A profile of OR research and practice published in the Journal of the Operational Research Society

(1) In Table 7 of Katsaliaki et al (2010) the affiliation of the most prolific authors, who have had multiple affiliations over the past decade, has been defined by the affiliation noted in the majority of the articles published by the authors in question over the examined period. In the case of Professor Mingers we ‘incorrectly’ noted the University of Warwick as his affiliation, since six out of a total of nine publications attributed to him during this period were written under the University of Kent affiliation (and only the remaining three articles were written under the University of Warwick affiliation). The affiliation of Professor Mingers in Table 7 should be corrected to read University of Kent. It is also noted that the results of Table 5, which present a list of the top 20 universities that published in JORS between 2000–2009, are not affected as the University-specific statistics are based on the authors’ affiliation stated in each article. (2) The comment following Table 7 should be corrected and the name of Professor Mingers should appear there together with Professor Ormerod and Professor Robinson. It should read: ‘On the other hand, the largest number of first-authored articles were contributed to by Berman (eight articles) and Podinovski (seven articles), followed by Mingers, Ormerod and Robinson, who are the first authors with six articles’. (3) The comment following Table 8 also needs correction. It should read: ‘Nevertheless, the first three most popular articles remain the same in the two tables, both in terms of total and average citations. On the other hand, from the 13 remaining articles only four are common between Tables 8 and 9. These articles are Teng (2002), Mingers (2000), Ulrich (2003) and Mosheiov (2001)’. (4) In the discussion part of our paper the comparison is clearly made between the most productive (in terms of number of publications) authors which appear in Table 1 of Ranyard’s paper and Table 7 in our paper. In these comparable lists only Laporte appears in both and not Mingers. In Katsaliaki et al (2010) no data is presented for the most cited authors and therefore no comparison is being made with Table 3 of Ranyard’s paper. However, it is well worth making a comment that ‘Mingers is presented as one of the most cited JORS authors over the 80s and 90s and also as one of the most prolific authors from 2000 to 2009.’ In the same manner we could also mention that ‘Drezner and Gupta appear as the authors of some of the most cited JORS papers during the 80s and 90s and also in the list of the most productive authors during 2000–2009’.