Table 1.
The list of analyzed journals in 12 business disciplines.
Table 2.
Sources of Altmetric attention score and weight of each.
Fig 1.
Note: The above figure lists the step-by-step process we adopted.
Fig 2.
Correlation coefficients between two-year (five-year) IF and two-year (five-year) attention score, by the 12 disciplines.
Note: The gray bar indicates the correlation coefficient between the two-year IF and the two-year attention score. The black bar reports the coefficient between the five-year values. The insight resides in comparing the difference between the length of the gray bar and the length of the black bar. The higher the difference, the more the time the discipline takes to translate academic impact to practice impact.
Table 3.
Correlation coefficients between two-year (five-year) IF and two-year (five-year) attention score, by the 12 disciplines.
Table 4.
Correlation coefficients between two-year (five-year) IF and two-year (five-year) attention score, by each of 56 journals.
Fig 3.
A. Accounting Journals: Correlation Coefficients between Two-Year (Five-Year) IF and Two-Year (Five-Year) Attention Score. Note: Comparing a journal’s two-year correlation coefficient with the five-year value indicates whether the journal needs more time to translate its academic impact to practice impact. For example, Review of Accounting Studies has a low coefficient of two-year correlation (.18) but a high coefficient of five-year correlation (.91), suggesting that the journal tales longer for translation. Conversely, Accounting Review does not need much time. B. Business Ethics Journal: Correlation Coefficients between Two-Year (Five-Year) IF and Two-Year (Five-Year) Attention Score. Note: The above figure suggests that Journal of Business Ethics requires more time to translate it academic impact to practice impact. C. Economics Journals: Correlation Coefficients between Two-Year (Five-Year) IF and Two-Year (Five-Year) Attention Score. Note: The above figure suggests that RAND Journal of Economics lags in translating academic impact to practice impact, whereas American Economic Review aces the translation. D. Entrepreneurship Journals: Correlation Coefficients between Two-Year (Five-Year) IF and Two-Year (Five-Year) Attention Score. Note: Each of Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice rates very high on two-year and five-year correlation coefficients. However, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal scores low. E. Finance Journals: Correlation Coefficients between Two-Year (Five-Year) IF and Two-Year (Five-Year) Attention Score. Note: Journal of Finance Economics is a positive outlier among the four finance journals with a very high two-year and five-year correlation coefficients. Journal of Finance has low coefficients, while Review of Financial Economics lies in between these extremes. F. General Management Journals: Correlation Coefficients between Two-Year (Five-Year) IF and Two-Year (Five-Year) Attention Score. Note: General management journals exhibit high variation in their two-year and five-year correlation coefficients. For example, Organization Science has very low coefficients, whereas Research Policy and Organization Studies have the highest. Overall, most journals hover in the middle values of about [13]. G: IS Journals: Correlation Coefficients between Two-Year (Five-Year) IF and Two-Year (Five-Year) Attention Score. Note: All three IS journals have weak coefficients. Further, these journals need time to translate academic impact to practice impact. H: IB Journal: Correlation Coefficients between Two-Year (Five-Year) IF and Two-Year (Five-Year) Attention Score. Note: JIBS has a high coefficient for both two-year and five-year periods, indicating that the journal does well to timely translate its academic impact to practice impact. I: Marketing Journals: Correlation Coefficients between Two-Year (Five-Year) IF and Two-Year (Five-Year) Attention Score. Note: Journal of Marketing Research outperforms all other marketing journals. Further, it enjoys the same coefficient for two-year and five-year periods. Marketing Letters sits at the bottom with very weak coefficients. Lastly, Marketing Science requires more time to translate its impact. J: Operations Journals: Correlation Coefficients between Two-Year (Five-Year) IF and Two-Year (Five-Year) Attention Score. Note: OM journals need time to translate their impact. Further, all four journals achieve high coefficients in five-year period. K: OB Journals: Correlation Coefficients between Two-Year (Five-Year) IF and Two-Year (Five-Year) Attention Score. Note: Human Resource Management is an outlier with very low value of two-year correlation coefficient. All other three journals perform well on both two-year and five-year coefficients. L: Statistics Journal: Correlation Coefficients between Two-Year (Five-Year) IF and Two-Year (Five-Year) Attention Score. Note: JASA has moderate but consistent coefficients for two-year and five-year periods.