Counting Articles
Consider a publication in Academy of Management Journal that was coauthored by two University of Florida professors, one Texas A&M University professor, and one University of Georgia professor. That article would count as “one” for Florida, “one” for Texas A&M, and “one” for Georgia, even though two authors were from Florida. As a second (and very rare) scenario, consider a publication authored by a student at Texas A&M and a professor at Florida. Because this is a ranking of faculty productivity, that article would only be counted for Florida. Note that only peer-reviewed articles are counted—the counts exclude editorials, calls for papers, introductions to special or thematic issues, erratums, and corrigendums.
Affiliations
Articles are coded based on the affiliation that appears on the title page of the article. If an author moves to a new school, the article is still credited based on affiliation in the published article. If more than one affiliation appears for a given author, every attempt is made to attribute that article to the primary affiliation for a given author.
Management Departments
In doing the counts, care is taken to ensure that professors are Management faculty, based on affiliation information provided in the article or in online directories. Publications for faculty in Industrial/Organizational Psychology are not counted, nor are publications for faculty in Labor and Industrial Relations. Similarly, publications from other business school faculty—such as Marketing, Accounting, or MIS—are not counted. The majority of the faculty included in the rankings are in standalone Management departments. In cases where faculty reside in separate Organizational Behavior, Strategic Management, International Management, and/or Entrepreneurship groups, the various groups are aggregated as if they are one department.
Calendar Year
The rankings reflect publications in a given calendar year. Thus, the 2023 rankings reflect publications that came out “in print” from January to December of 2023. The date that the article was originally accepted is irrelevant, as is the date that an article was published “online first.”
The rankings display the 150-most productive groups for a given window (though the exact number varies due to ties), with the stipulation that the group must have published at least two articles in the window. The raw data are kept for more than just the top 150, however, to ensure that the 5-year totals are accurate. Five-year rankings include schools with at least ten articles in the 5-year window (e.g., an average of two per year).
Faculty Size (only for US schools)
Information on faculty size is taken from online directories at the end of each calendar year. The most recent faculty counts for each school are shown here and this file includes links to the director listings used for each school. Size totals represent tenure-track faculty only. If departments include multiple disciplines (e.g., operations, supply chain, information systems), every effort is made to only count those who are management scholars. The totals exclude instructors, lecturers, clinical faculty, part-time faculty, fixed-term faculty, professors of instruction, teaching professors, service professors, research professors, research associates, educators, professors of practice, executive professors, executives in residence, and practitioner faculty. The totals also exclude emeritus faculty, courtesy appointments, visiting professors, and professors in residence. Joint appointments are included in the totals. Associate deans, deans, and other administrators are included if tenure-track and if shown in the main faculty directory for a given unit.
The 5-year ranking for publications per faculty uses the sum of yearly “publications per faculty” for each of the prior 5-years. Because we only count faculty sizes for schools with 2 or more publications in a given year, the 5-year “pubs/faculty” ranking only includes schools with 10 or more publications over the 5-year period (e.g., an average of 2 per year). In the rare cases where a school had less than two publications in an earlier year but still achieved a total of 10 for the 5-year period, we impute their faculty size for missing years using the nearest years recorded.
Region Designations (only US Schools)
Region designations are based on the Bureau of Economic Analysis regions. The bureau’s “Great Lakes” term is referred to as “Midwest” in the rankings.
