KINGSTON, RI — A business professor at the University of Rhode Island was named to Stanford University’s rankings of the top 2 percent of scientists in the world.
Mahtab Kouhizadeh, an assistant professor of supply chain management, made Stanford’s list. The Stanford list, considered the most prestigious in the world, is based on bibliometric factors contained in the Scopus database provided by Elsevier, a global information analytics company and academic publisher. The rankings consider scholars who have published numerous highly cited papers and uses various metrics to evaluate the citation impact of researchers’ work over their career and a single year. The rankings are based on citations from 2023.
“This ranking identifies top scientists with a percentile of 2 percent or higher in all fields and within the subfield of business and management — so being included among this group is a great honor,” Kouhizadeh said. “It’s encouraging to gain recognition from fellow scholars, especially at an early stage in my career.”
Kouhizadeh, who earned her doctorate in operations management from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2021, has focused her research on supply chain management, blockchain technology, network optimization, and sustainability. Her research explores issues that impact businesses, along with emerging technologies, such as blockchain, and their implications on supply chain management and sustainability.
“Supply chain management fascinates me because it connects a network of organizations involved in delivering products and services to customers,” Kouhizadeh, said. “Every product you buy from a store has a journey to get there, involving various logistics, operations, and scheduling. I focus on network optimization to improve supply chain networks by reducing costs and increasing efficiency.”
Kouhizadeh’s research has been published in peer-reviewed journals as Production Planning and Control and Industrial Management and Data Systems, and garnered more than 6,800 citations since her first paper was published in 2018, according to Google Scholar.
Her most cited papers have been on timely topics and published in leading journals in the field. “Blockchain technology and its relationships to sustainable supply chain management,” published in the International Journal of Production Research in 2019, has been cited 3,518 times.
“Having my work cited means that other scholars use and reference my research, ideas, or findings in their own work,” Kouhizadeh said. “It shows that my research is being recognized, and my insights are contributing to the advancement of the scholarly field and influencing new research developments.”
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