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ATLANTA – Eighteen faculty members at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business are among the world’s top two percent of the most cited business researchers in their respective fields, according to an analysis conducted by the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford University (METRICS) and published in Elsevier Digital Commons Repository.

Using six standard citation metrics and starting from a pool of nearly eight million researchers across 174 different fields, the authors developed a composite citation index, from which they identified the top 100,000 scientists worldwide. The analysis yielded two sets of data: Career-long citations between 1996 and 2022, and single-year citations for 2022. Twelve Robinson faculty members are on both lists; three are on the career-long list only; and three are on the 2022 list only. Robinson scholars included span accounting, economics, information systems, international business, management, and marketing.

“Robinson is among the Southeast’s top-10 business schools for research productivity, and leadership by these scholars and their colleagues is a major reason we are renowned for thought leadership and for supplying the next generation of researchers for academia, think tanks, and governments around the world” said Dean Richard Phillips. “Our stature as a research institution is also a source of great pride among our students and alumni, enhancing the value of a Robinson education. Congratulations to our scholars who earned a spot on these lists.”

Learn more: October 2023 data update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"

Top Two Percent of World’s Most Cited Researchers: Career-long (1996-2022) and Single-year (2022)
Faculty Member	Specializations
Richard Baskerville Regents’ Professor Emeritus of Computer Information Systems	Information systems security, information systems design/development, Interaction of information systems and organizations
Kris Byron Meredith M. Leapley WomenLead Professor and Professor of Management	Organizational behavior, perception (and misperception) in the workplace, employee creativity, diversity at work, meta-analysis
S. Tamer Cavusgil Regents' Professor and Executive Director, Center for International Business Education & Research	International business, global strategy, emerging markets, international marketing, born-global and born-digital firms
Naveen Donthu Distinguished University Professor and Kenneth L. Bernhardt Chair, Department of Marketing	Brand equity, marketing productivity, social media and online consumer behavior, cross-cultural issues, advertising, and retailing
Glenn W. Harrison Distinguished University Professor and Director, Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk	Economics of risk, behavioral and experimental economics, welfare economics of insurance
Mark Keil Regents’ Professor and John B. Zellars Professor of Computer Information Systems	IT project management and decision making, escalation/de-escalation, IT project risks, IT project status reporting, IT implementation and use
Lars Mathiassen Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and Regents’ Professor, Center for Digital Innovation	Digital innovation, technology-enabled change, software development and management, health informatics, engaged business scholarship
Todd J. Maurer Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, Professor of Management	Organizational behavior, employee and leader development, understanding and managing how people develop full potential in careers and life
Arun Rai Regents’ Professor and Director, Center for Digital Innovation	AI, digital innovation and digital transformation, platform business models, economic, behavioral and societal impacts of digital technologies
Edward Rigdon Marketing RoundTable Professor	Quantitative research methods, structural equation modeling, uncertainty
Veda C. Storey Tull Professor of Computer Information Systems	Intelligent information systems, modeling, artificial intelligence, design science research
G. Peter Zhang Professor and Chair, Department of Management	Operations management, supply chain management, neural networks

Top Two Percent of World’s Most Cited Researchers: Career-long (1996-2022)
Faculty Member	Specializations
Balasubramanian Ramesh Distinguished University Professor and George E. Smith Eminent Scholar’s Chair, Department of Computer Information Systems	AI, requirements engineering and traceability, agile software development
Daniel Robey Professor Emeritus of Computer Information Systems	Effects of technologies on organizational structure and work practices, theoretical approaches to explaining the consequences of information technology in organizations
Upkar Varshney Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems	Mobile health, mobile computing, health IT, taxonomy and theories

Top Two Percent of World’s Most Cited Researchers: Single-year (2022)
Faculty Member	Specializations
Peter Demerjian Associate Professor and Director, School of Accountancy	Debt contracting, managerial ability, financial accounting
Pam Scholder Ellen Associate Professor Emerita of Marketing	Marketing and public policy, social responsibility, deceptive business practices, product labeling, price fairness
Likoebe Maruping Professor of Computer Information Systems and Director, Robinson Ph.D. Program	Innovation in large-scale collaboration on digital platforms across a variety of problem domains

Photo: Regents’ Professor Arun Rai is one of the 18 Robinson College faculty identified as among the top two percent of the world’s most cited business researchers.

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