According to a study lately published in the International Journal of Production Research, PolyU ranks 12th in the world and 2nd in Asia among worldwide institutions in research productivity and contribution. The study measured the research contributions over a 26-year time frame (1985–2010) of academic institutions and individual authors to the field of operations management (OM) based on published articles in 11 top-rated and well-known academic OM journals.
Also, three academics were among the top 50 prolific authors list who have made the greatest overall contribution to the field as measured by the number of distributed and shared articles published in the 11 designated journals. They were: Prof. Edwin Cheng Tai-chiu (1st/1st) and Prof. Li Chung-lun (30th/37th ) at Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies and Prof. Felix Chan T.S. (15th/49th ) at Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.