Moore School of Business - Management Professors Among Most Influential Authors

A study in the Journal of Management finds that six management professors and two alumni of the Moore School are among the most influential authors in the field of management.

Six current faculty members are listed in the study titled “Scholarly Influence in the Field of Management: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Determinants of University and Author Impact in the Management Literature in the Past Quarter Century” (Journal of Management, August 2008). They are: Dr. Richard B. Robinson, Jr., Dr. M. Audrey Korsgaard, Dr. Robert E. Ployhart, Dr. Elizabeth C. Ravlin, Dr. William R. Sandberg, and Dr. David M. Schweiger.


Robinson	Korsgaard	Ployhart	Ravlin	Sandberg	Schweiger

Two faculty members – Robinson and Schweiger – made the Top 150 List of Most-Cited Authors, and, in fact, were among the top 1/2 of 1 percent.

The alumni are: Dr. Peter Davis (Ph.D. ’88), currently chair and professor of management at Belk College of Business, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, and Dr. William Turnley (MBA ’91, Ph.D. ’96), Kansas State University College of Business Administration.

The study looked at a core set of 30 journals and who published in them during a 25-year period from 1981 to 2004. Based on the data used, the University of South Carolina ranked 30th among the 100 most-cited universities in the field of management. The most influential authors and universities were identified based on an analysis of citation information from articles, notes, and reviews published. Citation data were obtained from the Institute for Scientific Information’s (ISI) Web of Knowledge relational database, the major source of citation information in the world.

Gail Crouch
August 2008

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Management Professors Among Most Influential Authors