BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and its faculty have again been recognized for its research excellence – in information systems and management and entrepreneurship – in new, objective measures of research activity performed by peers at other institutions.
Earlier this month, 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 recently learned they were ranked No. 2 worldwide for research productivity in the latest Association for Information Systems (AIS) Research Rankings.
Rebecca Slotegraaf
No other business school in Indiana is ranked in the top 15 and no other Big Ten school was ranked higher than Kelley in either ranking.
“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.”
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.
Erik Gonzalez-Mulé
“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
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.
Kyle Cattani
“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.”
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 in North America, 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 those in entrepreneurship and information systems — the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovationand the Data Science and AI Lab.