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Turner College Economist among Top 100 BME Scholars Worldwide


A recent study appearing in Advances in Economics Education ranks Turner College economist Frank Mixon among the top 100 business and management education (BME) scholars worldwide.  The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Delaware, University of Baltimore, Florida Atlantic University, LaSalle University, Pace University, Gustavus Adolphus College and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, uses publications in the top 17 BME journals from 2010 through 2019 as the basis for ranking scholars.  This process produced a productivity score for more than 7,300 BME scholars worldwide.  At the top of the ranking is William Walstad, an economics professor affiliated with the University of Nebraska.  Two additional economics professors, Carlos Asarta of the University of Delaware and John Siegfried of Vanderbilt University, rank among the top 10.  Three management professors rank among the top 10.  These are the late J.B. Arbaugh of the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh, Gary Blau of Temple University, and Charles Forniciari of LaSalle University.  The top 10 also includes three accounting professors – Fred Phillips of the University of Saskatchewan, David Stout of Youngstown State University, and Timothy Fogarty of Case Western Reserve University.  Lastly, Seung Lee of Colorado State University is the sole marketing professor among the top 10.  Mixon ranks 83rd worldwide, just below William Becker of Indiana University and just above Arline Savage of the University of Alabama – Birmingham.  He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economics and Finance Education and Advances in Economics Education, while he previously served on the editorial board of Perspectives on Economic Education Research.  Mixon has published research in each of the journals, as well as in the Journal of Education for Business, Journal of Economic Education, International Journal of Economics Education and Journal of Teaching in International Business, all prominent BME journals.  Finally, he currently serves as Director of the Center for Economic Education in the Turner College.

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