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Australian Research Output in Economics & Business: High Volume, Low Impact?

Anne-Wil Harzing

Abstract

This paper investigates publication patterns of Australian academics in Economics & Business. I show that this discipline follows the general Australian trend of declining impact, measured as citations per paper, from the mid-1990s. However, the gap in Australia.s ranking of publication quantity (number of papers) and publication quality (impact) is much wider in Economics & Business than in other disciplines. The discipline combines the highest ranking in quantity with the lowest ranking in quality. Seven possible explanations for this pattern are discussed.

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Keywords

RESEARCH OUTPUT; ACADEMIC RESEARCH; AUSTRALIAN ACADEMICS; PUBLICATION PATTERNS; PUBLICATION QUALITY.

Contact Details
Anne-Wil Harzing
The University of Melbourne
Parkville Campus, VIC, 3010.
E-mail: harzing@unimelb.edu.au

The author would like to thank the following people for their thoughtful suggestions: Glyn Davis, Carol Kulik, Christina Cregan and Tatiana Zalan (all University of Melbourne), Arjen van Witteloostuijn (University of Groningen), Phyllis Tharenou (University of South Australia) and Marcel Wissenburg (Radboud University Nijmegen). Thanks are also due to the Economics Area Editor of AJM, Chongwoo Choe, for assigning a very knowledgeable reviewer to this paper. This anonymous reviewer's suggestions have helped me to clarify several aspects of the paper.