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Online from: 1988
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Citations of Excellence winners

Every year, Emerald Management Reviews rewards authors of exceptional papers covered in its extensive database with a Citation of Excellence Award.

Emerald Management Reviews is a vast database of 300,000+ article abstracts from the top 300 management publications worldwide, as selected by an independent accreditation board of industry experts. Publications on the prestigious Emerald Management Reviews Coverage List include, for example, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Finance, and Strategic Management Journal.

While all publications on the list are already guaranteed to be of the highest quality, having been through a rigorous accreditation process, just 50 articles across the whole database are singled out for special praise and awarded a Citation of Excellence.

With 15,000 article abstracts added to the Emerald Management Reviews database annually, receiving a Citation of Excellence is an extraordinary achievement and represents one of the highest accolades that an author can achieve. Winners receive an official certificate and badge to display on their work. Past winners have also found the award useful for research funding.

For 2013, Emerald has been working with Professor Anne-Wil Harzing, using the Publish or Perish software program, to select the winners using a two-tier system based on citations and research impact, as follows:

• The number of citations received by each paper abstracted for Emerald Management Reviews over the previous three years has been analysed using Anne-Wil Harzing ‘s Publish or Perish citations analysis software, and separated into the main subject areas within management, economics and business. As papers need at least three years to accumulate citation data, the 2013 Awards have been selected from papers published in 2008.
• A shortlist of the most highly cited papers for each subject area then goes to an editorial judging panel, who choose the final 50 best papers based on research impact using Emerald's Impact of Research quality criteria, developed in conjunction with editors of over 250 Emerald journals.

Citations of Excellence winners: 2013