Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK, has announced the winners of its 2011 Citation of Excellence Awards. Now in their fifteenth year, these annual awards recognise the 50 most outstanding articles published by the top 300 management journals in the world.
Currently celebrating the 50th anniversary of its launch, Emerald Management Reviews is a vast database of over 280,000 article abstracts from the top 300 management publications worldwide, as selected by an independent accreditation board of industry experts. Publications on the Emerald Management Reviews Coverage List include, for example, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Finance, Strategic Management Journal, MIT Sloan Management Review and McKinsey Quarterly.
Fifty articles across the whole database are singled out for special praise and awarded a Citation of Excellence. With 15,000 article abstracts added to the Emerald Management Reviews database 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 badge to display on their work. The award brings with it peer recognition and, frequently, increases in research funding.
For 2011 Emerald has adopted a new approach to selecting the winners of these awards in order to reflect the changing perceptions and assessment of quality in the publishing world. Emerald is 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 analysed 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 2011 Awards have been selected from papers published in 2007.
A shortlist of the most highly cited papers for each subject area was then sent to the Editorial Judging Panel who have chosen 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.
A full list of the 2011 winners, as well as lists of previous winners, is available at http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/reviews/awards.htm
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