A Comparison of Journal Submissions to the UK’s Research Assessment Exercises 1996 and 2001 for UoA 43 (Business and Management Studies)

Bence, Valerie; Oppenheim, Charles

doi:10.1016/j.emj.2004.06.009

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“…RAEs would not be able to readily cater for differences in 'recognised' and lesser 'recognised' journals. Thus RAEs may impact on research behaviour (Bence andOppenheim 2004, Easton andEaston 2003), but it is unclear how they really impact on knowledge development.…”

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“…It has been suggested, based on evaluations in the UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), that institutions have determined that they need to improve publishing productivity to improve their RAE score (Bence andOppenheim 2004, Easton andEaston 2003). National benchmarks, such as RAE exercises might result in the 'publish-orperish' mentality spreading globally, simply because there is a desire to increase research standing, which is only achieved by publishing in higher quality journals.…”

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An examination of the globalisation of authorship in publishing in 20 leading marketing journals

Polonsky

Garma

Mittelstaedt

2006

European Business Review

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the global contribution of academics to marketing literature between 1999 and 2003, based on an examination of the location of academics institution of employment, as reported in published works. The data is used to evaluate the global dispersion of publishing.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses the method of content analysis where the authorship of all articles in 20 leading marketing journals between 1999 and 2003 is examined. An empirical examination of performance was undertaken across geographic regions. There was also an examination of whether the quality of journal affected regional performance.FindingsThe research found that there is a significant “bias” of authorship within the 20 journals examined, with the majority of works published by academics at institutions in North America. There is some variation in regional performance based on the type of journal examined.Research limitations/implicationsThere was no attempt to empirically examine why differences might exist. The study only focused on a sample of 20 English language journals over five years. These journals have been included in studies that list the leading marketing journal for US and European academics.Practical implicationsThe research suggests that there may in fact be regional differences in publishing behaviour. It is unclear if these differences relate to variations in the “objectives” of institutions within each country or other factors, such as the North American publish‐or‐perish mentality. The research posits that a marketing knowledge may be unnecessarily restricted, if there is a bias against non‐North American perspectives.Originality/valueWhile there have been other works examining research performance of institutions, there has been limited examination in marketing on the nation in which authors work and none have used a broad cross‐section of journals. This work takes a global “snapshot” of national research performance within marketing.

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An examination of the globalisation of authorship in publishing in 20 leading marketing journals

Polonsky

Garma

Mittelstaedt

2006

European Business Review

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“…Fifteen journals have retained their place in Table 3 Dispersion of submitted journal outputs. Adapted from Geary et al (2004), Bence and Oppenheim (2004), RAE (2009a). The top 20 journals cover most of the spectrum of Business and Management and it is interesting that two top journals classified as social science have entered -Regional Studies and Research Policy.…”

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Estimating Business and Management journal quality from the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise in the UK

Mingers

Watson

Scaparra

2012

Information Processing & Management

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a b s t r a c tThe 2008 Research Assessment Exercise in the UK involved the peer review of over 12,500 research outputs in Business and Management, of which 92% were journal articles. Each output was graded on a 4-point scale from ''world leading'' to ''national'' with a fifth point being unclassified. These grades were accumulated for each department to provide an overall quality profile in terms of the proportions of its outputs in each category. The assessments of individual papers were not made public but the papers submitted by each department were. This data provides a major opportunity for addressing issues of concern about the evaluation of research and the effects of journal rankings, as well as the possibility of reconstructing the judgements made by the Panel about journal quality. Given the submission details and the resulting grade profile for each department, we have used linear programming to produce the best estimate of the grades awarded to papers from each journal that had more than three entries. This provides both a grade profile for each journal and a single quality estimate. The results are shown to have good validity in comparison with other journal rankings. Apart from providing a ranking of 700 journals based on the RAE results, the paper is also able to shed light on issues such as the accuracy and coverage of the ABS ranking; the degree of selectivity of submissions; the dispersion of grades for a journal; and differences between different subject areas.

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“…Although some policy initiatives, such as collaborative research programmes that seek to bring industry and academia together, have been adopted that seek to transcend this practice (an example being the Foresight Vehicle programme), the main mechanism for determining academic status and funding remains the so-called Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) [17]. The RAE measures research quality by way of publications, using the somewhat bizarre formula of ranking academic journals within subject disciplines, and then allowing each academic to submit four qualifying publications over a set time period.…”

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The role of academia in regional sustainability initiatives: Wales

Wells

Bristow

Nieuwenhuis

et al. 2009

Journal of Cleaner Production

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A Comparison of Journal Submissions to the UK’s Research Assessment Exercises 1996 and 2001 for UoA 43 (Business and Management Studies)

Cited by 9 publications

References 19 publications

An examination of the globalisation of authorship in publishing in 20 leading marketing journals

An examination of the globalisation of authorship in publishing in 20 leading marketing journals

Estimating Business and Management journal quality from the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise in the UK

The role of academia in regional sustainability initiatives: Wales

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