In its October 21, 2002 issue, a Business Week article, "Behind the Rankings," explains that the magazine calculated each school's intellectual capital rating, a metric used in the special MBA issue, by tallying academic journal entries from 18 publications. A note from the publisher placed the actual number at 19.
Three INFORMS journals appear on the list: Information Systems Research, a newcomer, and the returning Operations Research and Management Science, which appeared on the 2000 list
"It’s no accident that the field of operations research takes the lead among business schools," says Mark Doherty, Executive Director of INFORMS. "Operations researchers bring a unique blend of analytical tools to solving business problems. Our editors are very rigorous insuring that academic papers are carefully refereed before appearing in our scholarly journals. The appearance of three INFORMS journals on the Business Week list shows that operations research is clearly influencing the academic and business world."
INFORMS publishes 10 scholarly journals: Operations Research, Management Science, Information Systems Research, INTERFACES: An International Journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, the INFORMS Journal on Computing, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Marketing Science, Mathematics of Operations Research, Organization Science, and Transportation Science. INFORMS will introduce a new journal, Decision Analysis, in 2004.
Two other publisher represented on the Business Week list contributed two journals to the 19 journals represented. The remaining publishers contributed one journal each.
A list of the journals follows.
Publisher
Journal
Academy of Management
Academy of Management Journal
Academy of Management
Academy of Management Review
American Accounting Association
Accounting Review
American Economic Association
American Economic Review
American Finance Association
Journal of Finance
American Marketing Association
Journal of Marketing
American Marketing Association
Journal of Marketing Research
Council of Logistics Management (CLM)
Journal of Business Logistics
Elsevier Science
Journal of Financial Economics
Haas School of Business
California Management Review
Harvard Business School
Harvard Business Review
INFORMS
Information Systems Research
INFORMS
Management Science
INFORMS
Operations Research
John Wiley
Strategic Management Journal
Kluwer
Journal of Business Ethics
MIT Sloan School of Management
Sloan Management Review
Personnel Psychology, Inc.
Personnel Psychology
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Journal of Accounting Research
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) is an international scientific society with over 10,000 members dedicated to applying scientific methods to help improve decision-making, management, and operations. Members of INFORMS work in business, government, and academia. They are represented in fields as diverse as airlines, health care, law enforcement, the military, the stock market, and telecommunications. 2002 is the 50th anniversary of organized operations research in the United States. 1952 was the year that the journal Operations Research and the Operations Research Society of America, one of the founding societies of INFORMS, were born. The INFORMS website is at http://www.informs.org.