2026 Mark Ferguson: 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	42	1492	1393	632	576	167	8279

Overview

Mark Ferguson is affiliated with the University of South Carolina in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with contributions spanning several subfields including Marketing, Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, and Transportation.

The scholar's work addresses multiple topics, prominently:

Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
Supply Chain and Inventory Management
Consumer Retail Behavior Studies
Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
Economic and Environmental Valuation
Traffic and Road Safety

Mark Ferguson has a notable presence in academic publishing with research appearing in various journals. Frequent publication venues include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Operations Management
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management
European Journal of Operational Research

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Ferguson are:

"Teaching supply chain risk management in the COVID-19 Age: A review and classroom exercise," 2021, Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education
"Strategic production and responsible sourcing decisions under an emissions trading scheme," 2022, European Journal of Operational Research
"The role of supply chain integration in strengthening the performance of not-for-profit organizations: evidence from the food banking industry," 2020, Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management
"Strategic behavior for hotel standby upgrade programs: Empirical evidence and pricing implications," 2022, Journal of Operations Management
"Estimating Personalized Demand with Unobserved No-Purchases Using a Mixture Model: An Application in the Hotel Industry," 2022, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mark Ferguson include:

Övünç Yılmaz
Pelin Pekgün
Sanghoon Cho
Andrew Vakhutinsky
Aditya Balaram

Best Publications

The Effect of Competition on Recovery Strategies

Mark E. Ferguson;L. Beril Toktay

1102
Citations
Measuring default risk premia from default swap rates and EDFs

Antje Berndt;Rohan Douglas;Darrell Duffie;Darrell Duffie;Mark Ferguson

507
Citations
Is Leasing Greener Than Selling

Vishal V. Agrawal;Mark Ferguson;L. Beril Toktay;Valerie M. Thomas

447
Citations
Supply Chain Coordination for False Failure Returns

Mark Ferguson;V. Daniel R. Guide;Gilvan C. Souza

377
Citations
The Value of Quality Grading in Remanufacturing

Mark Ferguson;V. Daniel R. Guide;Eylem Koca;Gil C. Van Souza

340
Citations
The Car Sharing Economy: Interaction of Business Model Choice and Product Line Design

Ioannis Bellos;Mark E. Ferguson;L. Beril Toktay

306
Citations
Evaluation of postponement structures to accommodate mass customization

Jack C.P. Su;Yih-Long Chang;Mark Ferguson

280
Citations
Relicensing as a Secondary Market Strategy

Nektarios Oraiopoulos;Mark E. Ferguson;L. Beril Toktay

268
Citations
Information Sharing to Improve Retail Product Freshness of Perishables

Mark Ferguson

254
Citations
Multiperiod Remanufacturing Planning With Uncertain Quality of Inputs

Meltem Denizel;Mark Ferguson;Gilvan Souza

215
Citations
How Should a Firm Manage Deteriorating Inventory

Mark E. Ferguson;Oded Koenigsberg

197
Citations
Closed-Loop Supply Chains : New Developments to Improve the Sustainability of Business Practices

Mark E. Ferguson;Gilvan C. Souza

175
Citations
Note: An application of the EOQ model with nonlinear holding cost to inventory management of perishables

Mark E. Ferguson;Vaidy Jayaraman;Gilvan C. Souza

175
Citations
Remanufacturing and the Component Commonality Decision

Ravi Subramanian;Mark E. Ferguson;L. Beril Toktay

167
Citations
Trade-In Rebates for Price Discrimination and Product Recovery

Vishal V. Agrawal;Mark E. Ferguson;Gilvan C. Souza

165
Citations
Managing Slow‐Moving Perishables in the Grocery Industry

Michael Ketzenberg;Mark E. Ferguson

159
Citations
Contrasting Distributions of Urban Green Infrastructure across Social and Ethno-racial Groups

M. Ferguson;H.e. Roberts;R.r.c. Mceachan;M. Dallimer

153
Citations
Estimation of Choice-Based Models Using Sales Data from a Single Firm

Jeffrey P. Newman;Mark E. Ferguson;Laurie A. Garrow;Timothy L. Jacobs

121
Citations
Capacity Investment in Renewable Energy Technology with Supply Intermittency: Data Granularity Matters!

Shanshan Hu;Gilvan C. Souza;Mark E. Ferguson;Wenbin Wang

108
Citations
Commitment decisions with partial information updating

Mark E. Ferguson;Gregory A. DeCroix;Paul Herbert Zipkin

102
Citations
Data Set---Choice-Based Revenue Management: Data from a Major Hotel Chain

Tudor Bodea;Mark Ferguson;Laurie Garrow

102
Citations
A Comparison of Unconstraining Methods to Improve Revenue Management Systems

Carrie Crystal Queenan;Mark Ferguson;Jon Higbie;Rohit Kapoor

97
Citations
How much do online consumers really value free product returns? Evidence from eBay

Guangzhi Shang;Pelin Pekgün;Mark Ferguson;Michael Galbreth

87
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gilvan C. Souza University of Tennessee at Knoxville

L. Beril Toktay Georgia Institute of Technology

Darrell Duffie Stanford University

V. Daniel R. Guide Pennsylvania State University

Anand Nair Northeastern University

Pinar Keskinocak Georgia Institute of Technology

Bert Bras Georgia Institute of Technology

Vaidyanathan Jayaraman S P Jain School of Global Management

Paul Zipkin Duke University

Rosemary R. C. McEachan National Health Service

External Links

Personal website of Mark Ferguson Google Scholar page

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