Proof over promise: towards a more inclusive ranking of Dutch academics in Economics & Business
Harzing, Anne-Wil 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1509-3003 and Mijnhardt, Wilfred
(2015)
Proof over promise: towards a more inclusive ranking of Dutch academics in Economics & Business.
Scientometrics, 102
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pp. 727-749.
ISSN 0138-9130
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(doi:10.1007/s11192-014-1370-z)
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Abstract
The Dutch Economics top-40, based on publications in ISI listed journals, is - to the best of our knowledge - the oldest ranking of individual academics in Economics and is well accepted in the Dutch academic community. However, this ranking is based on publication volume, rather than on the actual impact of the publications in question. This paper therefore uses two relatively new metrics, the citations per author per year (CAY) metric and the individual annual h-index (hIa) to provide two alternative, citation-based, rankings of Dutch academics in Economics & Business. As a data source, we use Google Scholar instead of ISI to provide a more comprehensive measure of impact, including citations to and from publications in non-ISI listed journals, books, working and conference papers.
The resulting rankings are shown to be substantially different from the original ranking based on publications. Just like other research metrics, the CAY or hIa-index should never be used as the sole criterion to evaluate academics. However, we do argue that the hIa-index and the related citations per author per year metric provide an important additional perspective over and above a ranking based on publications in high impact journals alone. Citation-based rankings are also shown to inject a higher level of diversity in terms of age, gender, discipline and academic affiliation and thus appear to be more inclusive of a wider range of scholarship.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords (uncontrolled): | Rankings Citations ISI Google Scholar Economics |
| Research Areas: | A. > Business School > International Management and Innovation > International and Cross-cultural Management group |
| Item ID: | 13957 |
| Notes on copyright: | AAM may be archived on repository with 12 months embargo and set statement: The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-014-1370-z |
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| Depositing User: | Anne-Wil Harzing |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Mar 2015 15:30 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Nov 2022 23:04 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/13957 |
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