The Department ranks among the world's best in terms of quality research in operations management and information systems in an international study conducted by ORMS Today (December 2002, Vol. 29, No. 6), which looked at frequency of publications in the four top journals in the field - Management Science, Operations Research, Information Systems Research and the INFORMS Journal on Computing.  The study which reviewed 1,692 academic units worldwide that specialize in the field placed HKUST in 12th place based on research output from 1997 to 2002.