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. Last publication data pull: 2026-06-24.

Rank PhD Program Alumni Productivity Impact h-index Top Alumni
1 4 Columbia University 44 0.80 7.9
2 23 Washington University in St. Louis 14 0.73 5.2
3 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 131 0.67 8.9
3 6 Carnegie Mellon University 32 0.67 7.6
3 37 Texas A&M University 9 0.67 4.0
3 42 University of Southern California 9 0.67 3.4
7 17 Duke University 28 0.65 5.7
8 26 National University of Singapore 15 0.63 5.0
  • 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)
9 9 University of Minnesota 26 0.63 6.9
10 27 The University of Texas at Dallas 22 0.63 4.8
11 10 University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 49 0.62 6.8
  • 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)
12 15 University of Rochester 9 0.60 5.8
13 1 Stanford University 91 0.58 9.7
13 8 University of California, Berkeley 29 0.58 6.9
13 32 University of Toronto 15 0.58 4.4
16 24 New York University 14 0.57 5.1
  • Ying-Ju Chen (h=13.3 · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
  • Dorothee Honhon (h=6.7 · The University of Texas at Dallas)
  • Yuqian Xu (h=5.7 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
17 16 Cornell University 30 0.57 5.7
18 21 University of California, Los Angeles 23 0.55 5.4
19 7 INSEAD 40 0.55 7.0
20 11 Northwestern University 37 0.53 6.3
21 3 University of Pennsylvania 63 0.52 8.9
21 12 Indiana University Bloomington 17 0.52 6.2
23 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 35 0.50 7.9
  • Rob Klassen (h=13.0 · Western University (Canada) / University of Western at London, Ontario)
  • Robert B. Handfield (h=9.7 · North Carolina State University)
  • Enno Siemsen (h=9.6 · University of Wisconsin–Madison)
23 13 Harvard University 22 0.50 6.1
23 20 The University of Texas at Austin 21 0.50 5.4
23 39 University of Chicago 13 0.50 3.8
  • Jing Wu (1.60 · Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  • Luyi Yang (1.56 · University of California, Berkeley)
  • S. Alex Yang (0.88 · University of London)
  • S. Alex Yang (h=8.8 · University of London)
  • Jing Wu (h=8.0 · Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  • Luyi Yang (h=6.0 · University of California, Berkeley)
23 45 University of South Carolina 9 0.50 3.2
28 35 University of California, Irvine 6 0.46 4.1
29 30 Pennsylvania State University 15 0.45 4.5
30 25 University of British Columbia 18 0.44 5.0
31 18 Georgia Institute of Technology 41 0.43 5.6
32 31 Arizona State University 17 0.40 4.5
33 28 University of London 16 0.38 4.8
34 51 University College London 7 0.38 2.9
35 40 Tsinghua University 12 0.35 3.7
36 14 The Ohio State University 26 0.35 6.0
37 22 University of Maryland, College Park 25 0.33 5.3
37 38 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 19 0.33 3.9
  • Xiaoyang Long (1.22 · University of Wisconsin–Madison)
  • Tao Lu (0.90 · University of Connecticut)
  • Zhou Xu (0.68 · Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
37 46 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 11 0.33 3.1
  • Zhenyu Hu (1.09 · National University of Singapore)
  • Xingyu Bai (1.00 · Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
  • Menglong Li (0.83 · City University of Hong Kong)
40 33 University of Cambridge 13 0.29 4.3
41 29 Purdue University 20 0.27 4.6
  • Jian Wu (2.00 · City University of Hong Kong)
  • Hui Zhao (0.61 · Pennsylvania State University)
  • Burak Kazaz (0.59 · Syracuse University)
42 36 Western University (Canada) / University of Western at London, Ontario 8 0.26 4.1
43 52 IE University 6 0.25 2.6
44 44 University of Wisconsin–Madison 10 0.21 3.2
45 19 Michigan State University 22 0.20 5.5
45 43 University of Florida 10 0.20 3.3
  • Lian Qi (h=4.0 · Rutgers University at Newark and New Brunswick)
  • Oleg Prokopyev (h=3.6 · University of Zurich)
  • Kai Pan (h=3.5 · Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
45 47 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 9 0.20 3.0
48 53 University of Tennessee at Knoxville 8 0.17 2.5
49 47 WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management 6 0.15 3.0
50 41 Case Western Reserve University 10 0.14 3.4
51 34 Erasmus University Rotterdam 22 0.13 4.2
52 49 Clemson University 9 0.12 3.0
53 56 Tilburg University 7 0.08 2.2
54 55 University of Science and Technology of China 16 0.03 2.4
  • Yugang Yu (0.65 · University of Science and Technology of China)
  • Xiaolong Guo (0.33 · University of Science and Technology of China)
  • Juzhi Zhang (0.18 · University of Science and Technology of China)
  • Yugang Yu (h=6.7 · University of Science and Technology of China)
  • Xiaolong Guo (h=3.8 · University of Science and Technology of China)
55 50 Fudan University 8 0.00 3.0
55 54 HEC Montreal 8 0.00 2.4
55 57 University of Bath 8 0.00 1.6
55 58 University of Amsterdam 6 0.00 0.0
55 58 University of Warwick 6 0.00 0.0