Showing posts with label Tenure issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tenure issues. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

2017 Scholar Metrics Released

Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. GS is releasing the 2017 version of Scholar Metrics. This release covers articles published in 2012–2016 and includes citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of June 2017.

To get started, you can browse the top 100 publications in several languages, ordered by their five-year h-index and h-median metrics. To see which articles in a publication were cited the most and who cited them, click on its h-index number to view the articles as well as the citations underlying the metrics.

You can also explore publications in research areas of your interest. To browse publications in a broad area of research, select one of the areas in the left column. For example: Top publications for FINANCE category.

Monday, January 2, 2017

2016 Google Scholar Metrics



This year's release covers "articles published between 2011 and 2015, both inclusive. The metrics are based on citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar in June 2016.

This also includes citations from articles that are not themselves covered by Scholar Metrics."

Methodology, coverage and inclusion criteria are available from this page.

Exple: Top 10 publications for Marketing category:

1.            Journal of Business Research
2.            Journal of Marketing
3.            Journal of Consumer Research
4.            Industrial Marketing Management
5.            Journal of Marketing Research
6.            Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
7.            European Journal of Marketing
8.            Journal of Consumer Psychology
9.            Marketing Science
10.          Journal of Retailing

Browse the top 100 publications

Monday, June 29, 2015

2015 Google Scholar Metrics

This year's release covers "articles published between 2010 and 2014, both inclusive. The metrics are based on citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar in June 2015. This also includes citations from articles that are not themselves covered by Scholar Metrics."

Methodology, coverage and inclusion criteria are available from this page.

Exple: Top 10 publications for Game Theory and Decision Science category:
  1. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  2. Games and Economic Behavior
  3. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
  4. arXiv Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
  5. ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce
  6. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
  7. Experimental Economics
  8. Theoretical Economics
  9. Decision Sciences
  10. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Monday, April 13, 2015

AAUP Faculty Salary Survey 2014-2015

Busting the Myths, the annual update to the Staff and Faculty survey from the AAUP has been released. You can search the results from 4700 colleges and universities from the Chronicle of Higher Education page, sort by types of schools (very high research, business and management schools, men vs women salary etc.)



Monday, January 27, 2014

Journal ranking by Scopus

The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a "portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus database."
It offers finer levels of business and management categories than the - more well-known - Journal Citation Report by ISI Web of Knowledge.


Example for top 5 journals in
Subject Area: Business Management & Accounting
Subject Category: Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management 





SCImago. (2007). SJR — SCImago Journal & Country Rank.
Retrieved January 27, 2014, from http://www.scimagojr.com

Hat tip to The University of Manchester Library Business Research Plus blog.

Monday, June 24, 2013

Top 10 journals by impact factor - Latest JCR is released

Thomson Reuters released its latest Journal Citation Report (2012 data)
"Suppressed titles were found to have anomalous citation patterns resulting in a significant distortion of the Journal Impact Factor, so that the rank does not accurately reflect the journal’s citation performance in the literature." 

Top 10 Journals in Business, Finance by impact:
  1. Journal of Finance
  2. Journal of  Accounting & Economics
  3. Journal of Financial Economics
  4. Review of Financial Studies
  5. IMF Economic Review
  6. Accounting Review
  7. IMF Staff Papers
  8. Journal of Financial Intermediation
  9. Journal of Accounting Research 
  10. Accounting Organizations and Society 
INSEAD community: login here to start using JCR. 

Monday, June 3, 2013

THE Global Gender Index

Read the Times Higher Education article on THE Global Gender Index done in conjunction with Thomson Reuters.
Feature illustration (2 May 2013)
From THE article

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Questionable or Predatory Open Access Journals

As of January 2017, J. Beall has shut down his blog.

A few recent articles around a growing number of 'predatory' open access journals.


Thursday, February 21, 2013

From Academia to Society: the Commercialization of Research

Science article: The Many Ways of Making Academic Research Pay Off

Research universities are under growing pressure to play a more active, entrepreneurial role in commercial innovation. They increasingly regard tech transfer as a prerequisite for luring top faculty members and students, raising research funds, and potentially cashing in on lucrative inventions. But efforts to turn universities into commercial hothouses often don't succeed: Many advise schools to focus instead on "knowledge transfer"—helping society benefit from the discoveries and skills of faculty members and students without focusing just on finances. 
Science,15 Feb. 2013,vol 339, issue 6121.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

9 Facts about Top Journals in Economics

Two UC Berkeley researchers ( David CardStefano DellaVigna ) have released this NBER paper: 

"How has publishing in top economics journals changed since 1970? Using a data set that combines information on all articles published in the top-5 journals from 1970 to 2012 with their Google Scholar citations, we identify nine key trends."

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

AAUP Faculty Salary report – 2011/2012

A Very Slow Recovery: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2011–12

The AAUP released its annual review of faculty compensation, read the April 9, 2012 press release.


Average Salary for Full-Time Faculty, by Category, Affiliation, and Academic Rank, 2011-12 
Adapted from this Higher Education article: Slow Recovery

Monday, February 6, 2012

Coercive Citation in Academic Publishing

A study was released in Science magazine on February 3rd: Coercive Citation in Academic Publishing. 
The authors analyzed 6672 responses from a survey sent to researchers in economics, sociology, psychology, and multiple business disciplines (marketing, management, finance, information systems, and accounting) as well as data from 832 journals in those same disciplines 
The survey results are available in the  supporting material along with a list of journals identified as 'coercers' by survey respondents. 
  1. Journal of Business Research 
  2. Journal of Retailing 
  3. Marketing Science 
  4. Journal of Banking and Finance 
  5. Information and Management 
  6. Applied Economics 
  7. Academy of Management Journal 
  8. Group and Organization Management 
  9. Journal of Consumer Psychology 
  10. Psychology and Marketing 
Conclusion from the paper:
Overall, the empirical results from the author survey and the journal-based data tell a consistent story. Coercive self-citation exists and is more common in the business disciplines than in economics, sociology, and psychology

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Higher education presidents not strongest supporters of tenure

The survey was conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Social and Demographic Trends Project in association with the Chronicle of Higher Education in March and April this year.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Another study questions the impact of open access journals

Mr. Philip M. Davis, a researcher in the department of communication at Cornell University, publishes a study in the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology journal and concludes that "open access publishing may reach more readers than subscription access publishing, although additional readership may not translate into more citations."

Monday, February 14, 2011

Does online access boost citations?



This is the question posed by two researchers in their working paper:
Did Online Access to Journals Change the Economics Literature? (SSRN)

Mark McCabe, adjunct professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, and Christopher Snyder, economics professor at Dartmouth College question the often reported 'citation advantage' to publishing in online open-access journals.

This Steve Kolowich article explains more about the study and its potential  impact for the proponents of open-access publishing.

Friday, December 17, 2010

Tenure expiration date?

Tenure: Mend It, Don't End It  Arthur Levine describes some the advantages and - in no uncertain terms - gives his views on the weaknesses of the tenure system.

More often tenure provides a lifetime of job security not to professors whose work requires protection, but to a significant minority of "deadwood" — individuals who are unproductive, out of date, or poor in their research, teaching or institutional commitment.

His suggestion is to have a 30 year contract to limit the length of tenure and thus insure an institution's ability to maintain 'intellectual vitality'.

Friday, November 19, 2010

Tenure-track Job Satisfaction Survey


Harvard's COACHE (Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education) released the survey The Experience of Tenure Track Faculty at Research Universities in the Summer 2010.

This month they released the names of the participating institutions with the highest level of pre-tenure faculty job satisfaction: Nov 15, 2010 press release