2026 Christian Terwiesch: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	52	866	806	373	341	103	14682
Engineering and Technology	52	3544	3394	1040	951	80	14385

Overview

Christian Terwiesch is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans the health professions, with a particular focus on healthcare operations and scheduling optimization.

Terwiesch's work engages with several subfields including emergency medical services, strategy and management, general health professions, emergency medicine, and management information systems. The main topics addressed in their research include:

Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization
Emergency and Acute Care Studies
Healthcare Policy and Management
AI in Service Interactions
Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
Open Source Software Innovations
Knowledge Management and Sharing

The scientist has contributed extensively to the academic literature with recent notable publications such as:

"Ideas are Dimes a Dozen: Large Language Models for Idea Generation in Innovation" (2023) in SSRN Electronic Journal
"Customizing Primary Care Delivery Using E-Visits" (2021) in Production and Operations Management
"Prompting Diverse Ideas: Increasing AI Idea Variance" (2024) in SSRN Electronic Journal
"The Impact of Facility Layout on Service Worker Behavior: An Empirical Study of Nurses in the Emergency Department" (2021) in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
"Capacity Rationing in Primary Care: Provider Availability Shocks and Channel Diversion" (2021) in Management Science

Terwiesch frequently collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

Karl T. Ulrich
Lennart Meincke
Lesley Meng
Ethan Mollick
Hessam Bavafa

The scientist's research is published predominantly in venues such as:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Management Science
University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks
Production and Operations Management
Nature Human Behaviour

Christian Terwiesch has also authored books, including "The Innovation Tournament Handbook" published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 2022.

Best Publications

Innovation Contests, Open Innovation, and Multiagent Problem Solving

Christian Terwiesch;Yi Xu

1243
Citations
Idea Generation and the Quality of the Best Idea

Karan Girotra;Christian Terwiesch;Karl T. Ulrich

1048
Citations
Matching Supply with Demand

Gerard Cachon;Christian Terwiesch

812
Citations
Innovation Tournaments: Creating and Selecting Exceptional Opportunities

Christian Terwiesch;Karl T. Ulrich

605
Citations
Communication and Uncertainty in Concurrent Engineering

Christoph H. Loch;Christian Terwiesch

565
Citations
Impact of Workload on Service Time and Patient Safety: An Econometric Analysis of Hospital Operations

Diwas S. Kc;Christian Terwiesch

552
Citations
Learning and Process Improvement during Production Ramp-Up

Christian Terwiesch;Roger E. Bohn

464
Citations
Exchanging Preliminary Information in Concurrent Engineering: Alternative Coordination Strategies

Christian Terwiesch;Christoph H. Loch;Arnoud De Meyer

446
Citations
Matching Supply with Demand: An Introduction to Operations Management

Gérard Cachon;Christian Terwiesch

371
Citations
Research Note: User Design of Customized Products

Taylor Randall;Christian Terwiesch;Karl T. Ulrich

358
Citations
Measuring the Effectiveness of Overlapping Development Activities

Christian Terwiesch;Christoph H. Loch

348
Citations
USER DESIGN OF CUSTOMIZED PRODUCTS

Taylor Randall;Christian Terwiesch;Karl T. Ulrich

330
Citations
Managing the Process of Engineering Change Orders: The Case of the Climate Control System in Automobile Development

Christian Terwiesch;Christoph H. Loch

328
Citations
Measuring the Frictional Costs of Online Transactions: The Case of a Name-Your-Own-Price Channel

Il-Horn Hann;Christian Terwiesch

327
Citations
Valuing R&D Projects in a Portfolio: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry

Karan Girotra;Christian Terwiesch;Karl T. Ulrich

308
Citations
An Econometric Analysis of Patient Flows in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

Diwas Singh Kc;Christian Terwiesch

306
Citations
Retail Assortment Planning in the Presence of Consumer Search

Gérard P. Cachon;Christian Terwiesch;Yi Xu

301
Citations
Parallel and Sequential Testing of Design Alternatives

Christoph H. Loch;Christian Terwiesch;Stefan Thomke

301
Citations
Measuring Development Performance in the Electronics Industry

Christoph Loch;Lothar Stein;Christian Terwiesch

263
Citations
Structural Estimation of the Effect of Out-of-Stocks

Andrés Musalem;Marcelo Olivares;Eric T. Bradlow;Christian Terwiesch

262
Citations
Managing Demand and Sales Dynamics in New Product Diffusion Under Supply Constraint

Teck-Hua Ho;Sergei Savin;Christian Terwiesch

258
Citations
Structural Estimation of the Newsvendor Model: An Application to Reserving Operating Room Time

Marcelo Olivares;Christian Terwiesch;Lydia Cassorla

245
Citations
The Impact of Work Load on Service Time and Patient Safety: An Econometric Analysis of Hospital Operations

Diwas Singh Kc;Christian Terwiesch

94
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Christoph H. Loch University of Navarra

Karl T. Ulrich University of Pennsylvania

Teck-Hua Ho Nanyang Technological University

Steven C. Marcus University of Pennsylvania

Gérard P. Cachon University of Pennsylvania

Kevin G. Volpp University of Pennsylvania

Morris A. Cohen University of Pennsylvania

Eric T. Bradlow University of Pennsylvania

Andrea B. Troxel New York University

David A. Asch University of Pennsylvania

External Links

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