Institutional Contributions to Scholarly Journals of Business

It has been argued that the best available criterion for evaluation of university and institutional is the relative quantity of published research and scholarship contributed by the individual or the institution.' Whether or not one views this argument as valid, it cannot be denied that this criterion is widely applied both explicitly and implicitly. During the last decade much effort has been expended in compiling and evaluating the significance of institutional contributions of scholarly papers for several disciplines. For example, in economics, D. R. Fusfeld examined the affiliations of the contributors of papers to the program of the American Economic Association meetings during the 1950-54 period and found that a disproportionately large number of papers came from the Big 15 schools.2 A follow-up study by F. R. Cleary and D. J. Edwards, which reviewed the institutional affiliation of contributors to the American Economic Review for the 1950s, concluded that there was less concentration of authors in a small number of institutions in the case of regular issues of the American Economic Review than in the case of the Proceedings.3 This study was later expanded by P. A. Yotopoulos, who included the contributions to the Journal of Political Economy and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.4 A fourth study by John J. Siegfried updated the tabulations for the 1960-69 period, added tabulations for two more journals, and explored the relationship between the of faculty and of publishing in professional journals. Siegfried's study resulted in the finding that there is a significant relationship between institutional quality as rated by peers and the proportion of available pages contributed to leading scholarly journals. The interest with which the aforementioned studies have been received, the implications of their related conclusions, and the continued emphasis of a publish-or-perish policy by many universities