POTSDAM -- The Rothkopf Rankings has placed Clarkson University among the top schools in the United States for contribution to operations research practice literature.

Operations research is the scientific discipline of applying advanced analytics methods to improve management decision-making. Practice literature refers to publications on operations research methods used in industry, governments and other nonprofit organizations.

Clarkson was honored in three categories related to visibility, yield and impact.

Clarkson ranked 19th among U.S. institutions for its "yield" score for practice-based publications. Yield records the proportional contribution of an institution's authors to practice-centric publications.

In the visibility category, Clarkson placed 23rd. Only 44 institutions in the U.S. were recognized for the amount of operations research articles and columns published in the academic journals Interfaces and Operations Research. Each column was counted as one-half of an article.

Clarkson ranked 25th for "academic yield," which is the proportion of an institution's academic contribution to operations research articles on practice. This measure shows the academic yield of authors while removing any penalty from working with practitioners.

Published in Interfaces by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Rothkopf Rankings assess the activity of universities in the production of practice-centric operations research between 2009 and 2015.