Academic success traditionally has been assessed by publications in highly ranked journals. Other measures of research quality such as citations are now available, and these measures offer a wider perspective of academic contribution beyond simple article counting. Citations now are an important...

When manufacturers introduce a new product to the market, downstream retail partners are faced with inherent trade-offs. Retail sales personnel has to support the new product's introduction with substantial sales efforts, but also sell the existing products in stock, before storage and...