Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK, has announced the winners of its 2013 Citation of Excellence Awards. Now in their seventeenth year, these distinguished annual awards recognise the 50 most outstanding articles published by the top 300 management journals in the world. These include Harvard Business Review, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Finance, Strategic Management Journal, MIT Sloan Management Review and McKinsey Quarterly.
With 15,000 article abstracts published in these journals annually, receiving a Citation of Excellence is an extraordinary achievement and represents one of the highest accolades that an author can achieve. Authors of the winning articles receive an official certificate and logo to display on their work. The award brings with it peer recognition and, frequently, increases in research funding.
For 2013 Emerald has again been working with Professor Anne-Wil Harzing, using the Publish or Perish software program, to select the winners using a two-tier system based on citations and research impact.
The number of citations received by each paper abstracted for Emerald Management Reviews over the previous three years has been analyzed using Anne-Wil Harzing's Publish or Perish citations analysis software, and separated into the main subject areas of management, economics and business. As papers need at least three years to accumulate citation data, the 2013 Awards have been selected from papers published in 2009.
A shortlist of the most highly cited papers for each subject area was then assessed by an editorial judging panel, who chose the final top 50 best papers based on their research impact using Emerald's Impact of Research quality criteria, developed in conjunction with editors of over 250 Emerald journals.
