Google Scholar and the Turner College

With next week's departure of Deborah Kidder to Kutztown University, where she will serve as dean of the business school, Turner Business decided to re-examine the Google Scholar citations that are attributed to the research by the Turner College's remaining business faculty. The Turner College currently will have 27 total tenured and tenure-track faculty following Kidder's departure, including three administrators. Hence, the corps of instruction count will stand at 24. The Turner College's remaining corps of instruction is associated with 21,080, for an average of 878.3 Google Scholar citations per faculty. When the administrators are included, the total rises to 21,571 Google Scholar citations while the average falls to 798.9 Google Scholar citations per faculty. When the data are broken down by departmental unit, the 10 members of the corps of instruction in accounting and finance are responsible for 7,786 Google Scholar citations, for an average of 778.6 Google Scholar citations per faculty. When the two Turner College administrators from that unit are included, the total rises to 8,083 Google Scholar citations while the average falls to 673.6 Google Scholar citations per faculty. Lastly, the 14 members of the corps of instruction from management and marketing are associated with 13,294 Google Scholar citations, for an average of 949.6 Google Scholar citations per faculty. When the Turner College administrator from that unit is included, the total rises to 13,488 Google Scholar citations, for an average of 899.2 Google Scholar citations per faculty. Most of these numbers are down substantially from our most recent report.