A Look at the i50 Google Scholar Index Values for Turner College Business Faculty

A series of posts here at Turner Business celebrates various Google Scholar citation milestones reached by business faculty. As indicated in the most recent of these, highlighting marketing professor Ed O'Donnell reaching the 500 total Google Scholar citations milestone, various metrics provided by Google Scholar, such as the i10-index and the h-index, are reported. For this post, Turner Business created a metric, the i50-index, which is the number of a scholar's publications that have each garnered at least 50 Google Scholar citations. The i50-index for each Turner College business faculty is provided, using the ranges shown, in the table below.

As indicated in the table above, 17 Turner College business faculty have thus far produced an i50-index value of at least one, with six scoring an i50-index above five. In the top category, with an i50-index above 15, are management professor Deborah Kidder and economics professor Frank Mixon. Turner College management professor Johnny Ho is the lone faculty in the 11 through 15 i50-index range. Following these are three management professors, Phil Bryant, Kirk Heriot and Robin Snipes, each in the i50-index range from six through 10. Lastly, a sizable cluster appears in the 1 through 5 range, including accounting professor Charles Boster, economics professors Ben Blair and Tesa Leonce, finance professor Gisung Moon, management professors John Finley, Kevin Hurt, Laurence Marsh and Neal Thomson, MIS professor Jennifer Pitts, and marketing professors Sungwoo Jung and O'Donnell.