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

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For Operations Research, these are 728 institutions and 859 authors.

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Top Institutions

Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	1.56	1	0.31
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	1.58	6	0.80
3	University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	5.08	2	0.46
4	Yale University → Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	5.17	3	0.25
5	Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	5.52	3	0.28
6	Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark	6.06	4	1.00
7	Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	7.21	4	0.82
8	Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark	8	14	2.16
9	Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France	8.17	9	2.94
10	University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	9.46	7	1.79
11	University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	10.14	3	0.37
12	Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	11.42	5	0.44
13	Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium	12.02	10	2.35
14	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics, Amsterdam, Netherlands	13.00	8	1.79
15	Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)	13.21	6	1.77
16	Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)	13.94	1	0.24
17	Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, Texas (United States)	15.52	4	0.72
18	University of California-Riverside → Department of Economics, Riverside, California (United States)	16.04	3	1.66
19	Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain	16.86	3	1.53
20	Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom	19.35	5	0.77
21	Michigan State University → Economics Department, East Lansing, Michigan (United States)	19.46	1	0.11
22	Queen's University → Economics Department, Kingston, Canada	20.30	2	0.90
23	Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia	22.58	10	2.97
24	University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	23.67	2	0.48
25	University of Strathclyde → Economics Department, Glasgow, United Kingdom	24.44	2	0.43
-	Singapore Management University → School of Economics, Singapore, Singapore	25.14	2	0.39
25	Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore	25.14	2	0.39
27	University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	25.67	4	0.94
28	University of York → Department of Economics and Related Studies, York, United Kingdom	26.56	6	2.24
29	Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management, Tilburg, Netherlands	26.92	5	1.17
30	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy	27.99	6	1.84
31	University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom	28.32	2	0.21
-	Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Melbourne, Australia	28.64	9	2.72
32	Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)	28.78	3	0.31
-	Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi → Center for Research in Econometric Analysis of Time Series (CREATES), Aarhus, Denmark	28.92	10	0.72
33	University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	30.47	4	1.42
-	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics → Afdeling Econometrie and Operations Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands	30.52	3	1.22
-	University of Auckland → Business School → Department of Economics, Auckland, New Zealand	30.85	1	0.06
33	University of Auckland → Business School, Auckland, New Zealand	30.85	1	0.06
-	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	31.09	5	0.73
-	Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands	31.64	4	1.11
35	Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland	34.16	6	0.86
36	Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain	34.32	5	0.57
37	University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	35.70	2	0.29
38	Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	36.35	1	0.25
-	Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland	36.68	5	0.79
39	University of Macau → Faculty of Business Administration, Macau, Macao	36.99	4	1.10
40	Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	37.68	3	1.25
-	Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis → Research Division, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)	39.06	2	0.30
40	Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)	39.06	2	0.30
42	Università Ca' Foscari Venezia → Dipartimento di Economia, Venezia, Italy	39.83	6	1.14
43	Syracuse University → Maxwell School → Department of Economics, Syracuse, New York (United States)	41.82	4	1.57
44	Queen Mary University of London → School of Economics and Finance, London, United Kingdom	41.88	5	1.16
-	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	42.13	1	0.61
45	Emory University → Department of Economics, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	43.55	2	0.32
46	University of Pretoria → Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, Pretoria, South Africa	44.12	1	0.10
47	University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	44.47	2	0.49
48	Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio (United States)	45.13	3	1.50
-	University of Pretoria → Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences → Department of Economics, Pretoria, South Africa	45.58	1	0.10
-	Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland → Economic Research, Cleveland, Ohio (United States)	46.29	2	0.66
49	University of Nebraska-Omaha → Department of Economics, Omaha, Nebraska (United States)	47.56	1	0.25
50	Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	48.11	5	1.18
51	Aix-Marseille Université → École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France	48.78	4	1.48
-	University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School → Department of Economics, Glasgow, United Kingdom	49.18	2	0.48
51	University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School, Glasgow, United Kingdom	49.18	2	0.48
53	Brunel University London → Department of Economics and Finance, Uxbridge, United Kingdom	51.87	3	0.72
-	University of Miami → Miami Herbert Business School → Department of Economics, Coral Gables, Florida (United States)	52.73	1	0.43
53	University of Miami → Miami Herbert Business School, Coral Gables, Florida (United States)	52.73	1	0.43
55	Birkbeck College → Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, London, United Kingdom	53.95	2	0.45
56	Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	54.65	4	0.78
-	Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom	54.89	1	0.10
57	University of Sussex → Sussex Business School, Brighton, United Kingdom	55.27	1	0.12
-	University of Sussex → Sussex Business School → Department of Economics, Brighton, United Kingdom	56.47	1	0.12
58	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	57.27	12	0.10
59	Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)	57.46	2	0.90
-	Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business → Department of Economics, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)	57.46	2	0.90
60	Università degli Studi di Firenze → Scuola di Economia e Management, Firenze, Italy	57.70	1	0.53
-	Università degli Studi di Firenze → Scuola di Economia e Management → Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni "G. Parenti", Firenze, Italy	58.77	1	0.53
61	University of Essex → Essex Business School, Colchester, United Kingdom	59.15	1	0.22
62	University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)	60.07	1	0.11
63	University of North Carolina-Chapel-Hill → Department of Economics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (United States)	60.09	2	0.48
-	University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business → Finance Group, Berkeley, California (United States)	61.14	1	0.11
64	University of Notre Dame → Department of Economics, South Bend, Indiana (United States)	62.21	4	0.51
-	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy	64.05	2	0.11
65	Tsinghua University → School of Economics and Management, Beijing, China	64.72	2	1.18
66	Seoul National University → Division of Economics, Seoul, South Korea	65.52	2	0.48
67	Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" → Facoltà di Economia, Roma, Italy	66.91	5	2.18
68	DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), Berlin, Germany	67.54	2	0.13
69	Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	67.80	3	0.68
70	Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	68.31	2	0.52
71	Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Bruxelles, Belgium	68.74	2	0.17
-	Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta → Economic Research Department, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	68.85	3	0.68
-	Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas → Economic Research Department, Dallas, Texas (United States)	69.20	2	0.35
72	Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	69.61	2	0.23

Top Authors

Rank	Author	Score
1	Pierre Perron Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	2.95
2	Peter C. B. Phillips	3.39
3	Mohammad Hashem Pesaran University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	4.76
4	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)	5.33
5	Soren Johansen Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark	5.58
6	Guido Imbens Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	8.50
7	Jeffrey Wooldridge Michigan State University → Economics Department, East Lansing, Michigan (United States)	9.30
8	Halbert White †	10.46
9	Kenneth L. Judd Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)	11.61
10	Enrique Sentana Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain	12.86
11	James MacKinnon Queen's University → Economics Department, Kingston, Canada	12.87
12	Oliver Bruce Linton University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom	13.74
13	Jushan Bai Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	13.77
14	Todd Clark Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland → Economic Research, Cleveland, Ohio (United States) Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)	14.43
15	Aman Ullah University of California-Riverside → Department of Economics, Riverside, California (United States)	15.47
16	Gary Koop University of Strathclyde → Economics Department, Glasgow, United Kingdom	15.49
17	Whitney Newey Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	16.20
18	Rangan Gupta University of Pretoria → Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences → Department of Economics, Pretoria, South Africa	18.07
19	Mike Tsionas †	18.25
20	Lutz Kilian Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, Texas (United States)	19.39
21	Andrew Patton Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	21.13
22	Richard S.j. Tol University of Sussex → Sussex Business School → Department of Economics, Brighton, United Kingdom	22.28
23	Yongcheol Shin University of York → Department of Economics and Related Studies, York, United Kingdom	22.58
24	Helmut Lütkepohl (Helmut Luetkepohl) DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), Berlin, Germany	23.13
25	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	24.76
26	Michael Woodford Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	25.31
27	Frank Schorfheide University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	25.81
28	Michael McAleer †	26.24
29	Dacheng Xiu University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	26.93
30	Morten Ørregaard Nielsen (Morten Oerregaard Nielsen) Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark	29.55
31	Mark Wohar University of Nebraska-Omaha → Department of Economics, Omaha, Nebraska (United States)	29.86
32	Jean-Michel Zakoian Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France	31.07
33	Jack P.c. Kleijnen Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands	31.80
34	Dimitris Korobilis University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School → Department of Economics, Glasgow, United Kingdom	33.72
35	Mikkel Plagborg-Moller University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	34.51
36	Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	35.94
37	Christopher Parmeter University of Miami → Miami Herbert Business School → Department of Economics, Coral Gables, Florida (United States)	36.20
38	Wing-Keung Wong Asia University → College of Management → Department of Finance, Wufeng, Taiwan	36.26
39	Christopher Baum Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)	36.39
40	Mark Armstrong University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	37.67
41	Robert Taylor University of Essex → Essex Business School, Colchester, United Kingdom	37.89
42	James J. Heckman University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	40.12
43	Arthur Lewbel Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)	40.22
44	Siem Jan Koopman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics → Afdeling Econometrie and Operations Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands	40.89
45	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	41.40
46	John Vickers Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom	41.56
47	Christian S. Gourieroux University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	42.70
48	Stefan Nagel University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	42.99
49	Alain Monfort Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France	43.11
50	Jinyong Hahn University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	43.72
51	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)	44.16
52	David F. Hendry Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom	44.87
53	Gabriele Fiorentini Università degli Studi di Firenze → Scuola di Economia e Management → Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni "G. Parenti", Firenze, Italy	46.00
54	Joshua C.c. Chan Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business → Department of Economics, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)	46.95
55	Herman K. van Dijk †	47.82
56	Torben G. Andersen National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	48.84
57	Christian Francq Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France	49.09
58	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	51.43
59	Zhijie Xiao Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)	53.01
60	Stephen Morris Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	53.40
61	Pentti Saikkonen	53.42
62	Ahmet Sensoy Bilkent Üniversitesi → İşletme Fakültesi, Ankara, Turkey	53.74
63	Peter Hansen University of North Carolina-Chapel-Hill → Department of Economics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (United States)	55.62
64	Badi H. Baltagi Syracuse University → Maxwell School → Department of Economics, Syracuse, New York (United States)	57.21
65	Patrick Kline University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	57.38
66	Michael McCracken Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis → Research Division, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)	58.26
67	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	58.37
68	Wolfgang Karl Härdle (Wolfgang Karl Haerdle) Humboldt-Universität Berlin → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Berlin, Germany Humboldt-Universität Berlin → Center for Applied Statistics and Econometrics (CASE), Berlin, Germany	59.03
69	Ricardo J Caballero Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	59.69
70	Jiti Gao Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Melbourne, Australia	59.83
71	Tae Hwy Lee University of California-Riverside → Department of Economics, Riverside, California (United States)	60.00
72	Jun Yu University of Macau → Faculty of Business Administration, Macau, Macao	61.16
73	Monica Billio Università Ca' Foscari Venezia → Dipartimento di Economia, Venezia, Italy	63.33
74	Neil Shephard Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	63.53
75	Rafał Weron (Rafal Weron) Politechnika Wrocławska → Katedra Badań Operacyjnych i Inteligencji Biznesowej, Wrocław, Poland	65.09
76	Christian K. Wolf Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	65.39
77	Vasilis Sarafidis Brunel University London → Department of Economics and Finance, Uxbridge, United Kingdom	65.65
78	Liangjun Su Tsinghua University → School of Economics and Management, Beijing, China	67.19
79	Susan Athey Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	67.99
80	Carl Chiarella †	68.15
81	Michael Wolf Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland	68.30
82	Timo Teräsvirta (Timo Terasvirta) Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi → Center for Research in Econometric Analysis of Time Series (CREATES), Aarhus, Denmark	68.36
83	Jan R. Magnus Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics → Afdeling Econometrie and Operations Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands	69.47
84	Subal C. Kumbhakar State University of New York-Binghamton (SUNY) → Department of Economics, Binghamton, New York (United States)	69.56
85	Afees Adebare Salisu Centre for Econometrics and Applied Research, Ibadan, Nigeria	70.66

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