Purpose – The purpose of this paper, using an evidence‐based management theoretical lens, is to examine research impact to provide guidance to supply chain management academics in evidencing and exploiting the outputs, outcomes and impact of their research. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose This paper aims to propose using human senses as a means of thinking about the contributions of this research. Design/methodology/approach Based upon the metaphor of human senses, the model describes different aspects of research, such as topic selection, theory and method, providing...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview and critique of altmetrics, an understudied yet increasingly important arena of study for scholars, academics, and professional researchers. Design/methodology/approach The paper is organized into six parts: the first defines...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of altmetrics in different disciplines of social science: first, by investigating the current richness and future potential of altmetrics in the selected social science disciplines and then by evaluating the validity of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to enrich the understanding of how to form a multi-item assessment and what approaches can be applied for researchers. Design/methodology/approach – This study proposes three ways to form a multi-item assessment (i.e. separate, formative and reflective...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on examining the research impact of papers written with and without funding. Specifically, the citation analysis method is used to compare the general and funded papers published in two leading international conferences, which are ACM SIGIR and...

Purpose For those who plan research funds and assess the research performance from the funds, it is necessary to overcome the limitations of the conventional classification of evaluated papers published by the research funds. Besides, they need to promote the objective, fair clustering of...

Purpose This paper aims to conduct an analysis of management research based on impact measures, with a focus on the accounting discipline and the environment theme. Using author and journal data as units of analysis, this study seek to determine the representation of environmental accounting...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to provide insights into how accounting and accountability systems can contribute to transforming metrics used thus far in research performance evaluation. New metrics are needed to increase research impact on the challenges addressed by science. In...

Purpose – This article aims to consider how academics might increase the impact of their research on practitioners. Design/methodology/approach – The author draws on UK research council guidance and his experience of researching and working with practitioners to inform the discussion....