Risk management and insurance faculty at the University of Georgia Terry College of Business were No. 1 in the nation for research productivity the past five years in the field’s top scholarly publication.
Between 2015 and 2019, Terry’s RMI faculty authored or co-authored the most research papers published in the Journal of Risk and Insurance. For the same time period, Terry’s RMI faculty ranked No. 2 among business schools worldwide for publications in the JRI. The ranking was released at the beginning of March by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Global Research Rankings of Actuarial Science and Risk Management & Insurance.
“The Terry College’s Risk Management and Insurance Program is top ranked and internationally known for the high impact of its research,” said Dean Benjamin C. Ayers. “We are very proud of the faculty’s immense contributions to teaching, research and professional service. Their reputation is well earned and truly global in scope.”
The Actuarial Science Program in the College of Business at the University of Nebraska has tracked publications in the leading risk and insurance research journal and the four leading actuarial journals since 1990.
“We know that Terry RMI faculty are conducting important and impactful research that has significant implications for both the scholarly and business communities,” said Rob Hoyt, head of the Department of Insurance, Legal Studies and Real Estate at Terry. “It is always gratifying to see that in carrying out their research agendas our faculty are performing at the top of their profession. The fact that this No. 1 ranking was achieved through the combined efforts of all of our research-active faculty in the Risk Management and Insurance Program makes this all the more impressive.”
In addition to their national No. 1 ranking in the Journal of Risk and Insurance, the RMI faculty were ranked No. 2 when publications were tallied in all five top journals: Journal of Risk and Insurance, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, North American Actuarial Journal, the ASTIN Bulletin: The Journal of the International Actuarial Association and the Scandinavian Actuarial Journal.
The full set of worldwide and North American rankings are available online at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Global Research Rankings of Actuarial Science and Risk Management & Insurance.