Mingers, J. (2009) Measuring the Research Contribution of Management Academics using the Hirsch-Index. Journal of the Operational Research Society , 60 (9). pp. 1143-1153. ISSN 0160-5682 .
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Abstract
There is an increasing emphasis on the use of metrics for assessing the research contribution of academics, departments, journals or conferences. Contribution has two dimensions: quantity which can be measured by number/size of the outputs, and quality which is most easily measured by the number of citations. Recently, Hirsch proposed a new metric which is simple, combines both quality and quantity in one number, and is robust to measurement problems. This paper applies the h-index to three groups of management academics – BAM Fellows, INFORMS Fellows, and members of COPIOR – in order to evaluate the extent to which the h-index would serve as a reliable measure of the contribution of researchers in the management field.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled keywords: | citations; Hirsch; h-index; metrics; research productivity; RAE |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HA Statistics > HA33 Management Science |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Social Sciences > Kent Business School |
| Depositing User: | John Mingers |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2009 20:58 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Sep 2011 04:17 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/22292 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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