Mingers, J. (2008) Measuring the Research Contribution of Management Academics using the Hirsch-Index. Working paper. University of Kent Canterbury, Canterbury 10.1057/jors.2008.94.
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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: | Monograph (Working paper) |
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| Additional information: | Working Paper Number 162 |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Social Sciences > Kent Business School > Management Science |
| Depositing User: | Jennifer Knapp |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Sep 2010 15:24 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jan 2012 10:22 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/25453 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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