Abstract
How we define and measure scholarly impact is an ongoing challenge in the field of management because scholarly impact metrics are used to make decisions about hiring affects critical career outcomes (e.g., securing a tenure-track job, receiving a positive or negative promotion and tenure review decision, and attaining a chaired position). So, how we define and measure scholarly impact is not a mere “methodological curiosity.” Our study has two goals. First, we improve our conceptual understanding of scholarly impact by overcoming limitations of the use of total citations and offering a contextualized conceptualization of impact based on human capital theory called the contextualized h-index. This index incorporates both the quantity and quality facets of a researcher's impact and explicitly considers researchers’ fields. Second, to facilitate the implementation of our conceptualization, we offer a freely-available enablement called the International Management Productivity Assessment Citation Tool (IMPACT). IMPACT can be used by researchers interested in learning about their own impact as well as those evaluating other researchers’ impact (e.g., search and promotion and tenure committee members, university leaders and administrators, research award committee members). The contextualized h-index, which can be easily computed using IMPACT, allows for “apples to apples” comparison of the scholarly impact of management scholars. Finally, we discuss implications for theory and research as well as practice.
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