What, Who, or Where? Rejoinder to "Identifying Research Topic Development in Business and Management Education Research Using Legitimation Code Theory"

Autor/in	Harzing, Anne-Wil
Titel	What, Who, or Where? Rejoinder to "Identifying Research Topic Development in Business and Management Education Research Using Legitimation Code Theory"
Quelle	In: Journal of Management Education, 40 (2016) 6, S.726-731 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1052-5629
DOI	10.1177/1052562916652911
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Business Administration Education; Theories; Educational Research; Classification; Periodicals; Journal Articles; Authors; Citations (References); Regression (Statistics); Reputation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Theory; Theorie; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Periodical; Journal; Zeitschrift; Fachzeitschrift; Periodikum; Journal article; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; Author; Autor; Autorin; Citations; Zitat; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	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).] (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01