PhD Programs by Alumni Productivity & Impact

Doctoral programs ranked by either the median productivity or the impact h-index of their tenure-track OM/SCM alumni currently in the directory. Toggle to switch the ranking. Programs with fewer than 6 alumni are excluded.

Productivity: median of UTD-24 publications / (data-pull year − PhD year) across each program's TT OM/SCM alumni. Impact: the program's faculty-level h-index — the largest k such that k of its TT OM/SCM alumni each have a personal CPY h-index of at least k. Rewards depth of high-impact alumni without being inflated by a large cohort of low-impact ones. Impact values are reported as fractional h-indices, interpolated between integer levels so close ranks remain distinguishable (see methodology). Alumni without a computable value count as 0. Latest publication sync: 2026-10-13.

Rank PhD Program Alumni Productivity Impact h-index Top Alumni
1 4 Columbia University 48 0.88 8.1
2 21 Washington University in St. Louis 15 0.75 5.6
3 24 National University of Singapore 16 0.71 5.3
  • Minglong Zhou (1.80 · Fudan University)
  • Guodong Lyu (1.43 · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
  • Zhi Chen (1.22 · Chinese University of Hong Kong)
4 47 Chinese University of Hong Kong 6 0.67 3.6
5 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 135 0.67 9.6
5 18 Duke University 29 0.67 5.7
5 38 University of Southern California 11 0.67 4.1
8 7 University of Minnesota 31 0.65 7.2
9 29 The University of Texas at Dallas 26 0.63 4.8
10 6 Carnegie Mellon University 35 0.62 7.6
10 26 New York University 15 0.62 5.2
  • Ying-Ju Chen (h=13.9 · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
  • Dorothee Honhon (h=7.4 · The University of Texas at Dallas)
  • Yuqian Xu (h=6.7 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
12 9 University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 52 0.61 7.0
  • Fan Zhou (2.00 · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
  • Sentao Miao (1.83 · University of Colorado Boulder)
  • Guihua Wang (1.71 · The University of Texas at Dallas)
13 1 Stanford University 99 0.60 10.0
14 8 University of California, Berkeley 33 0.57 7.0
  • Sheng Liu (2.29 · University of Toronto)
  • Junyu Cao (1.33 · The University of Texas at Austin)
  • Long He (1.27 · University of Notre Dame)
15 12 Northwestern University 42 0.56 6.7
16 37 Texas A&M University 11 0.56 4.1
17 3 University of Pennsylvania 68 0.54 9.2
18 33 University of Toronto 16 0.54 4.4
19 22 University of California, Los Angeles 25 0.54 5.5
20 16 Cornell University 35 0.53 5.8
21 10 INSEAD 43 0.52 7.0
22 15 University of Rochester 10 0.52 5.9
23 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 39 0.50 7.9
23 14 Harvard University 23 0.50 6.1
23 23 The University of Texas at Austin 23 0.50 5.5
26 11 Indiana University Bloomington 25 0.48 6.8
27 42 University of Chicago 14 0.47 3.9
  • Jing Wu (1.90 · Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  • Luyi Yang (1.78 · University of California, Berkeley)
  • S. Alex Yang (0.88 · University of London)
  • Jing Wu (h=9.4 · Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  • S. Alex Yang (h=8.8 · University of London)
  • Luyi Yang (h=6.2 · University of California, Berkeley)
28 36 University of California, Irvine 6 0.46 4.2
29 46 University of South Carolina 11 0.44 3.7
30 28 Pennsylvania State University 22 0.44 4.9
31 41 Tsinghua University 12 0.43 3.9
32 27 University of London 18 0.42 5.1
33 53 University College London 7 0.38 2.9
34 19 Georgia Institute of Technology 46 0.37 5.6
35 25 University of British Columbia 23 0.36 5.3
36 17 University of Maryland, College Park 29 0.33 5.8
36 31 Arizona State University 21 0.33 4.5
36 40 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 19 0.33 4.0
  • Xiaoyang Long (1.22 · University of Wisconsin–Madison)
  • Tao Lu (0.90 · University of Connecticut)
  • Jun Luo (0.77 · Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
39 39 Western University (Canada) / University of Western at London, Ontario 8 0.29 4.1
40 13 The Ohio State University 37 0.25 6.5
40 30 Purdue University 22 0.25 4.6
  • Jian Wu (3.00 · City University of Hong Kong)
  • Chengzhang Li (0.86 · Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
  • Hui Zhao (0.61 · Pennsylvania State University)
40 32 University of Cambridge 15 0.25 4.4
43 61 McGill University 8 0.24 2.4
44 44 University of Wisconsin–Madison 12 0.21 3.8
45 50 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 10 0.20 3.0
45 56 IE University 7 0.20 2.6
47 45 University of Florida 14 0.20 3.7
48 34 Hong Kong Polytechnic University 12 0.17 4.4
  • Di Fan (0.80 · Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
  • Chris K. Y. Lo (0.61 · Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
  • Hugo Lam (0.55 · University of Liverpool)
  • Chris K. Y. Lo (h=7.6 · Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
  • Di Fan (h=7.0 · Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
  • Hugo Lam (h=6.0 · University of Liverpool)
49 48 WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management 7 0.17 3.5
50 54 University of Tennessee at Knoxville 10 0.14 2.8
51 49 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 14 0.14 3.3
  • Xingyu Bai (1.50 · Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
  • Zhenyu Hu (1.09 · National University of Singapore)
  • Menglong Li (1.00 · City University of Hong Kong)
52 43 Case Western Reserve University 13 0.14 3.8
52 57 Aalto University 8 0.14 2.5
54 35 Erasmus University Rotterdam 24 0.12 4.2
55 64 University of Pittsburgh 9 0.12 2.2
56 51 Clemson University 12 0.11 3.0
57 20 Michigan State University 25 0.10 5.6
58 63 Tilburg University 7 0.08 2.2
59 70 Lancaster University 13 0.06 1.4
  • Arne Strauss (h=2.5 · WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management)
59 60 Virginia Tech 9 0.06 2.4
61 62 University of Science and Technology of China 17 0.06 2.4
  • Yugang Yu (0.70 · University of Science and Technology of China)
  • Xiaolong Guo (0.33 · University of Science and Technology of China)
  • Ye Shi (0.20 · University of Science and Technology of China)
  • Yugang Yu (h=7.0 · University of Science and Technology of China)
  • Xiaolong Guo (h=3.8 · University of Science and Technology of China)
62 66 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 6 0.02 1.9
63 69 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 6 0.02 1.5
64 67 Cardiff University 18 0.00 1.8
64 71 FGV EAESP 12 0.00 0.0
64 55 KU Leuven 10 0.00 2.8
64 58 University of Bath 10 0.00 2.5
64 71 University of Liverpool 9 0.00 0.0
64 52 Fudan University 8 0.00 3.0
64 59 HEC Montreal 8 0.00 2.5
64 71 University of Warwick 8 0.00 0.0
64 68 Cranfield University 7 0.00 1.6
64 65 University of Alabama 7 0.00 2.2
64 71 University of Toulouse 7 0.00 0.0