Matthias Fink takes rank 50 in the Handelsblatt 2015 ranking of the 100 most successful management scholars below 40 years of age.
Among the Austrians he is ranked 4th. Besides Matthias Fink from JKU, only scholars from the WU University of Economics and Business and the University of Innsbruck made it to the top 100. The ranking considers the cumulative publication performance in academic journals.