Perception, prestige and PageRank

The Perception of Organizational Prestige and Employee Engagement

North American perception of the prestige of biomechanics serials.

Biomechanics is a discipline with many applications and sub-areas so scholars often publish their work in journals in different subject categories used in the ISI Journal Citation Reports (JCR). It is not known whether the quality/prestige of journals in the discipline of biomechanics matches the ISI Impact Factor (IF) ratings reported in JCR. A survey of the membership of the American Society ...

Prestige and Collaboration Patterns

How do concerns about prestige affect patterns of collaboration among competing firms? Firms often need to collaborate with some competitors for a variety of reasons including: sharing risks; combining complementary resources; limiting competition and developing standards. Which competitors a firm chooses as collaboration partners also influences how potential clients and other stakeholders vie...

Publishing, Objectivity, and Prestige

Disseminating scientific knowledge and teaching responsible conduct to people involved in research and scientific activities is a prerequisite for the efficiency and integrity of scientific information (16). However, one important challenge scientists face today is conveying scientific information to the public clearly and directly (3). Another challenge is related to peer-review biases (11, 12...

Prestige Versus

How closely does stature (reputation) correspond to objective measures of actual performance? In the following article, reprinted from Social Science Quarterly, 1 James A. Christenson, Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, and Lee Sigelman, now dean. Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, compare impact-factor data from the Social Science...