Hungarian professor among the world’s top 10 public procurement researchers

Tünde Tátrai, a researcher at Corvinus University and a member of the Public Procurement Authority, is among the top 10 scholars in the world specialising in public procurement, according to an international study that analysed the professional articles of nearly 1,300 authors from the past four decades.

Tünde Tátrai, a professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest, is one of the world’s most prominent authors on public procurement, according to a study published a few months ago in the Journal of Public Procurement, the leading journal of the public procurement profession, which examined the literature published on the subject since the beginning of public procurement research between 1984 and May 2022. The analysis included 640 publications by 1247 authors from the Scopus international research database.

According to the study, the most significant researcher is Andrei Yakovlev from Harvard University, followed by Michael Essig from the Bundeswehr University in Munich as the second, and Helen Walker from Cardiff University as the third. Tünde Tátrai, researcher at Corvinus, is 10th on the list and the second most influential female researcher in the world in the field of public procurement. Tünde Tátrai has been a professor and researcher at Corvinus University since 1997, currently she is a professor at the Department of Supply Chain Management of the Institute of Operations and Decision Sciences, co-chair of the Professorial Board, a public procurement expert of the European Commission’s Electronic Public Procurement Working Group, and a member of the Public Procurement Authority since 2019.