Four VCU School of Business faculty rank among World’s Top 2% Scientists
By Megan Nash
Four distinguished scholars from the VCU School of Business have been named to the “World’s Top 2% Scientists” list compiled by Stanford University and Elsevier, joining a cohort of the most influential researchers worldwide.
Professors Jose Cortina, Ph.D., Michael McDaniel, Ph.D., Allen Lee, Ph.D., and S. Douglas Pugh, Ph.D., join over 100,000 top-cited researchers globally in their respective fields of business, management and information systems.
Researchers at Stanford University collaborate with Elsevier, a major academic publisher, to compile the yearly list of the Top 2% of scientists, conducting rankings in different fields.
Dr. Cortina, professor of management and entrepreneurship, ranked 132 out of 57,191 authors in the subfield of business and management. For Cortina, the joy of his work outweighs the accolades.
“I find the questions that arise for organizations interesting. I enjoy working with good doctoral students and with my various collaborators around the world,” said Cortina. “Mostly, I like the idea of scholarly productivity. In my field, we ask organizationally relevant questions, we try to answer them, we wrestle with reviewers and editors and eventually this work makes it into print for everyone to see and, hopefully, learn from. That’s what makes our profession different from others. We all contribute, in our own small ways, to the corpus of human knowledge. As my old Professor Dan Ilgen used to say, if they stopped paying me, I’d quit tomorrow, but as jobs go, I love this one.”
Dr. McDaniel, professor emeritus of management, and Dr. Pugh, associate dean of academic affairs and research, ranked 889 and 2,080 respectively, in the same field. “I’m honored to be featured on this list,” said Pugh. “It’s rewarding to know that my research has had a meaningful impact on the work of others in the field, which not only reflects on my personal research, but also contributes positively to VCU’s reputation and academic influence.”
In information systems, Dr. Lee, professor emeritus, ranked 269 out of 18,561 authors.
To compile its yearly list, Stanford uses standardized data on citations, h-index and a range of bibliometric indicators. The resulting “c-score” combines these metrics to provide a comprehensive measure of a scientist’s impact, accounting for both the quantity and quality of their contributions. Researchers are classified into 22 scientific fields and 174 subfields.
To learn more about the methodology and view the full list, visit the study website.
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