Playing the Citations Game: From Publish or Perish to be Cited or Sidelined

Australasian Marketing Journal - Tập 22 - Trang 280-287 - 2014
Grahame R. Dowling1
1Discipline of Marketing, University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, NSW 2007, Austrilia

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The availability of automated citation counting software has made it easy for citation metrics to be used in the performance appraisal of many academics. This is most evident in decisions about promotion, research funding and salary supplementation. At present, many marketing academics seem to have only a passing interest in how their citations may impact on these decisions. Notwithstanding their limitations, citations can play an important role in building a case for the career advancement of most academics. The questions addressed in this paper are twofold. First, is seeking more citations a somewhat distracting game to be played across one's career or do they provide a reasonably valid measure of research recognition? Second, given that their use is becoming more widespread, how can a scholar's citation profile be linked to their research strategy so that it enhances rather than obscures their contribution? In the language of branding the task is how best to use citations as a point-of-proof of research contribution. Data from the Australian marketing community is used to illustrate how this can be achieved.

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Australasian Marketing Journal

Tập 22

280-287

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