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

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For Operations Research, these are 729 institutions and 863 authors.

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Top Institutions

Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	1.27	6	0.78
2	Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	1.83	1	0.31
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)	5.05	3	0.28
5	Yale University → Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	5.27	3	0.24
6	Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark	5.70	4	1.00
7	Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	6.88	4	0.82
8	Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark	7.94	14	2.16
9	Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France	8.19	9	2.94
10	University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	8.84	7	1.78
11	University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	10.68	3	0.36
12	Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	11.57	5	0.44
13	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics, Amsterdam, Netherlands	13.06	8	1.78
14	Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)	13.40	6	1.77
15	Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)	13.85	1	0.24
16	Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium	14.33	10	2.23
17	Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, Texas (United States)	16.54	4	0.66
18	Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain	17.25	3	1.52
19	University of California-Riverside → Department of Economics, Riverside, California (United States)	17.67	3	1.66
20	Michigan State University → Economics Department, East Lansing, Michigan (United States)	17.99	1	0.11
21	Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom	18.36	6	0.86
22	Queen's University → Economics Department, Kingston, Canada	19.95	2	0.90
23	University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	23.58	2	0.47
24	University of Strathclyde → Economics Department, Glasgow, United Kingdom	24.25	2	0.43
-	Singapore Management University → School of Economics, Singapore, Singapore	25.37	2	0.39
24	Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore	25.37	2	0.39
26	University of York → Department of Economics and Related Studies, York, United Kingdom	26.04	6	2.24
27	Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia	26.30	10	2.96
28	University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	26.45	4	0.90
-	Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi → Center for Research in Econometric Analysis of Time Series (CREATES), Aarhus, Denmark	28.79	10	0.72
29	University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom	28.88	2	0.21
30	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy	28.91	6	1.83
31	Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)	29.37	3	0.30
32	University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	29.80	4	1.42
-	University of Auckland → Business School → Department of Economics, Auckland, New Zealand	31.89	1	0.06
32	University of Auckland → Business School, Auckland, New Zealand	31.89	1	0.06
-	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics → Afdeling Econometrie and Operations Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands	31.94	3	1.22
-	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	32.14	5	0.73
-	Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Melbourne, Australia	32.31	9	2.71
34	Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland	33.44	6	0.86
35	Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management, Tilburg, Netherlands	34.28	5	1.17
36	Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain	34.66	5	0.57
37	University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	35.95	2	0.29
-	Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland	36.54	5	0.79
38	Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	37.49	1	0.23
39	Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	37.80	3	1.25
40	University of Macau → Faculty of Business Administration, Macau, Macao	38.23	4	1.10
-	Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis → Research Division, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)	38.88	2	0.30
40	Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)	38.88	2	0.30
-	Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands	40.28	4	1.11
42	Queen Mary University of London → School of Economics and Finance, London, United Kingdom	41.69	5	1.16
43	Syracuse University → Maxwell School → Department of Economics, Syracuse, New York (United States)	42.53	4	1.57
44	Università Ca' Foscari Venezia → Dipartimento di Economia, Venezia, Italy	43.49	6	0.99
45	Emory University → Department of Economics, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	44.01	2	0.32
46	University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	44.21	2	0.49
47	Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio (United States)	45.04	3	1.49
-	Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland → Economic Research, Cleveland, Ohio (United States)	46.20	2	0.66
-	University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School → Department of Economics, Glasgow, United Kingdom	49.07	2	0.48
47	University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School, Glasgow, United Kingdom	49.07	2	0.48
49	Aix-Marseille Université → École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France	49.57	4	1.48
-	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	50.12	1	0.49
50	University of Pretoria → Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, Pretoria, South Africa	50.84	1	0.10
51	University of Nebraska-Omaha → Department of Economics, Omaha, Nebraska (United States)	50.89	1	0.25
52	Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	50.93	4	0.83
-	University of Pretoria → Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences → Department of Economics, Pretoria, South Africa	51.93	1	0.10
53	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	54.49	1	0.10
-	University of Miami → Miami Herbert Business School → Department of Economics, Coral Gables, Florida (United States)	55.35	1	0.43
53	University of Miami → Miami Herbert Business School, Coral Gables, Florida (United States)	55.35	1	0.43
55	Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	55.53	4	0.77
56	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	55.83	12	0.10
-	Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas → Economic Research Department, Dallas, Texas (United States)	56.00	3	0.57
57	Brunel University London → Department of Economics and Finance, Uxbridge, United Kingdom	56.60	3	0.71
-	Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business → Department of Economics, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)	57.36	2	0.89
57	Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)	57.36	2	0.89
59	University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)	59.39	1	0.11
60	University of Sussex → Sussex Business School, Brighton, United Kingdom	60.26	1	0.12
61	University of Bath → Department of Economics, Bath, United Kingdom	60.36	1	0.22
-	University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business → Finance Group, Berkeley, California (United States)	60.47	1	0.11
62	Università degli Studi di Firenze → Scuola di Economia e Management, Firenze, Italy	60.50	1	0.52
-	University of Sussex → Sussex Business School → Department of Economics, Brighton, United Kingdom	61.27	1	0.12
-	Università degli Studi di Firenze → Scuola di Economia e Management → Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni "G. Parenti", Firenze, Italy	61.57	1	0.52
63	University of North Carolina-Chapel-Hill → Department of Economics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (United States)	61.65	2	0.48
64	University of Notre Dame → Department of Economics, South Bend, Indiana (United States)	61.67	4	0.51
-	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy	64.14	2	0.11
65	Tsinghua University → School of Economics and Management, Beijing, China	64.29	2	1.18
66	Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	66.15	2	0.52
67	DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), Berlin, Germany	67.91	2	0.13
68	Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	69.18	3	0.68
69	Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	69.55	2	0.23
70	Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Bruxelles, Belgium	70.15	2	0.17
-	Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta → Economic Research Department, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	70.22	3	0.68
71	Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" → Facoltà di Economia, Roma, Italy	71.48	4	1.84
72	Universität zu Köln → Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Köln, Germany	71.91	4	0.51

Top Authors

Rank	Author	Score
1	Pierre Perron Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	2.67
2	Peter C. B. Phillips	2.89
3	Mohammad Hashem Pesaran University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	4.21
4	Soren Johansen Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark	4.53
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)	4.97
6	Jeffrey Wooldridge Michigan State University → Economics Department, East Lansing, Michigan (United States)	8.00
7	Guido Imbens Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	8.35
8	Halbert White †	10.19
9	Kenneth L. Judd Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)	11.23
10	Oliver Bruce Linton University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom	12.71
11	Enrique Sentana Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain	12.88
12	Jushan Bai Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	13.74
13	James MacKinnon Queen's University → Economics Department, Kingston, Canada	14.29
14	Todd Clark Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland → Economic Research, Cleveland, Ohio (United States) Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)	14.50
15	Gary Koop University of Strathclyde → Economics Department, Glasgow, United Kingdom	14.88
16	Whitney Newey Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	16.33
17	Aman Ullah University of California-Riverside → Department of Economics, Riverside, California (United States)	16.34
18	Rangan Gupta University of Pretoria → Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences → Department of Economics, Pretoria, South Africa	19.88
19	Mike Tsionas †	20.16
20	Lutz Kilian Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, Texas (United States)	21.86
21	Andrew Patton Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	21.95
22	Helmut Lütkepohl (Helmut Luetkepohl) DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), Berlin, Germany	24.09
23	Richard S.j. Tol University of Sussex → Sussex Business School → Department of Economics, Brighton, United Kingdom	24.12
24	Yongcheol Shin University of York → Department of Economics and Related Studies, York, United Kingdom	24.18
25	Frank Schorfheide University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	25.73
26	Michael Woodford Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	26.97
27	Dacheng Xiu University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	27.59
28	Morten Ørregaard Nielsen (Morten Oerregaard Nielsen) Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark	28.87
29	Michael McAleer †	29.88
30	Mikkel Plagborg-Moller University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	32.85
31	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	33.17
32	Jean-Michel Zakoian Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France	33.75
33	Mark Wohar University of Nebraska-Omaha → Department of Economics, Omaha, Nebraska (United States)	33.84
34	Christopher Parmeter University of Miami → Miami Herbert Business School → Department of Economics, Coral Gables, Florida (United States)	37.76
35	Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	39.30
36	Dimitris Korobilis University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School → Department of Economics, Glasgow, United Kingdom	40.45
37	Siem Jan Koopman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics → Afdeling Econometrie and Operations Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands	40.59
38	James J. Heckman University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	40.84
39	Mark Armstrong University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	41.44
40	Arthur Lewbel Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)	42.16
41	Robert Taylor University of Bath → Department of Economics, Bath, United Kingdom	43.87
42	Alain Monfort Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France	44.53
43	Jinyong Hahn University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	44.60
44	David F. Hendry Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom	44.96
45	John Vickers Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom	45.66
46	Christian S. Gourieroux University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	46.59
47	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	46.79
48	Joshua C.c. Chan Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business → Department of Economics, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)	47.57
49	Stefan Nagel University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	49.46
50	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)	49.59
51	Jack P.c. Kleijnen Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands	50.08
52	Torben G. Andersen National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	50.11
53	Wing-Keung Wong Asia University → College of Management → Department of Finance, Wufeng, Taiwan	52.66
54	Christian Francq Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France	52.68
55	Stephen Morris Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	52.85
56	Herman K. van Dijk †	54.02
57	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	54.90
58	Ahmet Sensoy Bilkent Üniversitesi → İşletme Fakültesi, Ankara, Turkey	55.93
59	Gabriele Fiorentini Università degli Studi di Firenze → Scuola di Economia e Management → Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni "G. Parenti", Firenze, Italy	56.40
60	Patrick Kline University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	57.21
61	Pentti Saikkonen	58.15
62	Zhijie Xiao Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)	58.86
63	Michael McCracken Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis → Research Division, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)	58.97
64	Peter Hansen University of North Carolina-Chapel-Hill → Department of Economics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (United States)	59.21
65	Badi H. Baltagi Syracuse University → Maxwell School → Department of Economics, Syracuse, New York (United States)	59.98
66	Jun Yu University of Macau → Faculty of Business Administration, Macau, Macao	61.39
67	Christopher Baum Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)	62.33
68	Ricardo J Caballero Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	65.99
69	Tae Hwy Lee University of California-Riverside → Department of Economics, Riverside, California (United States)	66.05
70	Neil Shephard Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	67.52
71	Monica Billio Università Ca' Foscari Venezia → Dipartimento di Economia, Venezia, Italy	67.63
72	Susan Athey Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	68.74
73	Timo Teräsvirta (Timo Terasvirta) Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi → Center for Research in Econometric Analysis of Time Series (CREATES), Aarhus, Denmark	70.19
74	Michael Wolf Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland	70.37
75	Christian K. Wolf Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	71.34
76	Jiti Gao Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Melbourne, Australia	72.34
77	Liangjun Su Tsinghua University → School of Economics and Management, Beijing, China	72.38
78	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	73.97
79	Subal C. Kumbhakar State University of New York-Binghamton (SUNY) → Department of Economics, Binghamton, New York (United States)	76.07
80	Vasilis Sarafidis Brunel University London → Department of Economics and Finance, Uxbridge, United Kingdom	77.62
81	Jan R. Magnus Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics → Afdeling Econometrie and Operations Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands	78.21
82	Alexander Chudik Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas → Economic Research Department, Dallas, Texas (United States)	78.33
83	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	78.92
84	Xiaohong Chen Yale University → Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	79.04
85	Enrique G. Mendoza University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	79.05
86	Xiaoxia Shi University of Wisconsin-Madison → Economics Department, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)	80.14

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