Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Library Can’T Buy You (All The) Data: What Data Sources Are Our Business Researchers Citing?, Edward Junhao Lim, Jiebei Luo

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This presentation is a fascinating look at how business researchers use databases and datasets. Our study examines the full text of hundreds of journal articles published between 2020 and 2023, by researchers from two business schools belonging to R1 universities in the Northeast U.S. - New York University, a top private research university, and the University of Connecticut, a public land-grant university.

Our presentation will list the most commonly cited datasets - commercial data and public, open data. We discuss the similarities and differences between the two business schools and offer insights on how dataset usage impacts research outcomes and …