28/01/2025
Abstract
We conduct a descriptive analysis of performance of disciplines, journals, authors, and universities based on number of publications in leading fifty business and economics journals that are represented in the Financial Times list (FT 50) during 2008-2022 using data from the Web of Science. We document four sets of findings. First, our analysis suggests that Operations Management and Multidisciplinary areas experienced significant publication growth from 2008 to 2022 to increase their publication and citation share in FT 50 journals even after accounting for the relative handicap in terms of number of journals in the FT 50 list. Second, the strong performance of Operations Management discipline is driven by significant growth in publications in Production and Operations Management and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. Notably, Journal of Business Ethics alone published close to 10% of the papers published in the FT 50 list, and more than the number of papers published by five disciplines: Accounting, Marketing, Multidisciplinary, Operations Management, and Information Systems. Third, we find that the most prolific authors in Management and Organizations, Operations Management, and Marketing had a higher number of publications during the 2008-2022 period than the most prolific authors of other disciplines. Finally, our analyses of top 100 worldwide universities publishing in the FT 50 list suggest that the list of universities is dominated mostly by North American countries (USA and Canada), European countries (Netherlands, Denmark, UK, Italy, France, Spain), China (including Hong Kong), Australia, and Singapore. We discuss implications of our findings for ranking organizations, editors, academic associations, individual scientists, administrators, and policymakers.
About Speaker
Sunil Mithas, Ph.D. is a World Class Scholar and professor, and serves as a director (Rankings and Reputation) at the Muma College of Business. He is a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the UNSW Business School, Sydney. Previously, Sunil was the Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Information Systems at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, where he served as Associate Chair, and co-directed two Centers. He has held visiting positions at the University of California Davis, UNSW Sydney, University of Mannheim, and HKUST Hong Kong.
Sunil is recognized among the foremost information systems scholars in the world. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Information Systems Society of INFORMS, an AIS Fellow, a Marketing Science Institute Young Scholar, and a Vaishwik Bhartiya Vaigyanik (VAIBHAV) Fellow. He is the author of two books, and his research published in top journals and conferences have won multiple best-paper awards, and featured in practice-oriented publications such as the MIT Sloan Management Review, Management Business Review, and Bloomberg. Mithas serves as a Department Editor of Production and Operations Management, and is on Editorial Board at Journal of Management Information Systems. Earlier he served on the Editorial Boards of MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research.
He has consulted and conducted research with organizations that include A. T. Kearney, EY, Johnson & Johnson, the Social Security Administration, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the Tata Group. He is a frequent keynote speaker in corporate and academic settings. Mithas had a decade-long successful career at the Tata group in engineering, marketing, and general management positions before he dedicated himself to an academic career. He earned his Ph.D. from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and an engineering degree from IIT, Roorkee.
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Mithas, Sunil and Silveira, Alysson and Zavadskiy, Gleb, What Do We Know about the Science of Science in Operations and Business Management? Insights from the Top 50 Journals, 2008-2022 (May 16, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/
