The Intellectual Influence of Entrepreneurship Journals: A Network Analysis

[Eugene Garfield]

The Intellectual Influence of Entrepreneurship Journals: A Network Analysis

Author(s): Dos Santos, BL (Dos Santos, Brian L.); Holsapple, CW (Holsapple, 
Clyde W.); Ye, Q (Ye, Qian)
Source: ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE  Volume: 35  Issue: 4  
Pages: 735-754  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2010.00392.x  Published: JUL 2011  

Abstract: As entrepreneurship emerges into an independent field of study, it is 
important for scholars and administrators to have a good understanding of the 
main channels for disseminating knowledge within this field. Here, we provide a 
new evaluation of journals devoted to entrepreneurship, plus more general 
journals that publish entrepreneurship articles. The evaluation uses a citation-
based model to rate journals. This model overcomes some limitations inherent in 
the widely known "JIFs" approach. The model is used to derive ratings that 
shows the relative influences of established journals that publish research 
dealing with the entrepreneurship domain. In addition to being a way to gauge 
the influence that a particular journal has had on this domain, a journal's rating 
can serve as an early proxy for measuring the influence of individual 
entrepreneurship articles that have yet to have an opportunity to accumulate 
citations.

Language: English
Document Type: Article
KeyWords Plus: MANAGEMENT JOURNALS; CITATION ANALYSIS; IMPACT 
FACTOR; BUSINESS; SCHOLARS; INDEX; FORUM; PUBLICATION; RELIABILITY; 
ECONOMICS

Addresses: [Dos Santos, BL; Ye, Q] Univ Louisville, Entrepreneurship Program, 
Louisville, KY 40292 USA
[Holsapple, CW] Univ Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 USA
Reprint Address: Dos Santos, BL (reprint author), Univ Louisville, 
Entrepreneurship Program, Louisville, KY 40292 USA

E-mail Address: brian at louisville.edu, cwhols at uky.edu, qian.ye at louisville.edu
IDS Number: 791VD
ISSN: 1042-2587
open access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-
6520.2010.00392.x/abstract