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``Circle the Wagons and Defend the Faith''

Slicing and Dicing the Data

Louisiana State University, abede{at}lsu.edu

David D. Van Fleet

Arizona State University

Hugh H. Hyman, III

Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals

Commentators expressed contrasting views on the authors' examination of scientific achievement and editorial board membership in the management discipline. In response, the authors address key points with which they disagree and hold fast to their admonitory conclusions, neither compromising nor retreating from the recounting of base facts. If the authors' conclusions have prompted a measure of cognitive dissonance, they hope that any associated discomfort will lead to action on the part of all of the discipline's journals and their sponsoring organizations.

Key Words: philosophy of science • scientific ethos • infometrics • bibliometrics • scientometrics

This version was published on April 1, 2009

Organizational Research Methods, Vol. 12, No. 2, 276-295 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1094428108319845


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