia, Venezia, Italy	43.24	6	1.14
45	Emory University → Department of Economics, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	43.69	2	0.32
46	University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	44.19	2	0.49
47	Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio (United States)	44.89	3	1.50
-	Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM) → Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium	45.11	1	0.61
-	Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland → Economic Research, Cleveland, Ohio (United States)	46.12	2	0.66
48	Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	48.07	5	1.18
49	University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School, Glasgow, United Kingdom	48.45	2	0.49
-	University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School → Department of Economics, Glasgow, United Kingdom	48.45	2	0.49
50	Aix-Marseille Université → École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France	50.06	4	1.48
51	University of Nebraska-Omaha → Department of Economics, Omaha, Nebraska (United States)	51.69	1	0.25
52	University of Pretoria → Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, Pretoria, South Africa	52.43	1	0.10
-	University of Pretoria → Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences → Department of Economics, Pretoria, South Africa	53.52	1	0.10
53	Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	54.31	4	0.78
54	Birkbeck College → Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, London, United Kingdom	54.37	2	0.45
-	Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom	54.89	1	0.10
-	University of Miami → Miami Herbert Business School → Department of Economics, Coral Gables, Florida (United States)	56.03	1	0.43
54	University of Miami → Miami Herbert Business School, Coral Gables, Florida (United States)	56.03	1	0.43
56	Brunel University London → Department of Economics and Finance, Uxbridge, United Kingdom	57.03	3	0.72
57	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	57.78	11	0.10
58	Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)	57.92	2	0.90
-	Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business → Department of Economics, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)	57.92	2	0.90
59	University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)	58.65	1	0.11
60	Università degli Studi di Firenze → Scuola di Economia e Management, Firenze, Italy	59.71	1	0.53
-	University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business → Finance Group, Berkeley, California (United States)	59.72	1	0.11
61	University of North Carolina-Chapel-Hill → Department of Economics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (United States)	59.99	2	0.48
62	University of Essex → Essex Business School, Colchester, United Kingdom	60.37	1	0.22
63	University of Sussex → Sussex Business School, Brighton, United Kingdom	60.56	1	0.12
-	Università degli Studi di Firenze → Scuola di Economia e Management → Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni "G. Parenti", Firenze, Italy	60.77	1	0.53
-	University of Sussex → Sussex Business School → Department of Economics, Brighton, United Kingdom	61.57	1	0.12
64	University of Notre Dame → Department of Economics, South Bend, Indiana (United States)	61.76	4	0.51
-	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy	63.50	2	0.11
65	Tsinghua University → School of Economics and Management, Beijing, China	65.25	2	1.18
66	Seoul National University → Division of Economics, Seoul, South Korea	66.29	2	0.48
67	DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), Berlin, Germany	66.38	2	0.13
68	Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	68.30	2	0.23
69	Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	68.36	2	0.52
70	Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Bruxelles, Belgium	68.58	2	0.17
-	Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas → Economic Research Department, Dallas, Texas (United States)	69.99	2	0.35
71	Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	70.35	3	0.68
72	Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" → Facoltà di Economia, Roma, Italy	71.29	5	2.18

Top Authors

Rank	Author	Score
1	Pierre Perron Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	2.68
2	Peter C. B. Phillips	2.76
3	Mohammad Hashem Pesaran University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	4.41
4	Soren Johansen Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark	4.48
5	Donald W. K. Andrews Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States) Yale University → Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	4.54
6	Guido Imbens Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	8.89
7	Jeffrey Wooldridge Michigan State University → Economics Department, East Lansing, Michigan (United States)	9.46
8	Halbert White †	9.90
9	Kenneth L. Judd Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)	10.92
10	Enrique Sentana Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain	13.31
11	Jushan Bai Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	13.50
12	Todd Clark Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland → Economic Research, Cleveland, Ohio (United States) Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)	13.84
13	Oliver Bruce Linton University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom	14.33
14	James MacKinnon Queen's University → Economics Department, Kingston, Canada	14.43
15	Gary Koop University of Strathclyde → Economics Department, Glasgow, United Kingdom	15.04
16	Aman Ullah University of California-Riverside → Department of Economics, Riverside, California (United States)	15.91
17	Whitney Newey Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	17.03
18	Rangan Gupta University of Pretoria → Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences → Department of Economics, Pretoria, South Africa	19.45
19	Lutz Kilian Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, Texas (United States)	20.26
20	Mike Tsionas †	21.03
21	Andrew Patton Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	21.60
22	Helmut Lütkepohl (Helmut Luetkepohl) DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), Berlin, Germany	23.02
23	Richard S.j. Tol University of Sussex → Sussex Business School → Department of Economics, Brighton, United Kingdom	24.23
24	Yongcheol Shin University of York → Department of Economics and Related Studies, York, United Kingdom	25.07
25	Frank Schorfheide University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	25.62
26	Michael Woodford Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	25.78
27	Christian Matthias Hafner Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM) → Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium	28.90
28	Michael McAleer †	29.17
29	Dacheng Xiu University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	30.85
30	Morten Ørregaard Nielsen (Morten Oerregaard Nielsen) Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark	32.23
31	Jean-Michel Zakoian Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France	33.02
32	Mark Wohar University of Nebraska-Omaha → Department of Economics, Omaha, Nebraska (United States)	35.08
33	Mikkel Plagborg-Moller University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	36.38
34	Siem Jan Koopman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics → Afdeling Econometrie and Operations Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands	37.75
35	Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	38.01
36	Dimitris Korobilis University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School → Department of Economics, Glasgow, United Kingdom	38.75
37	Christopher Parmeter University of Miami → Miami Herbert Business School → Department of Economics, Coral Gables, Florida (United States)	40.31
38	Mark Armstrong University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	40.95
39	James J. Heckman University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	41.01
40	Alain Monfort Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France	42.29
41	Arthur Lewbel Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)	42.33
42	John Vickers Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom	42.81
43	Jinyong Hahn University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	42.91
44	Massimiliano Marcellino Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Economia "Ettore Bocconi", Milano, Italy Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy	44.55
45	Christian S. Gourieroux University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	46.07
46	Juan F Rubio-Ramirez Emory University → Department of Economics, Atlanta, Georgia (United States) Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis → Research Division, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)	46.42
47	Stefan Nagel University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	47.08
48	David F. Hendry Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom	47.22
49	Joshua C.c. Chan Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business → Department of Economics, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)	47.43
50	Jack P.c. Kleijnen Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands	48.19
51	Robert Taylor University of Essex → Essex Business School, Colchester, United Kingdom	50.11
52	Christian Francq Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France	50.27
53	Torben G. Andersen National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	51.41
54	Herman K. van Dijk †	52.11
55	Zhijie Xiao Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)	54.51
56	Leopold Simar Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM) → Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium	54.75
57	Stephen Morris Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	54.83
58	Pentti Saikkonen	54.84
59	Wing-Keung Wong Asia University → College of Management → Department of Finance, Wufeng, Taiwan	55.18
60	Gabriele Fiorentini Università degli Studi di Firenze → Scuola di Economia e Management → Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni "G. Parenti", Firenze, Italy	59.38
61	Ahmet Sensoy Bilkent Üniversitesi → İşletme Fakültesi, Ankara, Turkey	59.82
62	Peter Hansen University of North Carolina-Chapel-Hill → Department of Economics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (United States)	60.40
63	Michael McCracken Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis → Research Division, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)	60.72
64	Patrick Kline University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	61.29
65	Ricardo J Caballero Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	63.16
66	Badi H. Baltagi Syracuse University → Maxwell School → Department of Economics, Syracuse, New York (United States)	63.30
67	Jun Yu University of Macau → Faculty of Business Administration, Macau, Macao	64.59
68	Neil Shephard Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	65.61
69	Tae Hwy Lee University of California-Riverside → Department of Economics, Riverside, California (United States)	66.60
70	Christopher Baum Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)	67.58
71	Christian K. Wolf Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	69.76
72	Timo Teräsvirta (Timo Terasvirta) Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi → Center for Research in Econometric Analysis of Time Series (CREATES), Aarhus, Denmark	69.95
73	Monica Billio Università Ca' Foscari Venezia → Dipartimento di Economia, Venezia, Italy	71.03
74	Susan Athey Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	71.50
75	Luis Alberiko Gil-Alana Universidad de Navarra → Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Pamplona, Spain Universidad de Navarra → Navarra Center for International Development, Pamplona, Spain	71.55
76	Michael Wolf Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland	72.71
77	Jiti Gao Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Melbourne, Australia	74.19
78	Jan R. Magnus Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics → Afdeling Econometrie and Operations Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands	74.87
79	Liangjun Su Tsinghua University → School of Economics and Management, Beijing, China	75.52
80	Xiaohong Chen Yale University → Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	77.74
81	Subal C. Kumbhakar State University of New York-Binghamton (SUNY) → Department of Economics, Binghamton, New York (United States)	78.17
82	Vasilis Sarafidis Brunel University London → Department of Economics and Finance, Uxbridge, United Kingdom	78.84
83	Enrique G. Mendoza University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	79.38
84	Alexander Chudik Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas → Economic Research Department, Dallas, Texas (United States)	80.86
85	Xiaoxia Shi University of Wisconsin-Madison → Economics Department, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)	80.90
86	Martin Lettau University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business → Finance Group, Berkeley, California (United States)	81.08

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