ABSTRACT

A stylised fact in bibliometric research is that in the field of management studies, half or more of the papers published are never cited. If true, this implies that efforts and resources are considerably wasted because half of the academic work is not considered worthy by the same community that developed them. We studied a sample of 2777 papers published in 20 journals and representing different levels of quality. Of these, only 191 papers, representing 6.5% of the sample, were never cited, suggesting that the aforementioned stylised fact is a myth. We identified the factors that contribute to the level of citations, including the ranking of the journal in the quality list, time since last citation, and number of authors. The implications discussed suggest a need for reflection regarding the relevance of the factors that predict future citations.

摘要

文献计量研究中的一个典型事实是，在管理研究领域，一半或更多的已发表论文从未被引用。如果属实，这意味着努力和资源被大量浪费，因为开发它们的社区认为一半的学术工作不值得。我们研究了在 20 种期刊上发表并代表不同质量水平的 2777 篇论文的样本。其中，只有 191 篇论文从未被引用，占样本的 6.5%，这表明上述程式化事实是一个神话。我们确定了影响引用水平的因素，包括期刊在质量列表中的排名、自上次引用以来的时间以及作者数量。所讨论的影响表明需要对预测未来引用的因素的相关性进行反思。