Russell L. Ackoff

14.1k total citations · 7 hit papers
168 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Russell L. Ackoff is a scholar working on Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Russell L. Ackoff has authored 168 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Management Science and Operations Research, 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Russell L. Ackoff's work include Complex Systems and Decision Making (29 papers), Information Systems Theories and Implementation (5 papers) and Operations Management Techniques (5 papers). Russell L. Ackoff is often cited by papers focused on Complex Systems and Decision Making (29 papers), Information Systems Theories and Implementation (5 papers) and Operations Management Techniques (5 papers). Russell L. Ackoff collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and United Kingdom. Russell L. Ackoff's co-authors include C. West Churchman, F. E. Emery, William R. Mason, E. Leonard Arnoff, John Warfield, Jamshid Gharajedaghi, Peter H. Grinyer, Maurice Sasieni, Peter Moore and Thomas L. Saaty and has published in prestigious journals such as Academy of Management Review, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Journal of Marketing.

In The Last Decade

Russell L. Ackoff

161 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Management Misinformation Systems

1967 701 citations Russell L. Ackoff profile →
The Future of Operational Research is Past

1979 662 citations Russell L. Ackoff Journal of the Operational Research Society profile →
Towards a System of Systems Concepts

1971 648 citations Russell L. Ackoff profile →
Introduction to Operations Research.

1959 520 citations Russell L. Ackoff, E. Leonard Arnoff et al. Economica profile →
A concept of corporate planning

1970 421 citations Russell L. Ackoff profile →
On purposeful systems

1972 374 citations Russell L. Ackoff et al. profile →
An Approximate Measure of Value

1954 332 citations C. West Churchman, Russell L. Ackoff profile →

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Citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Russell L. Ackoff

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	TRANSFORMING THE SYSTEMS MOVEMENT 2004 ·Russell L. Ackoff	28
2	Much Tqm Today is Neither Total, Quality, Nor Management Beyond Total Quality Management 1993 ·Journal for Quality and Participation ·Russell L. Ackoff	3
3	Benchmarking 1993 ·Systemic Practice and Action Research ·Russell L. Ackoff	2
4	Ackoff's fables : irreverent reflections on business and bureaucracy 1991 ·Wiley eBooks ·Russell L. Ackoff	6
5	Presidents' Symposium: OR, A Post Mortem 1987 ·Operations Research ·Russell L. Ackoff	56
6	Where do You Intend to Go Now 1986 ·Russell L. Ackoff	0
7	Ackoff's fables 1979 ·Omega ·Russell L. Ackoff	17
8	Resurrecting the Future of Operational Research 1979 ·Journal of the Operational Research Society ·Russell L. Ackoff	15
9	La revolución de los sistemas 1977 ·Russell L. Ackoff	0
10	Designing a national scientific and technological communication system 1976 ·University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks ·Russell L. Ackoff	6
11	Méthodes de planification dans l'entreprise 1973 ·Russell L. Ackoff	1
12	Введение в исследование операций 1968 ·C. West Churchman, E. Leonard Arnoff, Russell L. Ackoff, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	1
13	A Basic Look at Operations Research 1968 ·Journal of Risk & Insurance ·(unknown), Russell L. Ackoff, Patrick Rivett	4
14	Systems Theory from an Operations Research Point of View 1965 ·(unknown), Russell L. Ackoff	16
15	Éléments de recherche opérationnelle 1961 ·Dunod eBooks ·C. West Churchman, Russell L. Ackoff, E. Leonard Arnoff, (unknown), Pierre Rosenstiehl	1
16	Introduction to Operations Research. breakdown → 1959 ·Economica ·(unknown), (unknown), Russell L. Ackoff, E. Leonard Arnoff	520
17	Introduction to Operations Research. 1957 ·Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General) ·Ira Hill, C. West Churchman, Russell L. Ackoff, E. Leonard Arnoff	35
18	Introduction to Operations Research. 1957 ·OR ·(unknown), C. West Churchman, Russell L. Ackoff, E. Leonard Arnoff	35
19	The Design of Social Research. 1955 ·(unknown), Russell L. Ackoff	20
20	Scientific Method and Social Science--East and West 1952 ·Russell L. Ackoff	0

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