Anne-Wil Harzing

TL;DR: A longitudinal comparison of eight data points between 2013 and 2015 shows a consistent and reasonably stable quarterly growth for both publications and citations across the three databases, suggesting that all three databases provide sufficient stability of coverage to be used for more detailed cross-disciplinary comparisons.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the problematic nature of academic ranking systems and question if such assessments are drawing scholarship away from its fundamental purpose, and call for an immediate examination of existing ranking systems, not only as a legitimate scholarly question vis-a-vis performance, but also because the very health and vibrancy of the field are at stake.

TL;DR: This paper found that there are major differences in response styles between countries that both confirm and extend earlier research, such as power distance, collectivism, uncertainty avoidance and extraversion, and English-language questionnaires elicit a higher level of middle responses, while questionnaires in a respondent's native languag.

TL;DR: It is argued that these metrics provide additional advantages over the JIF and that the free availability of GS allows for a democratization of citation analysis as it provides every academic access to citation data regardless of their institution's financial means.

TL;DR: The MNC's international strategy is subsequently linked to the management of the two different entry modes by showing that differences in strategy are reflected in different headquarters—subsidiary relationships for acquisitions and greenfields.