{"id":"https://openalex.org/W4361284098","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02601079231152118","title":"When an A Is NOT an A in Academic Research, or How A-Journal List Metrics Inhibit Exploratory Behaviour in Academia","display_name":"When an A Is NOT an A in Academic Research, or How A-Journal List Metrics Inhibit Exploratory Behaviour in Academia","publication_year":2023,"publication_date":"2023-03-28","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W4361284098","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02601079231152118"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1177/02601079231152118","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02601079231152118","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02601079231152118","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S132950052","display_name":"Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics","issn_l":"0260-1079","issn":["0260-1079","2321-5305"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["abdc-c","anvur-scientific","cwts-core","norway-1","poland-70","russia-white-list-2"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320017","host_organization_name":"SAGE Publishing","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320017"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["SAGE Publishing"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5023456133","display_name":"Alejandro Agafonow","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0698-1180","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0698-1180"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I91720666","display_name":"ESSCA School of Management","ror":"https://ror.org/04kkyet53","country_code":"FR","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I91720666"]}],"countries":["FR"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Alejandro Agafonow","raw_affiliation_strings":["ESSCA School of Management, 55 quai Alphonse Le Gallo, 92513 Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0698-1180","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"ESSCA School of Management, 55 quai Alphonse Le Gallo, 92513 Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I91720666"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5056194684","display_name":"Marybel P\u00e9rez","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0292-8967","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0292-8967"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I91720666","display_name":"ESSCA School of Management","ror":"https://ror.org/04kkyet53","country_code":"FR","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I91720666"]}],"countries":["FR"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Marybel Perez","raw_affiliation_strings":["ESSCA School of Management, 55 quai Alphonse Le Gallo, 92513 Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"ESSCA School of Management, 55 quai Alphonse Le Gallo, 92513 Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I91720666"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":1,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5023456133"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I91720666"],"apc_list":{"value":3000,"currency":"USD","value_usd":3000},"apc_paid":null,"fwci":1.3112,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":7,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.8100894,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":89,"max":97},"biblio":{"volume":"36","issue":"1","first_page":"105","last_page":"121"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10102","display_name":"scientometrics and bibliometrics research","score":0.8647000193595886,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1804","display_name":"Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/18","display_name":"Decision Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10102","display_name":"scientometrics and bibliometrics research","score":0.8647000193595886,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1804","display_name":"Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/18","display_name":"Decision Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14185","display_name":"Research, Science, and Academia","score":0.04899999871850014,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1802","display_name":"Information Systems and Management"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/18","display_name":"Decision Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13516","display_name":"Publishing and Scholarly Communication","score":0.031199999153614044,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1207","display_name":"History and Philosophy of Science"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/academy-of-management","display_name":"Academy of Management","score":0.7300000190734863},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/exploratory-behavior","display_name":"exploratory behavior","score":0.6700000166893005},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/ecological-bias","display_name":"ecological bias","score":0.8600000143051147},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/specific-knowledge","display_name":"specific knowledge","score":0.7419999837875366},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/academic-supervision","display_name":"academic supervision","score":0.36399999260902405}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C29122968","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1414816","display_name":"Incentive","level":2,"score":0.6643363833427429},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2778061430","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188823","display_name":"Scholarship","level":2,"score":0.6609678268432617},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C178300618","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1898509","display_name":"Extant taxon","level":2,"score":0.593460202217102},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C153083717","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6535263","display_name":"Leverage (statistics)","level":2,"score":0.5204572677612305},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C204434341","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q357789","display_name":"Adjudication","level":2,"score":0.5059751868247986},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C121955636","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4116214","display_name":"Accounting","level":1,"score":0.4567393958568573},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C162324750","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8134","display_name":"Economics","level":0,"score":0.4351854920387268},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144024400","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21201","display_name":"Sociology","level":0,"score":0.41172122955322266},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C39549134","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133080","display_name":"Public relations","level":1,"score":0.4105727970600128},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C17744445","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36442","display_name":"Political science","level":0,"score":0.2871476411819458},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.23195898532867432},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199539241","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7748","display_name":"Law","level":1,"score":0.21524587273597717},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C175444787","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39072","display_name":"Microeconomics","level":1,"score":0.14680474996566772},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C119857082","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2539","display_name":"Machine learning","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C78458016","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q840400","display_name":"Evolutionary biology","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C86803240","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q420","display_name":"Biology","level":0,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":2,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1177/02601079231152118","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02601079231152118","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02601079231152118","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S132950052","display_name":"Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics","issn_l":"0260-1079","issn":["0260-1079","2321-5305"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["abdc-c","anvur-scientific","cwts-core","norway-1","poland-70","russia-white-list-2"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320017","host_organization_name":"SAGE Publishing","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320017"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["SAGE Publishing"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics","raw_type":"journal-article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:RePEc:sae:jinter:v:36:y:2024:i:1:p:105-121","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02601079231152118","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401271","display_name":"RePEc: Research Papers in Economics","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I77793887","host_organization_name":"Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I77793887"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":45,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W240340350","https://openalex.org/W1533007440","https://openalex.org/W1573708393","https://openalex.org/W1599317090","https://openalex.org/W1628228039","https://openalex.org/W1804172620","https://openalex.org/W1966569052","https://openalex.org/W1976355216","https://openalex.org/W1977801253","https://openalex.org/W1999051528","https://openalex.org/W2059946442","https://openalex.org/W2066324139","https://openalex.org/W2076100699","https://openalex.org/W2086179965","https://openalex.org/W2087651374","https://openalex.org/W2093508609","https://openalex.org/W2119155695","https://openalex.org/W2128825842","https://openalex.org/W2131305454","https://openalex.org/W2140283616","https://openalex.org/W2164284962","https://openalex.org/W2233562021","https://openalex.org/W2335694045","https://openalex.org/W2416241581","https://openalex.org/W2515462679","https://openalex.org/W2543553137","https://openalex.org/W2791138805","https://openalex.org/W2792184724","https://openalex.org/W2887303421","https://openalex.org/W2890459920","https://openalex.org/W2913378270","https://openalex.org/W2969068369","https://openalex.org/W2996660452","https://openalex.org/W3004431039","https://openalex.org/W3122808202","https://openalex.org/W3123042927","https://openalex.org/W3124618073","https://openalex.org/W3125405027","https://openalex.org/W3128803561","https://openalex.org/W3170731549","https://openalex.org/W4211209398","https://openalex.org/W4248794920","https://openalex.org/W4255671701","https://openalex.org/W4297081765","https://openalex.org/W4388133129"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W2969916750","https://openalex.org/W7057943140","https://openalex.org/W3192801096","https://openalex.org/W2758796066","https://openalex.org/W4387511305","https://openalex.org/W4401020054","https://openalex.org/W2994083704","https://openalex.org/W2101777390","https://openalex.org/W7221020652","https://openalex.org/W7155556816"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"On":[0],"account":[1],"of":[2,8,19,46,98,108,111,113,128,155],"the":[3,6,16,20,36,42,56,64,106,109,120,126,134,166],"leverage":[4],"that":[5,63,136],"Academy":[7],"Management":[9],"(AOM)":[10],"has,":[11],"via":[12],"its":[13],"positioning":[14],"in":[15,55,150],"highest":[17],"tiers":[18],"A-journal":[21],"lists":[22],"currently":[23],"used":[24],"to":[25,34,69,171],"adjudicate":[26],"promotions":[27,86],"and":[28,38,77,87,123,131,143,169],"tenure":[29,88],"evaluations,":[30],"it":[31],"is":[32,58,67],"urgent":[33],"assess":[35],"premises":[37],"assumptions":[39],"upon":[40],"which":[41,147],"so-called":[43],"pluralist":[44,65],"model":[45,66],"scholarly":[47,99],"impact,":[48],"advocated":[49],"by":[50,102],"academics":[51,138],"with":[52,81,152],"executive":[53],"responsibilities":[54],"AOM,":[57],"built.":[59],"Our":[60],"findings":[61],"are":[62,148],"liable":[68],"three":[70],"crucial":[71],"problems:":[72],"ecological":[73],"bias,":[74],"specific":[75],"knowledge":[76],"pre-emptive":[78],"costs.":[79],"Consistent":[80],"extant":[82],"performance":[83],"evaluation":[84,97],"scholarship,":[85],"evaluations":[89],"must":[90],"build":[91],"instead":[92],"on:":[93],"(a)":[94],"a":[95,174],"qualitative":[96],"contributions":[100],"unencumbered":[101],"ordinality":[103],"assumptions;":[104],"(b)":[105],"narrowing":[107],"span":[110],"control":[112],"academics,":[114],"moving":[115],"supervisory":[116],"authority":[117],"away":[118],"from":[119,139],"line":[121],"structure":[122],"back":[124],"into":[125],"hands":[127],"true":[129],"peers;":[130],"(c)":[132],"muting":[133],"incentives":[135],"prevent":[137],"focusing":[140],"on":[141],"riskier":[142],"long-term":[144],"horizon":[145],"outputs,":[146],"pillars":[149],"agreement":[151],"known":[153],"accounts":[154],"how":[156],"exploratory":[157],"behaviour":[158],"has":[159],"been":[160],"successfully":[161],"managed":[162],"at":[163],"IBM,":[164],"Google,":[165],"SAS":[167],"Institute":[168],"Nokia,":[170],"name":[172],"but":[173],"few":[175],"cases.":[176],"JEL":[177],"Codes:":[178],"123,":[179],"O31":[180]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":1}],"updated_date":"2026-10-14T16:39:01.820549","created_date":"2023-03-31T00:00:00"}