Is It a Home Run? Measuring Relative Citation Rates in Accounting Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia M. Dechow ◽  
Richard G. Sloan ◽  
Jean (Jieyin) Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Citation Index ◽  
Citation Impact ◽  
Social Science Citation Index ◽  
Performance Evaluations ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Total Citation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Citation Metrics ◽  
Published Research

SYNOPSIS We propose a new set of citation metrics for evaluating the relative impact of scholarly research in accounting. Our metrics are based on current practices in bibliometrics and normalize citations by both field (accounting) and year of publication. We show that our normalized citation metrics dominate other commonly used metrics in accounting when predicting the long-term citation impact of recently published research. We conduct our analysis using citations from the Social Science Citation Index for the top six general interest accounting journals. More generally, our metrics can be readily constructed using any citation database and for any subfield of accounting. The metrics simply require the total citation counts for a benchmark set of papers published in the same calendar year. The use of these metrics should enable more informed performance evaluations of junior accounting researchers.

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design as a Journal: The Interdisciplinarity of its Environment and the Citation Impact

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 826-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loet Leydesdorff
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Citation Impact ◽  
Social Science Citation Index ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Matrix

The citation impact of Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design can be visualized using its citation relations with journals in its environment as the links of a network. The size of the nodes is varied in correspondence to the relative citation impact in this environment. Additionally, one can correct for the effect of within-journal ‘self’-citations. The network can be partitioned and clustered using algorithms from social network analysis. After transposing the matrix in terms of rows and columns, the citing patterns can be mapped analogously. Citing patterns reflect the activity of the community of authors who publish in the journal, while being cited indicates reception. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design is cited across the interface between the social sciences and the natural sciences, but its authors cite almost exclusively from the domain of the Social Science Citation Index.

Three Decades of Psychological Research in the Journal Cognitive Psychology (1979–1999)

2003 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 972-982 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Mestre ◽  
F. Tortosa ◽  
P. Samper ◽  
M. J. Nácher
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Quantitative Measure ◽  
Social Science Citation Index ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Productive Authors

We examined the journal Cognitive Psychology, as representative of the evolution of cognitive psychology during the last three decades (1979–1999). Analysis of changes in the impact factor defined according to the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) is an indication of the ranking of this journal both in the general classification of archival research journals as well as in relation to other periodicals in the area of cognitive psychology. This single quantitative measure of articles published in Cognitive Psychology indicates a change in the topics of interest. An analysis of the research topics and identification of the most productive authors identifies important indicators of the psychological topics of primary interest during this time.

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Study of the Resource-based View (RBV) in International Business Research Using Barney (1991) as a Key Marker

Innovar ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (61) ◽  
pp. 131-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Portugal Ferreira ◽  
Fernando Ribeiro Serra ◽  
Benny Kramer Costa ◽  
Martinho Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Social Science Citation Index ◽  
Business Research ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Themes ◽  
The Social ◽  
International Business Research

In this study we examine how the RBV has been included in IB research over the past twenty years using Barney's (1991) article as a key marker. Bibliometric techniques analyzing citations, co-citations and research themes delved into, were applied to the articles published between 1991 and 2010 in five leading IB journals. Data was collected from the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). We conclude that the RBV has been having an important impact on most of IB research themes and has been driving a large portion of current thought on the multinational corporations' strategies, location choices and internationalization. Although, we also find areas that have been explored to much lesser extent. In addition to identify the stock of accumulated knowledge, this study contributes to highlight areas for future inquiry on how IB studies may further benefit from an RBV-oriented perspective.

scholarly journals Public Services between the Citizen’s Need and the Possibilities of the Administration

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-34
Author(s):  
Adriana Grigorescu
Keyword(s):  
Public Services ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Financial Strength ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Services Of General Interest

Abstract This paper aims at the balance between the citizen and the public authorities with public services as an interface. Public services place themselves at the crossroads of many elements such as: needs of the citizen, social need, public will, public resources, private availability, and civic sense. Without claiming to have identified all factors that converge to defining / structuring the public services (PS) / services of general interest (SGI), the paper tried to highlight some of the most important. The social need is covered at the macro level and it represents what society - as a whole - needs. Citizens’ needs are more specific, individualized and custom-designed, rundown by gender, age, education, social condition, financial strength, religion, living environment etc. The public will is an expression of what the Administration encompasses in mid- and long-term national strategies and addresses in detail the PS / SGI in sectorial policies where responsibility is assumed. Public resources include in our assessment all resources at the disposal of the Administration at some point. Private availability can be expressed through various forms such as public-private partnerships, development of complementary private sponsorships, donations etc. A balanced public service can also benefit of citizens’ civic sense. Even if they are completely satisfied with the services at hand they understand that it would be without sense to unnecessary ask for them just only because it’s free.

To what extent do articles published in other than “top journals” have impact on marketing?

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 271-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamal Haddad ◽  
Gangaram Singh ◽  
Don Sciglimpaglia ◽  
Hung Chan
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Social Science Citation Index ◽  
The Other ◽  
Journal Ranking ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Misclassification Errors ◽  
Need To Evaluate ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the relevance and limitations of using a top journal approach as a proxy for an article's value or contribution. Design/methodology/approach – The authors determined the citations for all articles published in 2001 and 2003 in 26 key marketing journals included in the Social Science Citation Index and 50 journals included in Google Scholar to rate the impact of a specific article. They also assessed these articles to examine the source of citations, as a way of measuring impact. Findings – This study indicates that articles published in the journals most often considered the top three or four in marketing are cited by others significantly more often than the ones published in the other journals. However, the authors found substantial misclassification errors from using publications in these “top” journals to infer a top article status across three different criteria for defining a top article. Originality/value – These findings strongly support the need to evaluate each article on its own merits, rather than abdicating this responsibility by using journal ranking as a proxy for an article's value or contribution.

Methodological and Theoretical Orientation and the Long-Term Disciplinary Impact of 54 Eminent Psychologists

2000 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Keith Simonton
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Theoretical Orientation ◽  
General Factor ◽  
J Curve ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Static Versus Dynamic ◽  
Social Sciences Citation Index

The long-term influence of 54 highly eminent psychologists was hypothesized to be a function of their methodological and theoretical orientation. Individual differences in impact were gauged via the Social Sciences Citation Index for 1976–1980 and 1986–1990. Orientation was assessed along 6 dimensions: objectivistic versus subjectivistic, quantitative versus qualitative, elementaristic versus holistic, impersonal versus personal, static versus dynamic, and exogenist versus endogenist ( R. W. Coan, 1979 ). Correlation and regression analyses revealed that long-term influence could be predicted by both method and theory measures. Especially significant was the curvilinear backward-J curve between total citations and a general factor defined by all 6 bipolar dimensions. The most influential psychologists tend to take extreme positions on the controversies that have characterized the history of psychology.

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