Research field intelligence

Decision Sciences Research Strength

Name: Decision Sciences University Research Ranking & Trends – ITS Research Solution
Creator: ITS Research Solution

Explore universities with the strongest current Decision Sciences topic signals in the ITS Research Intelligence database, alongside institution-level research performance and growth.

Research landscape

Decision Sciences currently has 98 index-ready universities contributing strong topic signals in the local database. Their aggregated topic-signal volume is 57,767 works. The average overall ITS Research Performance Score across this set is 52.1, while average five-year publication growth is 11.6%.

The ranking below combines the strength of an institution’s field signal with its overall research-performance score and recent growth. It should be read as a research-intelligence indicator, not as a complete subject ranking of teaching, reputation, facilities or student outcomes.

Leading universities in Decision Sciences

Rank	University	Country	Field score	Field signal	Overall works	Growth
#1	Universidade de São Paulo	Brazil	86.3	6,495	128,674	-22.8%
#2	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina	Brazil	83.7	6,079	35,822	-15.8%
#3	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Brazil	82.5	4,776	51,642	-20.6%
#4	Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)	Brazil	81.0	3,862	57,671	-19.9%
#5	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil	81.0	3,755	46,423	-11.5%
#6	Universidade de Brasília	Brazil	80.1	3,914	35,347	-17.0%
#7	Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)	Brazil	79.5	2,979	59,868	-16.1%
#8	Universidade Federal do Paraná	Brazil	79.4	3,478	37,685	-16.8%
#9	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	79.1	2,953	54,207	-18.7%
#10	McMaster University	Canada	78.9	2,643	45,411	-21.8%
#11	University of Ottawa	Canada	74.8	1,594	42,836	-22.1%
#12	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Norway	73.1	1,008	50,300	11.4%
#13	University of Johannesburg	South Africa	72.0	1,295	42,691	-31.2%
#14	Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie	Brazil	70.7	1,564	5,663	-11.2%
#15	University of Tehran	Iran	70.4	989	37,689	-25.9%
#16	University of York	United Kingdom	70.4	908	26,944	-12.3%
#17	Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina	Brazil	66.1	770	2,920	15.0%
#18	Yuan Ze University	Taiwan	63.3	370	5,953	28.9%
#19	Guarulhos University	Brazil	61.0	119	2,185	202.3%
#20	Iona College	United States	60.2	649	362	-36.8%
#21	Islamic Azad University, Karaj	Iran	60.2	439	2,219	-20.0%
#22	Universidade de Taubaté	Brazil	60.0	441	1,990	0.7%
#23	National Taichung University of Science and Technology	Taiwan	59.1	380	1,345	-9.0%
#24	San Antonio College	United States	57.8	424	3,003	-83.1%
#25	Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul	Brazil	57.5	252	1,919	26.3%
#26	Chinese Culture University	Taiwan	56.9	294	1,442	-21.2%
#27	Al al-Bayt University	Jordan	56.0	206	3,290	-4.4%
#28	La Salle University	United States	55.8	264	1,761	-20.5%
#29	Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology	Taiwan	55.7	247	1,485	-18.4%
#30	National Changhua University of Education	Taiwan	55.1	190	1,942	-0.8%
#31	Chung Hua University	Taiwan	54.8	245	470	-1.7%
#32	Universidade de Mogi das Cruzes	Brazil	54.5	158	989	49.5%
#33	Universidade de Uberaba	Brazil	54.4	210	1,949	4.3%
#34	Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte	Brazil	53.7	223	1,826	-24.2%
#35	National Chiayi University	Taiwan	52.3	123	2,243	6.0%
#36	Universidade de Santo Amaro	Brazil	51.9	115	2,592	25.7%
#37	Lawrence Technological University	United States	51.3	120	809	30.0%
#38	Universidade Católica de Santos	Brazil	51.0	164	880	-10.8%
#39	Universidade Veiga de Almeida	Brazil	50.9	105	1,309	45.3%
#40	Kohat University of Science and Technology	Pakistan	50.9	115	3,193	-19.5%
#41	Polytechnic University of the Philippines	Philippines	50.8	79	1,854	88.0%
#42	Gomal University	Pakistan	50.6	85	4,139	17.2%
#43	Prof. Assen Zlatarov University	Bulgaria	50.6	118	823	22.4%
#44	University of Birjand	Iran	50.1	118	3,189	-35.9%
#45	Tamil University	India	50.0	83	1,548	45.8%
#46	Tzu Chi College of Technology	Taiwan	49.1	33	260	304.9%
#47	Buckinghamshire New University	United Kingdom	49.1	42	700	136.8%
#48	Faculdade de Medicina de Marília	Brazil	48.8	91	1,491	3.4%
#49	Rangsit University	Thailand	48.7	69	2,628	26.5%
#50	College Board	United States	48.0	62	182	77.1%
#51	Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science	Taiwan	47.5	80	1,141	-18.4%
#52	Yuanpei University	Taiwan	47.3	92	775	-22.3%
#53	El Paso Community College	United States	46.6	96	392	11.6%
#54	Pai Chai University	South Korea	46.5	81	467	-10.8%
#55	Robert Morris University	United States	46.4	86	556	-16.7%
#56	University of Houston - Downtown	United States	45.9	69	1,019	-5.4%
#57	Shih Chien University	Taiwan	45.7	71	487	-15.5%
#58	Universidade Vale do Rio Verde	Brazil	45.6	132	234	-55.7%
#59	Gannon University	United States	45.2	38	941	65.2%
#60	Kursk State Medical University	Russia	45.1	73	1,289	-29.5%
#61	Universidade Europeia	Portugal	44.4	53	1,227	1.7%
#62	Universidade Santa Úrsula	Brazil	44.4	59	560	28.1%
#63	Slippery Rock University	United States	44.3	76	659	-40.4%
#64	Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Coimbra	Portugal	44.1	27	987	97.7%
#65	Central Connecticut State University	United States	44.0	51	1,179	-7.5%
#66	Instituto Superior de Ciências da Informação e da Administração	Portugal	43.5	115	231	-67.9%
#67	Universidade Ibirapuera	Brazil	42.9	72	594	-58.9%
#68	American Society for Microbiology	United States	42.2	37	133	55.3%
#69	Academy of Medicine	Singapore	42.0	25	327	100.0%
#70	Troy University	United States	41.8	37	1,075	2.1%
#71	Centro Universitário Filadélfia	Brazil	41.3	66	496	-40.4%
#72	Capella University	United States	41.2	30	460	54.6%
#73	Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies	United States	41.1	31	387	24.2%
#74	Education Northwest	United States	40.8	48	212	-23.7%
#75	China University of Science and Technology	Taiwan	40.5	37	133	20.4%
#76	Florida Memorial University	United States	40.4	27	282	57.6%
#77	School District of Philadelphia	United States	40.3	16	150	145.7%
#78	Frostburg State University	United States	39.8	30	315	21.1%
#79	Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences	India	39.6	24	705	43.0%
#80	Dalton State College	United States	39.3	15	274	133.3%
#81	College of American Pathologists	United States	38.8	31	148	-1.8%
#82	University of South Carolina Upstate	United States	38.2	25	773	1.0%
#83	Northwest Missouri State University	United States	38.0	24	466	5.8%
#84	Ontario Council of University Libraries	Canada	37.9	29	170	16.9%
#85	Union Graduate College	United States	37.9	29	203	32.1%
#86	Meiho University	Taiwan	37.6	25	541	-14.9%
#87	Arkansas Tech University	United States	37.5	27	509	-21.2%
#88	Instituto Superior de Comunicação Empresarial	Portugal	36.4	45	105	-40.4%
#89	Instituto Superior de Educação e Trabalho	Portugal	35.4	23	160	25.5%
#90	Christian Brothers University	United States	35.1	19	195	11.3%
#91	Community of Mediterranean Universities	Italy	34.6	20	153	8.3%
#92	Academy of Management	United States	33.6	22	277	-42.7%
#93	Polk State College	United States	33.3	11	150	90.9%
#94	Polo Universitario Città di Prato	Italy	33.0	12	159	59.6%
#95	Clark County School District	United States	30.3	14	158	-27.2%
#96	San Jose City College	United States	28.6	7	135	52.0%
#97	Pfeiffer University	United States	27.4	11	100	-60.7%
#98	Florida SouthWestern State College	United States	23.8	4	113	23.7%

How to interpret this field page

Field classifications are inferred from the scholarly works associated with institutions in OpenAlex. An institution can therefore appear strongly in several fields at once, and topic classifications may evolve as the scholarly graph is updated. ITS Research Solution does not infer a faculty or department simply from the existence of a topic signal.

Quality before quantity

Why every database record does not become an SEO page

ITS Research Solution only indexes pages when the underlying data is rich enough to support useful comparison and interpretation. Registry-only records, short research histories, missing topics and low-completeness profiles stay in the database but remain outside the public sitemap. This prevents repetitive, thin institution and subject pages.

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