Adapting the great quote from George Box about models, all rankings are flawed unless you rank highly in them or get attention from producing them!
I am interested in which scholars, institutions, countries, and journals have been most productive and influential in certain academic fields. Recently, the organization Research.com posted its 3rd ranking of the best scholars in several fields, including Business and Management. It ranks the top 1,845 scholars (some are retired, and some are deceased) out of a total of 166,880 scholars in the field of business and management.
A scholar’s ranking position in Research.com is based on their D-index
(Discipline H-index), a score that focuses solely on the scholar’s publications
and citation data (collected on 21-11-2023) for the discipline. This means that
if you are a business and management scholar who occasionally publishes in
engineering, healthcare, or education journals, the ranking does not
consider these publications.
Reviewing the rankings, I was interested in how productive
(number of publications) and influential (number of citations) scholars were.
Focusing on business and management scholars who had published 500 or more
papers in their careers (an arbitrary threshold), I used the ranking data to
see who had published the most, who had the most citations, and who had the
most citations per paper. This 500+ Club is made up of 32 scholars from the
ranked 1,845 scholars. See Table 1.
When it comes to total citations and impact per publication, Philip Kotler of Northwestern University is way ahead.
I don’t make the 500+ Club and probably never will, but I
was pleased with my impact per publication score.
Table 1. The 500+ Club Ranking of Business and Management Scholars
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