Business Analytics Research Rankings

As data-driven decision-making becomes central to modern business, the scientific and practical value of business analytics research continues to grow. This ranking, based on large-scale data from a wide array of journal and conference papers covering diverse topics and approaches, offers a holistic assessment of the current state of business analytics research.

By identifying top institutions in this field, we provide a valuable resource for scholars, educators, practitioners, and students navigating this dynamic and interdisciplinary domain. We also hope insights from this ranking can shape the future direction of business analytics research which helps to address complex business challenges.

School - Business Analytics Dept ▲ ▼	Number of Faculty 2023 ▲ ▼	Scholarly Output 2018-2023 ▲ ▼	Papers per Person ▲ ▼	Citation Count 2018-2023 ▲ ▼	Citations per Publication 2018-2023 ▲ ▼	Citations per Person ▲ ▼
Howard University	13	3	0.23	7	2.3	0.54
University of California Davis	6	8	1.33	41	5.1	6.83
Baylor University	15	12	0.80	75	6.3	5.00
University of Nebraska Lincoln	13	31	2.38	213	6.9	16.38
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	16	46	2.88	350	7.6	21.88
Michigan State University	17	26	1.53	205	7.9	12.06
Rutgers State University at Newark & New Brunswick	19	53	2.79	461	8.7	24.26
Louisiana Tech University	5	2	0.40	18	9	3.60
Case Western Reserve University	10	12	1.20	110	9.2	11.00
University of Kansas	19	30	1.58	284	9.5	14.95
Southern Methodist University	9	22	2.44	208	9.5	23.11
University of Virginia	13	34	2.62	347	10.2	26.69
Yale University	9	23	2.56	234	10.2	26.00
University of South Carolina Columbia	17	41	2.41	428	10.4	25.18
Pennsylvania State University	27	94	3.48	1073	11.4	39.74
University of Illinois At Chicago	19	39	2.05	446	11.4	23.47
Syracuse University	5	12	2.40	137	11.4	27.40
University of Michigan	21	81	3.86	988	12.2	47.05
University of Buffalo	16	29	1.81	355	12.2	22.19
University of Texas at Dallas	47	244	5.19	3118	12.8	66.34
University of Denver	9	6	0.67	77	12.8	8.56
Purdue University	29	82	2.83	1069	13	36.86
University of Utah	12	23	1.92	300	13	25.00
Ohio State University	27	64	2.37	843	13.2	31.22
John Hopkins University	9	34	3.78	453	13.3	50.33
Columbia University	17	83	4.88	1128	13.6	66.35
Cornell University	14	49	3.50	673	13.7	48.07
University of Pittsburgh	15	48	3.20	658	13.7	43.87
Northeastern University	9	14	1.56	192	13.7	21.33
University of Texas at Austin	37	108	2.92	1485	13.8	40.14
Carnegie Mellon University	24	64	2.67	907	14.2	37.79
Georgia Institute of Technology	25	52	2.08	743	14.3	29.72
Iowa State University	25	20	0.80	287	14.4	11.48
New York University	29	110	3.79	1595	14.5	55.00
Duke University	16	68	4.25	987	14.5	61.69
Northwestern University	12	51	4.25	748	14.7	62.33
Tulane University	12	20	1.67	294	14.7	24.50
Texas A&M University College Station	23	48	2.09	726	15.1	31.57
University of Maryland at College Park	27	109	4.04	1660	15.2	61.48
University of Cincinatti	21	40	1.90	608	15.2	28.95
University of Tennesee Knoxville	35	88	2.51	1355	15.4	38.71
University of Kentucky	15	9	0.60	139	15.4	9.27
University of California Irvine	11	28	2.55	441	15.8	40.09
University of Washington Seattle	17	75	4.41	1203	16	70.76
University of California Riverside	6	20	3.33	324	16.2	54.00
University of South Florida	33	52	1.58	857	16.5	25.97
University of Wisconsin Madison	10	37	3.70	360	17	36.00
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	14	57	4.07	984	17.3	70.29
University of Chicago	12	71	5.92	1232	17.4	102.67
William and Mary University	10	13	1.30	228	17.5	22.80
University of Connecticut	23	65	2.83	1144	17.6	49.74
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	36	176	4.89	3138	17.8	87.17
University of Oregon	7	12	1.71	214	17.8	30.57
George Mason University	20	25	1.25	454	18.2	22.70
Clemson University	20	23	1.15	421	18.3	21.05
Arizona State University	52	107	2.06	1990	18.6	38.27
University of Notre Dame	21	55	2.62	1024	18.6	48.76
Dartmouth College	8	30	3.75	563	18.8	70.38
Fordham University	22	45	2.05	338	18.8	15.36
George Washington University	25	42	1.68	798	19	31.92
Oklahoma State University	14	19	1.36	365	19.2	26.07
University of Arizona	12	66	5.50	1300	19.7	108.33
Indiana University Bloomington	34	88	2.59	1760	20	51.76
Rice University	5	22	4.40	344	20.2	68.80
Vanderbilt University	6	8	1.33	163	20.4	27.17
University of Minnesota Twin Cities	28	92	3.29	1888	20.5	67.43
University of Iowa	17	65	3.82	1331	20.5	78.29
University of Rochester	6	25	4.17	513	20.5	85.50
Stanford University	17	85	5.00	1773	20.9	104.29
University of Southern California	29	89	3.07	1876	21.1	64.69
North Carolina State University	8	19	2.38	402	21.2	50.25
Georgia State University	13	42	3.23	894	21.3	68.77
Santa Clara	21	26	1.24	563	21.7	26.81
University of California San Diego	8	15	1.88	336	22.4	42.00
University of Colorado Boulder	14	11	0.79	251	22.8	17.93
University of Florida	17	74	4.35	1696	22.9	99.76
Auburn University	26	14	0.54	327	23.4	12.58
University of Delaware	15	10	0.67	235	23.5	15.67
University of Houston	22	56	2.55	1331	23.8	60.50
University of Massachusetts Amherst	13	21	1.62	513	24.4	39.46
University of Alabama Tuscaloosa	31	35	1.13	856	24.5	27.61
Virginia Tech University	26	50	1.92	1243	24.9	47.81
Lehigh University	8	4	0.50	100	25	12.50
Georgetown University	18	48	2.67	1215	25.3	67.50
Emory University	19	46	2.42	1170	25.4	61.58
Stony Brook University	8	17	2.13	431	25.4	53.88
Temple University	28	107	3.82	2767	25.9	98.82
University of California Los Angeles	15	84	5.60	2179	25.9	145.27
University of Miami	18	46	2.56	1228	26.7	68.22
Drexel University	13	8	0.62	215	26.9	16.54
University of California Berkeley	8	29	3.63	785	27.1	98.13
Harvard University	30	48	1.60	1338	27.9	44.60
Texas Christian University	9	18	2.00	503	27.9	55.89
Boston College	12	21	1.75	598	28.5	49.83
University of Pennsylvania	28	111	3.96	3178	28.6	113.50
Washington University St. Louis	9	62	6.89	1808	29.2	200.89
Brigham Young University	16	13	0.81	420	32.3	26.25
Saint Louis University	8	5	0.63	164	32.8	20.50
Boston University	22	79	3.59	2697	34.1	122.59
University of Arkansas Fayetteville	27	34	1.26	1184	34.8	43.85
University of Hawaii	7	5	0.71	189	37.8	27.00
University of Oklahoma	14	15	1.07	578	38.5	41.29
University of Georgia	17	25	1.47	1029	41.2	60.53
American University	13	16	1.23	825	51.6	63.46
Louisiana State University	13	5	0.38	314	62.8	24.15

Current “A” journal list

Decision Support Systems
European Journal of Operational Research
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Information Systems Research
INFORMS J Computing
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Journal of Machine Learning Research
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Operations Management
Journal of the American Statistical Association
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B
Management Science
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
Mathematical Programming
MIS Quarterly
Operations Research
Production and Operations Management
SIAM Journal on Optimization
Transportation Science

Conferences

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Web Conference (WWW)

Methodology

We chose schools for this initial ranking based on a number of collegiate memberships (e.g., AAU) and business school research and education rankings (e.g., US News).
The departments in each business school that most closely matched our definition of "business analytics" were identified.
Tenured and tenure-track faculty in each of those departments were identified.
SciVal / Scopus queries were run to gather faculty productivity over the time window 2018 through mid-2023, based on the Tippie Business Analytics Journal List.

^{Note: We found Scopus indexing to be more complete than other options. However, "total citations received during the past five years,” as recorded by Google Scholar, is not currently available in SciVal. We consider this to be a superior measure of recent impact and are working with the vendor to make this option available in a future release, after which we will use it for our citation counts.}

Contact information

If you have any questions about this list, please contact us at Tippie-research@uiowa.edu.