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The influence of co-authorship on article impact in OR/MS/OM and the exchange of knowledge with Finance in the twenty-first century

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This article is motivated by two related research questions about research activity in the Operations Research/Management Science/Operations Management (OR/MS/OM) and Finance disciplines. First, we investigate the influence of co-authorship on article impact in OR/MS/OM. Second, we develop a number of citation metrics to explore the nature of scholarly exchange between top OR/MS/OM and Finance journals. We work with a large sample of articles published across 2001–2008 for twenty OR/MS/OM journals and nineteen Finance journals, with corresponding citations up to and including year 2012. Key findings from the first research question indicate a higher impact for articles with multiple authors, but with the marginal gain brought by an additional author being insignificant for articles with three or more authors. For the second research question, we find that the Finance discipline borrows less from OR/MS/OM than vice versa, which highlights the potential for wider collaboration among researchers—particularly for Finance academics in exploring how various OR/MS/OM techniques can be adopted or adapted into their research. Finally, we discover that the ranking of OR/MS/OM journals is determined more by the extent that they are cited in other disciplines, but observe a gradual rise in self-perpetuating behavior in the OR/MS/OM discipline.

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  1. As indicated on their website: http://pubsonline.informs.org/page/mnsc/editorial-statements.

  2. Avkiran (2013) finds no statistically significant difference between results based on a 4-year citation count against a 5-year citation count.

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Acknowledgments

We appreciate the constructive criticism provided by two referees, as well as the time spent by the Associate Editor Professor Ali Emrouznejad. We extend our thanks to Professors Tom Smith and Barry Oliver for reading a pre-submission copy of this article. We also wish to express our appreciation for the assistance provided by research assistant Keay-shen See, as well as the specialized guidance provided by reference librarians, Martin Cvelbar and Amberyn Thomas. We take responsibility for all remaining shortcomings of this paper.

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    Necmi Kemal Avkiran & Karen Alpert

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Avkiran, N.K., Alpert, K. The influence of co-authorship on article impact in OR/MS/OM and the exchange of knowledge with Finance in the twenty-first century. Ann Oper Res 235, 51–73 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-015-1880-y

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