Judge, TA; Cable, DM; Colbert, AE; Rynes, SL What causes a management article to be cited - Article, author, or journal? ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 50 (3): 491-506 JUN 2007

[Eugene Garfield]

E-mail Address: tjudge at ufl.edu  

Author(s): Judge, TA (Judge, Timothy A.); Cable, DM (Cable, Daniel M.); 
Colbert, AE (Colbert, Amy E.); Rynes, SL (Rynes, Sara L.) 

Title: What causes a management article to be cited - Article, author, or 
journal? 

Source: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 50 (3): 491-506 JUN 2007 

Language: English 

Document Type: Editorial Material 

Keywords Plus: IMPACT FACTOR; APPLIED-PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL-SCIENCE; 
DETERMINANTS; RECOGNITION; JUDGMENTS; RANKINGS; NETWORK; UNIVERSITIES; 
PRODUCTIVITY 

Conclusion: Despite these limitations, we believe that our
study offers a single, relatively comprehensive examination
of piecemeal results found in past research.
Our findings shed new and mixed light on
the citation process. Although our study reveals
that citations are not allocated on a purely universalistic
basis, it nevertheless suggests that universalistic
characteristics dominate particularistic
ones. As such, our results support the idea that
individuals can positively influence their prospects
of producing influential work by focusing on
the basics of the scientific method, from start (idea
generation) to finish (presentation of ideas). These
are factors that other researchers (as well as the
present study) have found to influence the likelihood
of placing work in high-quality journals—
which, our results suggest, further increases the
likelihood of strong article impact.
Overall, then, we view our results as suggesting
that the knowledge dissemination process is working
largely as it should with respect to journal
placement. Although the process does not operate
without error, universalistic characteristics do appear
to meaningfully outweigh particularistic ones.
On the other hand, the average article clearly gets a
citation boost from appearing in a highly cited journal—
a boost that may have far less to do with the
quality of the article itself than with the signaling
power of the journal and the time limitations of
busy scholars. In turn, this boost causes a host of
subsidiary inefficiencies, such as excessive submissions
to a small set of journals, wasted time for
authors who go through many rounds of revisions
(often at many journals), and difficulties for highquality
niche journals and journals that for one
reason or another do not make particular lists that
matter to academic departments and business periodicals.
These are systemic effects that reach far
beyond the confines of the journal review process.

Addresses: Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA; Univ N Carolina, 
Chapel Hill, NC 27515 USA; Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA 

Reprint Address: Judge, TA, Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA. 

E-mail Address: tjudge at ufl.edu 

Cited Reference Count: 63 

Times Cited: 12 

Publisher: ACAD MANAGEMENT 

Publisher Address: PACE UNIV, PO BOX 3020, 235 ELM RD, BRIARCLIFF MANOR, 
NY 10510-8020 USA 

ISSN: 0001-4273 

29-char Source Abbrev.: ACAD MANAGE J 

ISO Source Abbrev.: Acad. Manage. J. 

Source Item Page Count: 16 

Subject Category: Business; Management 

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