Hsieh PN, Chang PL "An assessment of world-wide research productivity in production and operations management " INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS 120(2):540-551, August 2009

[Eugene Garfield]

e-mail: pnhsieh at ntu.edu.tw  

TITLE : An assessment of world-wide research productivity in production and 
operations management 
   
Author(s): Hsieh PN (Hsieh, Pao-Nuan)1, Chang PL (Chang, Pao-Long)2
  
Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS    Volume: 120    
Issue: 2    Special Issue: Sp. Iss. SI    Pages: 540-551    Published: AUG 
2009    

Times Cited: 0     References: 56     Citation Map      

 Abstract: Journal publications are important to facilitate knowledge 
sharing among production and operations management (POM) academics and 
practitioners. The purpose of this study was to explore the global POM 
research performance based on papers published in 20 core POM journals in 
the past half century. The data for the study were obtained from Thomson 
Reuters' Web of Science/Knowledge databases, from 1959 to 2008, when 63,776 
papers were published in POM journals. The annual distribution of papers 
published shows a significant growth in POM research productivity over the 
time period 1959 to 2008. The most productive authors in these five decades 
were T.C. Edwin Cheng from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong; 
Gilbert Laporte from HEC Montreal, Canada; S.K. Goyal from Concordia 
University, Canada; S. Eilon from the University of London, UK; and Oded 
Berman from the University of Toronto, Canada. The five most productive 
institutions were as follows: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Georgia Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Purdue University, 
and the University of Michigan. The countries found to have the highest 
outputs were the USA, the UK, Canada, the Netherlands and Taiwan. (C) 2009 
Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 
Document Type: Article  
Language: English  
Author Keywords: Production and operations management; Scientific 
productivity; Bibliometric analysis  
KeyWords Plus: INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY; RETAIL SUPPLY CHAINS; 
BIBLIOMETRIC DISTRIBUTIONS; FINANCE LITERATURE; BUSINESS-RESEARCH; RESEARCH 
OUTPUT; FUTURE-RESEARCH; POM RESEARCH; JOURNALS; PATTERNS  
Reprint Address: Hsieh, PN (reprint author), Natl Taiwan Univ, Dept Lib & 
Informat Sci, 1,Sect 4,Roosevelt Rd, Taipei 10617, Taiwan  

Addresses: 
1. Natl Taiwan Univ, Dept Lib & Informat Sci, Taipei 10617, Taiwan  
2. Feng Chia Univ, Dept Business Adm, Taichung 40724, Taiwan   
E-mail Addresses: pnhsieh at ntu.edu.tw   
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS  

IDS Number: 497RO  
ISSN: 0925-5273  
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2009.03.015  

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