Beyond Publication Counts – The Impact of Citations and Combined Metrics on the Performance Measurement of German Business Researchers

Waldkirch, Rüdiger W.; Meyer, Matthias; Zaggl, Michael A.

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“…5 For example, in their empirical analysis of German economics researchers, Schläpfer and Schneider (2010) conclude that there is only a weak correlation between citations and publications so that if citations are not taken into consideration as a performance indicator, important information on the character and quality of research performance of German economists will be lost. Furthermore, Waldkirch et al (2013) show that there is a difference between those rankings based on numbers of publications and those based on citation metrics. With respect to the h-index, on the one hand, and the number of publications, on the other hand, van Raan (2006) notes a rather weak linear relation for Dutch researchers in the field of chemistry, whereas Costas and Bordons (2007) demonstrate a stronger linear relationship with respect to Spanish researchers in the natural sciences.…”

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“…With respect to German business administration researchers in the subdisciplines of finance and marketing, Breuer (2009) shows high rank correlations between rankings based on citations and on h-indexes. In their study of business researchers in the research fields of accounting and marketing, Waldkirch et al (2013) also detect high rank correlations between evaluations on the basis of the h-index and on the basis of citations as well as between rankings on the basis of the h-index and the g-index.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…WoS is regarded in the scientometric community as a particularly popular and reliable data source due to its long-standing presence on the market (Ball and Tunger 2006a). Additionally, Waldkirch et al (2013) establish a fairly robust correlation between citation metrics for researchers from the fields of accounting and marketing with respect to the specific choice of a literature database.…”

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“…Dilger (2010) as well as Dilger and Müller (2012), on the other hand, generate personal rankings of German business administration researchers on the basis of citations. In contrast to the above-mentioned studies, which emphasize the determination, identification, and analysis of scientists' research performance, Waldkirch et al (2013) investigate the impact of citation metrics on the performance of German business administration researchers. They focus on individual researchers in the subfields of accounting and marketing.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For this reason, the results of the above-mentioned studies are not necessarily transferable to German BuSs. Only the analyses by Waldkirch et al (2013) provide a first starting point. However, Waldkirch et al focus on the level of individual researchers, particularly on those publishing in the fields of accounting and marketing.…”

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Universities do not tend to systematically record their own benefits, leaving it to independent institutions to summarize and publish in the form of ratings and rankings information that such institutions have acquired by themselves. In Germany, for the academic discipline of Business Administration, the Centre for Higher Education (CHE) is the major publisher of such rankings. The challenges in the context of performance measurement and evaluation on the one hand as well as the publication of achieved performance (in terms of benchmarking) on the other hand show considerable analogies to those of managerial cost and activity accounting as well as external financial reporting. Since an analysis of CHE's potential compliance with the relevant accounting principles has not yet been undertaken, the objective of this paper is to systematically and critically analyze from an accounting perspective the method by which CHE actually evaluates research performance of business schools in Germany. Accordingly, we will demonstrate that standard accounting principles, such as completeness - which is an integral requirement of faithful representation - or consistency, are not continuously satisfied. Moreover, classifications of research cost objects, that are made within the meaning of cost and activity accounting, are not unequivocal and can, under certain circumstances, result in creating misguided incentives for the participating business schools.

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Beyond Publication Counts – The Impact of Citations and Combined Metrics on the Performance Measurement of German Business Researchers

Cited by 2 publications

References 63 publications

Citation metrics as an additional indicator for evaluating research performance? An analysis of their correlations and validity

Citation metrics as an additional indicator for evaluating research performance? An analysis of their correlations and validity

The Measurement, Evaluation, and Publication of Performance in Higher Eduaction: An Analayis of the Che Research Ranking of Business Schools in Germany from an Accounting Perspective

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