Editorial: The 13th Rothkopf Rankings: All-Time Interfaces/INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics 50-Year Anniversary Special Edition

In 1996, Michael Rothkopf created an index of institutional contributions to the practice of operations research (OR) and management science (MS). Since then, Ron Fricker and I have continued to calculate, evolve, and extend this ranking. In this Interfaces (INT) and INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics (IJAA) anniversary ranking, I analyze organizational contributions to the practice of OR/MS in INT since the inception of the journal in 1971. I calculate all three prior ranking measures—visibility, yield, and academic yield—and a blend of the rankings. This analysis considers only articles in INT/IJAA, which is a departure from prior rankings, which included applied work in some other journals. However, for the first time, we have a single database of every article ever published in INT/IJAA, allowing analysis of trends over time. I am also able to compute the all-time contributions of nonacademic institutions as done by Fricker in 2012.

Astrology’s Role in New Age Culture: A Research Note

The practice of, or belief in, astrology is generally considered a central feature of modern New Age culture. Research conducted by Stuart Rose in the 1990s contradicted this assumption. This paper does not argue that astrology is a New Age discipline, but challenges Rose’s methodology and his reasons or arguing that it is not New Age. The paper reports on research relying on two other measures by used Rose to argue that astrology can be New Age but does not have to be New Age.