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A question: what is the time span over which that those 600 articles have been read?! from first year to the dissertation defense, or just before comps? I know there might be differences among different programs, but I mean an "on-average" estimate.

Perhaps, but as long as professors are considered, they do look as much lovely as other people; have you ever had a look at some professors' personal profiles online? And they are the yesterday's PhDs!

where have u answered it?

Thanks stagename, a great help for a prospective researcher! Btw, I forgot to name JSTOR, how is this one? You know, for example, sciencedirect has some features that I have rarely seen on the other databases(I have never used Publish or Perish before). For example if you search "social capital" as a keyword, it gives you this page. On the left side of the page you see some very useful information, the name of journals and related papers of each, classification of topics, classification by date, and so on. It shows, in this case, that how the number of published papers with "social capital" as a keywords, has increased from 1997 to 2011. Does Pulish and Perlish offer some features and even better ones?

Dear all, I have a question in mind: suppose you want to examine the trends of publications on a specific topic, e.g. social capital or innovation or organizational culture, etc. You decide for example to search for publications that have used "social capital' as one of their keywords. My question is that which databases are the best to do this search in, or perhaps one might need to look up several databases. I know for example sciencedirect, emerald, wileyinterscience, scopus. What do you suggest? Any other ones? Thanks,

I think your question is equivalent to ask whether the Texas @ Dallas Business School Rankings is fair. I think as any other rankings system it has some positive and negative points. For negative side: - it has not considered the size of a faculty or publication per capita, rather it counts all publications of a business school members and this means that the larger a business school in term of number of faculty members, the higher the number of published articles in those selected journals, generally. - I think if the number of journals for every field was more than what is now, for example double or triple, this ranking would be more reliable.

Hey stagename ! May I ask what is your field? It is interesting for me to know what is the field that its PhD 'studnets' publish in top journals. Furthermore, could you please elaborate on the bolded part: ' Most of the student speakers we had coming over here were (way too much) theory oriented and ...', Does this mean that in Europe, in general, the business studies in PhD level is more academic while in US (and perhaps Canada, or actually in Northern America ) business studies in PhD level is more practice oriented; while the former is more about the development of abstract (or pure) theories , the latter is more concerned with real practices in business section.

Don't forget Tilburg University, CentER (Faculty of Economics and Management) Research Master and PhD programs. It has even been established before Erasmus Rotterdam and is at least as known as is Erasmus in US and around the globe. Specially in Behavioral Marketing, as I know, it is very strong. I think LBS, INSEAD, Tilburg (CentER), Erasmus are the top 4 of Europe.

Well, generally I think I am not a hard-working person. Despite this, I think I can study math for hours but reading papers in Organization Studies, Strategy or OB mostly seems very boring. I need something that challenges my mind at each moment, and reading such those papers for hours per day is not such a task. Can you name some of those programs? I have always dreamed of such a thing that can read papers to me!

Asking the purpose is a good question; hers is my story: I studied an engineering major in undergraduate level. Then in graduate level I pursued MBA. After graduation started a Research Master program in Organization & Strategy in a top 50 research institute in Europe. We had to read about 12-15 papers, book chapters (around 400-500) per week for two courses. But at the same time we had to criticize some papers, write comments and critiques. Other than these two courses, we had two other methodological courses: Statistics and Econometrics. While my performance was quite very good in the latter courses, the former courses were my nightmare! I could not read that much in English. In my mother tounge I may read as much as 30 pages per hour (net time), but in English and specially the English that is used in academic papers (full of GRE words, complex, ...) I can read perhaps at most 10 pages per hour on average (more or less depending on the content). I quit that program and this was a very very disappointing experience for me :dejected:. I was shocked .... After this big failure, sometimes I think to myself that perhaps a more quantitative field, e.g. Finance, OR, Management Science, might be the specializations in which I can perform very well, because of my engineering background and my strength in Math. But sometimes I think perhaps regardless of which specialization to follow perhaps I am not a suitable person for a PhD. Sometimes I think perhaps Economics is also another possible option, at least the language of Economics is math! So you see I am totally confused and really do not know what to do :sorrow: What you think? Do you think that switching to Finance, OR, Economics might make a difference?

Well, I have a question in mind and that is whether the amount of the material to be read is equal in all Management PhD specializations, e.g. Marketing, Finance, OR, Organization, Strategy, OB, and so on. For example I know that in some Strategy and Organization programs, or some HRM programs, stuendts have to read about 16 papers per week (8 /per course in a week). I have heard that in some programs or some courses, PhD studnets have to read 20 or 30 papers per week. Of course 'reading' here does not only mean merely reading but also writing critiques, summaries, extensions, or other such assignments. But I think that for example Finance PhD stunets read less such papers and mostly study classical materials, Micro and Macro economics, Asset Pricing, Investment Analysis, and such well-structured courses. Do finance people read lesser than Organization or OB or Strategy studnets?

That's right. While most (i.e. more than 95%) of the econ programs around the globe do not accept the GMAT in lieu of GRE, certainly the percentage of the B-Schools which accept both GMAT and GRE for the Finance PhD is quite very very higher (perhaps atleast 90%). So the GRE seems the right suggestion for your case.

Admission to a PhD program, especially in good universities, heavily depends on this part of an applicant's profile. Perhaps a great number of the applicants for a typical top 50 university have high GPA's from outstanding universities around the globe, high GMAT/GRE scores and so on. So in addition to Recoms and SoP, perhpa research part of an applicant's profile, are the most important ad decisive factors for being accepted to a PhD program in top universities (top 50 around the globe). What and how do you think about this? How has been the recent trends in comparison to the past ones? Are publications nowadays a common feature of all successful PhD applicants? What other forms of research expirience might compensate for the lack of published works in an applicants profile? Let's talk more about this:proud:

cuz I've already taken the former!

Any other ones, please?! :upset: