ESI: Only 16 authors have published at least 70 papers in the field of Economics and Business over the last 10 years; Franses (EUR/ESE) included.

Essential Science Indicators has been updated as of September 1, 2012 to cover a 10-year plus 6-month period, January 1, 2002-June 30, 2012.

The field of economics & Business covers 289 journals in the essential science Indicators of Web of Science.

Erasmus University Rotterdam is included in this list with Professor Philip Hans Franses (Erasmus School of Economics) who produced 70 papers in the period 2002-2012 (according to ESI).

Personal page here: http://www.erim.eur.nl/people/philip-hans-franses/

 

	Scientist	Papers	Citations	Citations Per Paper
1	LEE, J	149	1.113	7,47
2	KIM, J	133	643	4,83
3	WRIGHT, M	127	1.762	13,87
4	KIM, S	116	391	3,37
5	ZHANG, J	115	497	4,32
6	LIST, JA	95	2.070	21,79
7	LI, Y	92	430	4,67
8	NARAYAN, PK	86	658	7,65
9	KIM, Y	85	294	3,46
10	SHOGREN, JF	84	813	9,68
11	ZHANG, Y	79	441	5,58
12	PHILLIPS, PCB	78	572	7,33
13	ROZELLE, S	77	765	9,94
14	KUMAR, V	71	1.162	16,37
15	LEE, K	71	551	7,76
16	FRANSES, PH	70	524	7,49

ESI: only 15 universities produced at least 1400 papers in the field of Economics and Business over the last 10 years; Erasmus University Rotterdam included

Essential Science Indicators has been updated as of September 1, 2012 to cover a 10-year plus 6-month period, January 1, 2002-June 30, 2012.

The field of economics & Business covers 289 journals in the essential science Indicators of Web of Science.

Only 15 universities produced at least 1400 papers in the field of Economics and Business over the last 10 years; Erasmus University Rotterdam included.

Erasmus University Rotterdam ranks 2nd outside the US next to LSE. This is a major performance for Erasmus University Rotterdam. The citations per paper of the two non-US schools still clearly lacks behind the US schools.

This is why citation impact is the next big excellence frontier for Erasmus University Rotterdam. Far the most research in economics and business is done in the Erasmus School of Economics (ese) and the Rotterdam School of Management (rsm) and their research institutes ERIM and TI.

	Institution	Papers	Citations	Citations Per Paper
1	NATL BUR ECON RES	3.672	66.785	18,19
2	HARVARD UNIV	2.882	52.511	18,22
3	UNIV PENN	1.957	34.958	17,86
4	NEW YORK UNIV	1.772	25.964	14,65
5	STANFORD UNIV	1.742	25.381	14,57
6	UNIV CALIF BERKELEY	1.706	24.367	14,28
7	COLUMBIA UNIV	1.672	22.342	13,36
8	UNIV MICHIGAN	1.595	20.741	13,00
9	MIT	1.583	32.251	20,37
10	UNIV CHICAGO	1.552	28.600	18,43
11	LONDON SCH ECON & POLIT SCI	1.542	13.808	8,95
12	CORNELL UNIV	1.530	17.388	11,36
13	UNIV ILLINOIS	1.492	16.353	10,96
14	UNIV WISCONSIN	1.486	16.459	11,08
15	ERASMUS UNIV ROTTERDAM	1.430	12.179	8,52

ESI: only 4 countries received at least 50.000 citations in the period 2002-2012 in the field of Economics & Business, Netherlands included.

Essential Science Indicators has been updated as of September 1, 2012 to cover a 10-year plus 6-month period, January 1, 2002-June 30, 2012.

The field of economics & Business covers 289 journals in the essential science Indicators of Web of Science.

Only 4 countries received on avarage at least 50.000 citations  in the period covered by the ESI. But the size of the production difefers very much. USA still by far the largets producers of papers in economics and business.

	Country	Papers	Citations	Citations Per Paper
1	USA	76.363	735.703	9,63
2	UK	21.348	158.187	7,41
3	CANADA	10.231	72.803	7,12
4	NETHERLANDS	7.338	53.213	7,25
5	GERMANY	11.140	52.663	4,73

ESI: only 20 ISI journals in Economics & Business receive on average at least 20 citations per article over the last ten years

Essential Science Indicators has been updated as of September 1, 2012 to cover a 10-year plus 6-month period, January 1, 2002-June 30, 2012.

The field of economics & Business covers 289 journals in the essential science Indicators of Web of Science. Only about 20 journals received on avarage at least 20 citations per paper in the period covered by the ESI.

Here is the list:

Journal	Papers	Citations	Citations Per Paper
QUART J ECON	397	16894	42,55
ACAD MANAGE REV	377	15731	41,73
ADMIN SCI QUART	191	7854	41,12
J ECON LIT	200	8111	40,55
MIS QUART	380	14346	37,75
ACAD MANAGE J	631	23325	36,97
J FINAN	873	28216	32,32
J MARKETING	469	14346	30,59
J POLIT ECON	378	11526	30,49
STRATEG MANAGE J	717	20049	27,96
J ECON PERSPECT	457	11199	24,51
ORGAN SCI	613	14996	24,46
ECONOMETRICA	628	15223	24,24
J MANAGE	488	11413	23,39
J ECON GROWTH	132	3038	23,02
J FINAN ECON	932	20463	21,96
REV ACC STUD	57	1142	20,04
J ACCOUNT ECON	351	7028	20,02
J OPER MANAG	465	9304	20,01

Reasons for citation; why would you cite an author or the work?

What are the reasons and motivations for citing the work of others or yourself?  Are all citations equal? I want to list as many reasons as I can find.

Following Lena Lindgren I will distinguish 3 kinds of reasons:  Publication dependent, author dependent or other reasons. I will use Lena’s set as base set but I will add some more reasons as I collect them along the way.

Publication-dependent reasons

1. Identify related body of work
2. earlier work on which current work builds
3. Best/most relevant work on the subject
4. Substantiate claims/establish precedence
5. No other sources of data
6. Using/giving credit to ideas, concepts, theories, methodology, and empirical findings by others.
7. Identifying original publications in which an idea or concept was discussed, ‘classics’.
8. Mentions of other works (‘see also’, ‘see for example’) without further reference.
9. The cited publication is an overview in the field.
10. The content of the cited publication is of a high quality.
11. Criticizing the work of others.
12. Providing background reading, to give ‘completeness’.
13. Substantiating, legitimating own statements or assumptions.
14. Alerting to forthcoming work.
15. The cited publication is frequently cited by other authors in the field.
16. The cited publication has been seriously criticized by other authors in the field.
17. The cited publication is a recent one on a ‘hot’ topic.
18. Critically analyze/correct earlier work
19. Of equally valid sources, chose this one
20. Ease of access to the cited work

Author-dependent reasons

1. Establish writer’s authority in the field
2. Paying homage to pioneers/giving credit for related work.
3. Ceremonial citation, the author of the cited publication is regarded as ‘authoritative’.
4. The author of the cited publication is a man.
5. The cited publication is written by a large number of co-authors.
6. Maintaining of professional and/or social connections.

Other reasons

1. Demonstrating familiarity with important literature.
2. Demonstrating familiarity with prestigious journals.
3. Demonstrate scholarship (e.g. excessive self-citation).
4. Appealing to editors, readers or reviewers in which the citing publication is published.
5. The cited publication is easily available for examination.
6. Political pressure
7. Raise citation count

Related Articles

• To be the best, cite the best (nature.com)

A new measure of esteem: prestige or how often is a researcher cited by highly cited researchers?

Ding and Cronin make a nice distinction between popularity and prestige of a researcher; popularity of a researcher is measured by the number of times he is cited
by all papers in a dataset; the prestige of a researcher by the number of times he is cited by highly cited papers in the same set.  A scholar may be highly cited but not highly regarded: popularity
and prestige are not identical measures of esteem. The authors focus primarily on authors rather than journals.

Popularity vs. Prestige
Popularity and prestige exist in the following possible relations:
High popularity-high prestige, High popularity-low prestige, Low popularity-high prestige and Low popularity-ow prestige

 

Source: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1012/1012.4871.pdf

Popular and/or Prestigious? Measures of Scholarly Esteem
Ying Ding, Blaise Cronin
School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Abstract
Citation analysis does not generally take the quality of citations into account: all citations are weighted equally irrespective of source. However, a scholar may be highly cited but not highly regarded: popularity and prestige are not identical measures of esteem. In this study we define popularity as the number of times an author is cited and prestige as the number of times an author is cited by highly cited papers. Information Retrieval (IR) is the test field. We compare the 40 leading researchers in terms of their popularity and prestige over time. Some authors are ranked high on prestige but not on popularity, while others are ranked high on popularity but not on prestige. We also relate measures of popularity and prestige to date of Ph.D. award, number of key publications, organizational affiliation, receipt of prizes/honors, and gender.