Management Science at the University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business Is Nation's Best in Research Productivity, According to National Citation Study Released Today
PITTSBURGH—The discipline of management science in the University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business is the nations' best in terms of research productivity, according to a new citation study by Academic Assessment Services (AAS), which released results of its study today.
The same study also has ranked five other disciplines within Pitt's Katz School as being among the nation's top 30 in research productivity: information systems, seventh; economics, ninth; organizational behavior, 20th; accounting, 25th; and strategy, 29th. Among fellow business schools Pitt outranked in at least one of these five other disciplines measured in the study were Harvard's (in economics), Yale's (in information systems), Michigan's (in economics and information systems), Penn's (in information systems and organizational behavior), and Penn State's (in economics, information systems, and organizational behavior).
The rankings are the result of an AAS study of nearly 1.5 million citations in selected business disciplines to measure the research productivity of the 4,918 full-time faculty members with doctoral degrees in 51 leading business schools. This research encompassed lifetime citation counts for each faculty member. The citation analysis AAS used counts the number of times an article has been used in later academic work by other researchers. "Because it measures the impact of work on the academic community," a Sept. 29 AAS news release stated, "it is widely regarded as a valid measure of research productivity for schools, departments, and individual professors." Full results of the study will be presented at the International Business and Economic Research Conference in Las Vegas on Oct. 6; the conference paper can be seen on the AAS Web site, www.academicassessments.com.
AAS is run by Larry M. Robinson, Distinguished Visiting Associate Professor of Management in the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University, and Roy Adler, professor of marketing at Pepperdine University. AAS assists business schools in recruiting faculty members and provides information used to make promotion and tenure decisions.
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