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What Are The Correlates Of Interdisciplinary Research Impact? The Case Of Corporate Governance Research, William Q. Judge, Thomas Weber, Maureen I. Muller-Kahle

Management Faculty Publications

We explore the concept of interdisciplinary research impact and better understand what factors might be associated with it. Using the field of corporate governance research as a case study and linking our research impact concept to a novel measure of scholarly citation rates, we seek to understand why some corporate governance scholars are cited more than others. We first developed a comprehensive ranking of the top-100 scholars cited for their research in corporate governance and then compared that "high-impact" group with scholars who had published governance research that was not yet cited. We hypothesized that indicators from the social network …