Dr. Madjid Tavana, professor and department chair of business systems and analytics, has been appointed editor in chief of two new academic journals from Elsevier, the largest scholarly journal publisher in the world.
Tavana will serve as editor in chief of Decision Analytics Journal and Healthcare Analytics. He now serves as the editor of eight peer-reviewed academic journals, including the International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences and the International Journal of Management and Decision Making.
A long time La Salle faculty member, Tavana has been at La Salle for 36 years. A Stanford University study in 2020 ranked Tavana as one of the world’s top scientists in the field of business systems and analytics, based upon research citation metrics and authorship.
Tavana’s research work has taken him to the research labs of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force. It’s led to a relationship with NASA, for which he’s served as a distinguished research fellow for more than a quarter century.
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