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  • 1.  follow-up on journals and impact

    Posted 12-19-2009 08:49
    I should have mentioned Publish or Perish (freeware). My colleague John Cotton prefers it to using Google Scholar directly; I prefer the reverse. In either case you have to go through and see which citations are (1) really to the item in question and (2) worth noting (e.g., not a copy or, say, a course syllabus). Harzing herself has an article with Nancy Adler in the first 2009 issue of the Academy of Management Learning and Education, which also has a number of other articles on journal ranking.
    One other thing I should have mentioned is that early stage scholars won't have all that many citations as it takes a while to build up a reputation - except for stars. As for stars, I am very aware that I'm in the middle trenches, getting a fair number of citations; the stars are on the hills getting huge numbers. Some say that citations are bimodal, but from what I see there are three broad categories: scholars who get citations in the thousands, scholars who get them in the hundreds to low thousands, and those who get very few.
    Cheers,
    Alex Stewart

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  • 2.  follow-up on journals and impact

    Posted 12-20-2009 02:15
    Quote Ian MacMillan from Penn when I asked him about evaluating research: "When you evaluate research you cannot just look at citations; you must look at the overall contribution the research makes to the field." You have to sell your research to your colleagues.

    For the new people in the field, we fought hard for many years to legitimize entrepreneurship research at the expense of several of our colleagues being rejected tenure. I did a study on the quality of ENT journals a few years ago and found that most schools (except for Ivy league) consider ET&P & JBV solid A hits. Some top research schools even count JSBM as an A hit. SBE is usually considered a B hit, but a few schools had this as an A as well. The quality of ET&P has increased significantly over the years. Hope this helps all of the non tenured people out there.

    Happy Holidays,

    Dr. Todd A. Finkle, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor of Management
    Fellow, Fitzgerald Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies                
    Intellectual Property Center Fellow
    The University of Akron
    College of Business Administration
    259 South Broadway Street
    Akron, OH 44325-4801
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    --- On Sat, 12/19/09, Stewart, Alex <alex.stewart@MARQUETTE.EDU> wrote:

    From: Stewart, Alex <alex.stewart@MARQUETTE.EDU>
    Subject: [ENTREP] follow-up on journals and impact
    To: ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Date: Saturday, December 19, 2009, 8:48 AM

    I should have mentioned Publish or Perish (freeware).  My colleague John Cotton prefers it to using Google Scholar directly; I prefer the reverse.   In either case you have to go through and see which citations are (1) really to the item in question and (2) worth noting (e.g., not a copy or, say, a course syllabus).   Harzing herself has an article with Nancy Adler in the first 2009 issue of the Academy of Management Learning and Education, which also has a number of other articles on journal ranking.
    One other thing I should have mentioned is that early stage scholars won't have all that many citations as it takes a while to build up a reputation - except for stars.  As for stars, I am very aware that I'm in the middle trenches, getting a fair number of citations; the stars are on the hills getting huge numbers.  Some say that citations are bimodal, but from what I see there are three broad categories: scholars who get citations in the thousands, scholars who get them in the hundreds to low thousands, and those who get very few.
    Cheers,
    Alex Stewart

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  • 3.  follow-up on journals and impact

    Posted 12-21-2009 03:40

    Don't forget usage too – most publishers now monitor usage/downloads of all articles and are happy to share this information with their authors.

     

    Thanks,

     

    Kim

    From: Entrepreneurship Division Listserv [mailto:ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Todd Finkle
    Sent: 20 December 2009 07:15
    To: ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: Re: [ENTREP] follow-up on journals and impact

     

    Quote Ian MacMillan from Penn when I asked him about evaluating research: "When you evaluate research you cannot just look at citations; you must look at the overall contribution the research makes to the field." You have to sell your research to your colleagues.

    For the new people in the field, we fought hard for many years to legitimize entrepreneurship research at the expense of several of our colleagues being rejected tenure. I did a study on the quality of ENT journals a few years ago and found that most schools (except for Ivy league) consider ET&P & JBV solid A hits. Some top research schools even count JSBM as an A hit. SBE is usually considered a B hit, but a few schools had this as an A as well. The quality of ET&P has increased significantly over the years. Hope this helps all of the non tenured people out there.

    Happy Holidays,

    Dr. Todd A. Finkle, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor of Management
    Fellow, Fitzgerald Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies                
    <st1:placename w:st="on">Intellectual</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Property</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype> Fellow
    The University of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Akron</st1:place></st1:city>
    College of Business Administration
    <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on">259 South Broadway Street</st1:street>
    <st1:city w:st="on">Akron</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OH</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">44325-4801</st1:postalcode></st1:address>

    W: 330-972-8479



    --- On Sat, 12/19/09, Stewart, Alex <alex.stewart@MARQUETTE.EDU> wrote:


    From: Stewart, Alex <alex.stewart@MARQUETTE.EDU>
    Subject: [ENTREP] follow-up on journals and impact
    To: ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Date: Saturday, December 19, 2009, 8:48 AM

    I should have mentioned Publish or Perish (freeware).  My colleague John Cotton prefers it to using Google Scholar directly; I prefer the reverse.   In either case you have to go through and see which citations are (1) really to the item in question and (2) worth noting (e.g., not a copy or, say, a course syllabus).   Harzing herself has an article with Nancy Adler in the first 2009 issue of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management Learning</st1:placename></st1:place> and Education, which also has a number of other articles on journal ranking.
    One other thing I should have mentioned is that early stage scholars won't have all that many citations as it takes a while to build up a reputation - except for stars.  As for stars, I am very aware that I'm in the middle trenches, getting a fair number of citations; the stars are on the hills getting huge numbers.  Some say that citations are bimodal, but from what I see there are three broad categories: scholars who get citations in the thousands, scholars who get them in the hundreds to low thousands, and those who get very few.
    Cheers,
    Alex Stewart

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