Authors: Nabil Amara Réjean Landry Norrin Halilem
Publish Date: 2015/02/15
Volume: 103, Issue: 2, Pages: 489-530
Abstract
Studies on publication and citation scores tend to focus mostly on frequently published and cited scholars This paper contributes to advancing knowledge by simultaneously looking into both high and low performing scholars including nonpublishing scholars and by focusing on factors increasing or impeding scholarly performances To this end two complementary sources of data are used 1 data from ISI web of science on publications and citations of scholars from 35 Canadian business schools and and 2 survey data on factors explaining the productivity and impact performances of these scholars The analysis of the data reveals five scholar profiles i nonpublishing scholars ii low performing scholars iii frequently publishing scholars iv frequently cited scholars and v highimpact frequently publishing scholars Statistical modeling is then used to look into factors that explain why scholars are any of these performance configuration rather another Two major results emerge first scholars in the low performing profile differ from those in the nonpublishing profile only by being in top tier universities and by having high levels of funding from research councils Second scholars who publish frequently and are frequently cited differ from those in the low performing profile in many ways they are full professors they dedicate more time to their research activities they receive all their research funding from research councils and finally they are located in top tier universities The last part of the paper discusses policy implications for the development of research skills by university managers willing to increase the publication and citation scores of their faculty members
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