This editorial is the second in our BEER Spotlight Editorial Series, where we intend to shed light on important emerging topics business that think deserve more scholarly attention, both and beyond. Specifically, aim focus hot future-oriented related ethics, environment responsibility, which have relevance importance, expect gain traction attention over coming period. We sincerely hope these ed...

With the rise of Wikipedia as a first-stop source for scientific knowledge, it is important to compare its representation of that knowledge to that of the academic literature. Here we identify the 250 most heavily used journals in each of 26 research fields (4,721 journals, 19.4M articles in total) indexed by the Scopus database, and test whether topic, academic status, and accessibility make a...

Developments in network technologies, scholarly communication, and national policy are challenging academic libraries to find new ways to engage with research communities in the economic downturn. Librarians are responding with service innovations in areas such as bibliometrics and research data management. Previous surveys have investigated research data support within North America and other ...

Abstract Research on grand challenges in the management literature is vibrant and growing. Given that term “grand challenges” was first invoked our field 10 years ago, it timely to reflect how we came this point – where might go from here. In article, explore origins of concept order trace core assumptions developments understand they shape current conversation about scholarship. We next convey...

This editorial introductory paper first discusses the reasons for the clear growth of the field of informetrics (bibliometrics, scientometrics, webometrics, ...). This has lead some journals to increase their number of volumes or the number of issues per volume. The journal Information Processing and Management decided to devote two special issues (the one here and another one to come in 2006) ...