The Effect of Age and Size on Reputation of Business Ethics Journals

2016 ◽  
Vol 57 (7) ◽  
pp. 1465-1480
Author(s):  
E. Susanna Cahn ◽  
Victor Glass
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Citation Rate ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Journal Ranking ◽  
Journal Quality ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Academic Rewards ◽  
School Ratings ◽  
Journal Visibility ◽  
Effect Of Age

Business ethics journals have appeared on a few ranked lists that are specific to this niche discipline. As with more traditional academic disciplines, these rankings are used for academic rewards such as faculty tenure and promotion, along with department and school ratings. Journal ranking has been subject to considerable criticism even as its administrative use persists. Among the criticisms are that journal quality is a poor proxy for article quality, citation rate is an imperfect reflection of article influence, and bias may be introduced into rankings by visibility characteristics such as journal age, size, circulation, and experience of the rater with a journal. This research note studies the effect of journal age and size on the rankings of business ethics journals compiled by Beets, Lewis, and Brower, by Albrecht, Thompson, Hoopes, and Rodrigo, and by Serenko and Bontis. Significant correlation was found for journal age with the administratively derived Beets et al. ranking. No significant correlation was found for size in any ranking study. Results were not significant for the Albrecht et al. and the Serenko and Bontis rankings representing the perspectives from surveys of active researchers or citation analysis. Perhaps sometimes a journal’s reputation precedes it, as perception of journal quality may be biased by journal visibility, either because it has been published and available for a number of years, or because it is well known and likely to be cited.

Which journal ranking list? A case study in business and economics

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rayana Jaafar ◽  
Vijay Pereira ◽  
Samer S. Saab ◽  
Abdul-Nasser El-Kassar
Keyword(s):  
Research Output ◽  
Citation Count ◽  
Google Scholar ◽  
Journal Ranking ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Journal Quality ◽  
Hard Time ◽  
Yearly Average ◽  
The University

PurposeWith over 3,000 academic journals in the fields of Business and Economics, most academics face a hard time selecting an adequate journal to submit their work to. In today's demanding academic environment and with the presence of different journal ranking lists (JRLs), the selection becomes more difficult when considering employment, promotion and funding. The purpose of this paper is to explore key differences among multiple JRLs pertinent to the latter common objectives. An extensive analysis is conducted to compare the content of journals in the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality list, Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) in the fields of Business and Economics. Then, a case of a university with medium research output is considered where scholarly performance evaluation is based on the ABDC Journal Quality List.Design/methodology/approachAfter ranking journals in the fields of Business and Economics based on SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator, JCR's Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and JCR's Eigenfactor (EF), a methodology is proposed to categorize journals in the three JRLs into the same categorization adopted by ABDC. The latter establishes a way to compare the four JRLs under consideration and serves as a basis to compare and analyze the content of journals in the ABDC Journal Quality list, Scopus and WoS. As a proxy impact metric, a normalized citation count is associated with each article based on Google Scholar. The publications of the considered university are then evaluated from the perspective of the four JRLs in terms of citation-based impact and quality while considering the exposure to popular world university ranking tables.FindingsFor journals classified under fourth tier by ABDC, over 53 and 59% are not indexed by Scopus and WoS, respectively. In this case study, over 42% of the publications appear in journals that are not listed in JCR despite the fact that over 94% of them are listed by the SJR list. Generally, publications that appear in journals listed by JCR achieve, on a yearly average, significantly higher citation rates when compared to those that appear in journals listed in ABDC and SJR Lists.Originality/valueA four-tier mapping is proposed for consistent comparison among JRLs. Normalized citation count associated with each article based on Google Scholar is employed for evaluation. The findings provide recommendations for scholars, administrators and global universities, including Euro-Med Universities, on which JRL can be more influential for both faculty development and positioning of the university.

scholarly journals Antler growth in male roe deer in field hunting grounds in Vojvodina: Effect of age on trophy value

2006 ◽  
pp. 109-122
Author(s):  
Dragan Gacic
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Roe Deer ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Capreolus Capreolus ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Antler Growth ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Effect Of Age ◽  
Healthy Males

Antler growth in male roe deer (Capreolus capreolus L) was studied on the representative sample consisting of 546 trophies (227 from Backa and 319 from Banat) hunted in the period 19982005. No significant differences in antler characters and trophy values were noted between Backa and Banat (except weight of antlers for 5 year old males), and the data for both regions were pooled. Antler growth is a curvilinear function of age. Mean values of length, weight and volume of antlers, and total trophy score varied significantly between the males in different age groups. The study results prove that in Vojvodina field hunting grounds, healthy males attain the culmination in antler growth and trophy value at the age of six years but already after the age of seven years, they show the first sign of old age and decline.

It’s Time for Empirical Research in Business Ethics

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larue Tone Hosmer
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Belief Structure ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

Abstract:We have a very decent belief structure or general paradigm underlying Business Ethics as a formal field of study. It has an explicit moral base. It can be stated in simple and direct terms. It has been developed over a number of recent years by a group of respected scholars from a variety of academic disciplines. It is, however, subject to multiple interpretations and open to extensive conflicts. We can easily tolerate if not benefit from the differing interpretations. We must—at some point—moderate if not resolve the debilitating conflicts. The argument I wish to make in this paper is that we have reached that point. It is time to resolve the conflicts, and the way to do so is to generate awkward, undeniable facts through basic empirical research. Those facts will then have to be incorporated into acceptable—and eventually accepted—theory.

scholarly journals Journal Scholar Metrics: building an Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences journal ranking with Google Scholar data

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Martín-Martín ◽  
Enrique Orduna-Malea ◽  
Emilio Delgado López-Cózar
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Citation Rate ◽  
Google Scholar ◽  
Journal Ranking ◽  
Master List ◽  
Subject Categories ◽  
Detail Page ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Keyword Searches

This paper describes the creation of “Journal Scholar Metrics” (JSM), a prototype web application that ranks journals in the areas of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (AH&SS) on the basis of the citations their articles have received according to Google Scholar Metrics (GSM). To identify as many AH&SS journals as possible, a master list of 66,454 journals covered by various databases was developed. All AH&SS journals in that list were searched on GSM. Additionally, a series of keyword searches were carried out to identify journals covered by GSM which weren’t present in the master list. A total of 9,188 AH&SS journals with names written in Latin characters were found in the 2015 edition of GSM (which displays data about articles published between 2010 and 2014). Besides the journal-level indicators provided by GSM (H5-index and H5-median), several additional indicators were computed (H5-citations, H5-index and H5-citations without journal self-citations, and journal self-citation rate). Journals are displayed by subject categories and by country of publication. Quartiles were computed for each category, and journals in a category were further classified either as core (high affinity to the category) or related (partial affinity). A detail page for each journal is also available, displaying journal indicators, as well as a list of other databases were the journal is indexed.

scholarly journals Relationship between Journal Impact Factor and Levels of Evidence in Anaesthesia

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 567-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. R. Bain ◽  
P. S. Myles
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Citation Rate ◽  
Journal Ranking ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Publication Type ◽  
Level Of Evidence ◽  
Level 1 ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Based Medicine

Evidence-based medicine uses a hierarchy of publication types according to their vulnerability to bias. A widely used measure of journal “quality” is its impact factor, which describes the citation rate of its publications. We investigated the relationship between impact factor for eight anaesthesia journals and publication type with respect to their level of evidence 1-4 using Spearman rank correlation (rho). There were 1418 original publications during 2001 included in the analysis. The number (%) of publication types according to evidence-based medicine level were: level 1: 6 (0.4%), level 2: 533 (38%) level 3: 329 (23%), level 4: 550 (39%). There was no correlation between journal ranking according to impact factor and publication type (rho=–0.03, P=0.25). The correlation between journal rank and the proportion of publications that were randomized trials was –0.35 (P<0.001). The correlation between journal rank and number of publications was 0.65 (P<0.001). The correlation between journal rank and number of level 1 or 2 studies was 0.58 (P<0.001). The overall level of evidence published in anaesthesia journals was high. Journal rank according to impact factor is related to the number of publications, but not the proportion of publications that are evidence-based medicine level 1 or 2.

Academic Staff Research Orientations in Uganda: A Study of Makerere University

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-84
Author(s):  
Muhamadi Kaweesi
Keyword(s):  
Academic Staff ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Makerere University ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Research Orientations ◽  
Staff Research

Academic staff research orientations have become subject to growing interest in the context of research-led universities. Whereas a number of studies have explored research orientations in higher education, research literature on the subject deals typically with the topic in the context of European and American universities. As such, studies delving in the way academics conceptualize research orientations across disciplinary fields remain few, at least in the context of Sub-Saharan African research-led Universities. This paper uses the institutional theory as the guiding theory to explore the conceptualization of academic research orientations at Makerere University. With the help of semi-structured interviews with 12 participants from 4 academic disciplines, the interpretive paradigm was preferred for this paper because the study phenomena are interpretive. As such, I chose to use qualitative methods, in which things are studied in their natural settings and to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of meanings people bring to them. The study results revealed that although academics engage in basic, policy-relevant, community-oriented, and entrepreneurial research, they as well seem to strongly understand research in terms of donor rules that exert conformance pressures and expectations. Based on the study findings, the conclusion is that research at Makerere University is largely conceptualized in terms of the donor-driven orientation. Among others, I recommend that the University should selectively collaborate with donors to ensure that locally generated research agendas are not overridden by the interests of the donors.

The Business Ethics Movement; Where are We Headed and What Can We Learn From Our Colleagues in Bioethics?

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 603-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew C. Wicks
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Ethical Thought ◽  
Considerable Potential ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Constructive Interaction

Abstract:There is a long and distinguished history of ethical thought in both business and medicine dating back to ancient times. Yet, the emergence of distinct academic disciplines [“business ethics” and “bioethics”] which are also tied to broader social movements is a very recent phenomenon. In spite of the apparent affinities that would seem to emerge from this connection, many have argued that the differences between business and medicine make any constructive interaction between business ethics and bioethics minimal. Indeed, little has been done to specifically examine the potential for collaboration and interdisciplinary research. This paper argues that there is considerable potential for constructive interaction between these two movements based on three major arguments: that the differences between medicine and business have been exaggerated, that both fields face a number of urgent problems that are common to each, and that the model of bioethics can serve as a useful guide for business ethicists.

scholarly journals Journal rankings and publication strategy

2021 ◽  
Vol 126 (4) ◽  
pp. 3227-3242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Śpiewanowski ◽  
Oleksandr Talavera
Keyword(s):  
Academic Work ◽  
Journal Ranking ◽  
Publication Strategy ◽  
Journal Quality ◽  
Journal Rankings ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ranking Systems ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Identification Strategy

AbstractWe study the impact of journal ranking systems on publication outlet choice. We investigate the publication behavior of UK-based scholars registered on IDEAS/RePEc and analyze the publication outcomes of their academic work uploaded to the repository. Our estimates suggest that authors strategically choose outlets to maximize their publication scores. Our identification strategy is based on exploiting the change in the British ABS journal ranking in 2015. Working papers written before the 2015 ABS journal ranking change are significantly less likely to be published in ex-post downgraded journals. The effect cannot be attributed to the overall change in journal quality.

scholarly journals Development of the national cultural identity of students of humanitarian specialties in the learning process

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 141-154
Author(s):  
Tatiana V. Borzova ◽  
◽  
Lyudmila A. Mosunova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
Experimental Teaching ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Study Results

Introduction. The formation and strengthening of the national cultural identity of students is an important condition for maintaining the continuity of generations, fostering personal responsibility for solving global problems of our time. The aim of the article is to present the process of teaching humanitarian students as one of the possibilities for the development of national cultural identity. Materials and methods. When interpreting the results of the experiment, characterizing the features of teaching narrative, the method of observing the process of creating narrative texts by students was used. In assessing the effectiveness of teaching the narrative, the method of qualitative (φ-Fisher's statistical test) and quantitative analysis of written works was used. A total of 167 students from the Department of Philology and Media Communications at Vyatka State University (Kirov, Russia) participated in various stages of the study. Results. Summarized the results of a theoretical and experimental study of the process of teaching students to narrative. It is substantiated that the telling of personal stories is a social practice that develops cultural identity. The psychological and pedagogical conditions, which serve as a starting point for creating their own narrative texts, reflecting the student's personal experience, have been studied. The mechanisms are revealed that contribute to the strengthening of the national code, namely: the establishment in the process of creating a narrative of close bilateral relations between the author's personal experience and its comprehension (the description of personal experience leads to the need to comprehend it, and the generation of new meanings, in turn, enriches personal experience). Fisher's angular transformation was used for statistical verification. As a result, it was revealed that after conducting special training, the number of students who do not experience difficulties in understanding the text based on the development of skills to apply methods of working with a narrative text increased (p≤ 0.01). Teaching narrative creates conditions for a deeper, more complete and detailed understanding of one's cultural identity. Conclusion. The developed scheme of experimental teaching, which describes the features of its content and structure, can be used in teaching university students. The data obtained in the course of the research can be used in the organization of psychological and pedagogical support, in the framework of individual and group work carried out within the boundaries of various academic disciplines at the university.

Understanding the Separation Thesis: Precision after the Decimal Point?: A Response to Joakim Sandberg

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Wempe
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Decimal Point ◽  
Separation Thesis

Sandberg documents with admirable precision nine rather diverging renderings of Freeman’s call for the rejection of the separation thesis (ST). A more careful consideration of the propriety of importing phrases such as “the rejection of ST” from more established academic disciplines so as to serve in the field of normative business ethics would seem to make that precision premature and maybe even superfluous. This may well be generalized to an observation concerning current working methods in normative business ethics.

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