BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and its faculty have again been recognized for its research excellence – in marketing, information systems and management and entrepreneurship – by new, objective measures of research activity.
Rebecca Slotegraaf
In May, Kelley faculty in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship learned they have maintained their No. 4 ranking in the TAMUGA Research Productivity Rankings. Their peers in the Department of Operations and Decision Technologies also learned they were ranked No. 2 worldwide for research productivity in the latest Association for Information Systems (AIS) Research Rankings.
Earlier this month, the American Marketing Association reported that the Kelley School’s Department of Marketing rose to No. 6 worldwide and No. 4 among public schools in its University Research Productivity rankings in the Premier AMA Journals (between 2015 and 2024), up from No. 11 a year earlier and 17th two years ago.
No other business school in Indiana is ranked in the top 15 and no other Big Ten school was ranked higher than Kelley in the TAMUGA and AIS rankings. In the AMA rankings, Kelley was second in the Big Ten and far ahead of the only other Indiana-based school ranked, the University of Notre Dame (which was 21st).
“It is gratifying to see the work of our professors valued with these rankings coming from within their own academies,” said Rebecca Slotegraaf, the Kelley School’s associate dean for research and a professor of marketing. “The TAMUGA and AIS rankings reinforce the value of the cutting-edge research that happens here every day. Kelley professors contribute to knowledge that American businesses need to thrive, and these rankings demonstrate the quality and importance of their research.”
TAMUGA Rankings for Management and Entrepreneurship
Erik Gonzalez-Mulé
The TAMUGA Research Productivity Rankings, created through a collaboration between the Texas A&M University Mays Business School and University of Georgia Terry College of Business, aggregates publications by management faculty in U.S. business schools in 10 top-tier journals. The rankings reflect publications in a given calendar year. Thus, the 2024 rankings reflect publications that came out “in print” from January to December of 2024.
Only peer-reviewed articles are counted—the counts exclude editorials, calls for papers, and introductions to special or thematic issues, for example. Only papers by management faculty are counted. Any publications by Kelley faculty in other disciplines, such as those in marketing and accounting, were not counted.
By these measures, 17 published papers in 2024 that were authored or co-authored by 31 Kelley management professors were counted.
“Entrepreneurship faculty are extremely productive and at the very top of the field in producing cutting-edge, rigorous, and impactful research,” said Erik Gonzalez-Mulé, the department’s chair and Randall L. Tobias Chair in Leadership. “It is an incredible honor to be ranked so highly compared to such an impressive group of peers. That we retained this high ranking showcases the Kelley School and IU’s dedication to our research mission and the high level of support our faculty enjoy.”
Association for Information Systems Research Rankings
Kyle Cattani
The Association for Information Systems Research Rankings are based on the top three information systems journals — MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research and Journal of Management Information Systems — over the last three years.
Two Kelley professors were highlighted in the AIS rankings for their individual research efforts.
Alan Dennis, Distinguished Professor of Information Systems and the John T. Chambers Chair of Internet Systems, was recognized as the third most productive IS scholar worldwide, and Sagar Samtani, associate professor of operations and decision technologies and Weimer Faculty Fellow, was eighth worldwide.
“I am proud of the incredible work and dedication of our Department of Operations and Decision Technologies,” said Kyle Cattani, the department’s chair, professor of operations management and the Ming Mei Chair. “This recognition underscores our commitment to advancing impactful, rigorous scholarship that shapes the future of information systems, and highlights how the Kelley School and IU has created an environment for a productive range of research.”
American Marketing Association Research Rankings
Lopo Rego
The American Marketing Association rankings are produced annually by the organization’s special interest group for marketing doctoral students, DocSIG, and track publications over a 10-year period.
“Our marketing faculty stand out as remarkably productive, leading the discipline in developing groundbreaking, rigorous, and impactful research,” stated Lopo Rego, the department chair and PetSmart Inc. Distinguished Professor in Marketing Chair. “Achieving such a high ranking among a cohort of outstanding peers is a profound honor. It underscores the unwavering commitment of both the Kelley School and IU to our research culture and the excellent support our faculty receive.”
Tabulating only across the four premier marketing journals (Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science (INFORMS journal), and Journal of Consumer Research, the marketing department was ranked 12th worldwide, and fourth among public schools. For comparison, it was. ranked 14th overall and 5th among public schools based on the 2023 rankings.
The two new rankings follow news in April that Kelley was ranked ninth in the University of Texas at Dallas’ rankings of top research schools, and second among public institutions. The school also was ranked 10th worldwide. That annual ranking is based on research contributions by a school’s faculty over a five-year period.
Kelley is home to 15 research institutes, centers and labs at IU Bloomington and IU Indianapolis, including the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovationand the Data Science and AI Lab.