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ERIC Number: EJ1118415
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Dec
Pages: 6
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-1052-5629
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What, Who, or Where? Rejoinder to "Identifying Research Topic Development in Business and Management Education Research Using Legitimation Code Theory"
Harzing, Anne-Wil
Journal of Management Education, v40 n6 p726-731 Dec 2016
This brief commentary investigates whether article topic, author profile, or journal rank significantly influence an article's citation levels. Anne-Wil Harzing's regression analysis shows that, when all factors are taken into account at the same time, it is "what" is published (topic) and "who" has published it (author) that have the largest impact on citations, not "where" it is published (journal). Hence, the commonly used practice of using the prestige of a journal--oftentimes operationalized as the ISI (Thomson Reuters' Web of Science) journal impact factor--as a proxy for (citation) impact is clearly not appropriate for the field of business and management education. It is thus rightly condemned by San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA; http://www.ascb.org/dora/) and should not be used in academic evaluation. Instead, as Arbaugh et al. (2016) do, individual articles should be evaluated on their own merit and--especially in the Social Sciences and Humanities--any analysis of citation impact should use Google Scholar as a preferred data source rather than the ISI Web of Science. [This article responds to "Identifying Research Topic Development in Business and Management Education Research Using Legitimation Code Theory" (EJ1118407).]
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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