Recherche et Applications en Marketing at the heart of changes in the world of research

Abstract

This article presents a non-exhaustive overview of recent changes in the academic environment of the journal Recherche et Applications en Marketing. In what follows I successively discuss the changes in higher education and research, the issue of journal ranking, and the shift in open science. These three areas of change raise questions about the future of Recherche et Applications en Marketing, the answers to which lie with its entire community.

Consumer curiosity: A bibliometric and bibliographic synthesis

“…(c) The types of documents chosen are academic articles, editorials books or book chapters that address curiosity as a theoretical concept. No distinction was made based on the ranking of the journals in which the articles were published, first because we included books and book chapters that are de facto unclassified, and second because rankings are a relatively recent phenomenon, only applied since 2003 in the case of the CNRS, for example (Özçağlar-Toulouse, 2021), whereas our bibliometric analysis includes articles from 1950 to 2023. This would have distorted the historical approach to our work, particularly in terms of the number of texts published.…”