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Publishing in Management Journals
Figure 1. Percentage of publishing done in each tier by U.S. schools ranked in the top 120 accompanied
by trend lines between tiers.
Figure 2. Percentage of publishing done only by U.S. schools ranked in the top 120.
The objective of Figure 2 i s to compare schools ranked in the top 120 to each ot her in order to determine
whether gradations am ong high-ranked schools matter. The top-r anked schools provide the foundation
for each pill ar in Figure 2. As rank drops, t he relative frequency of publication also decreases fro m
bottom to top. The excepti ons to this occur in Tiers 2 and 3 where the percentage increas es from 23% to
29% and 24% to 29% res pectively. H owever, these results are n ot unexpected because the trend occurs
from left to right, as well as bottom to top. In the case of both Tiers 2 and 3, fewer articles are published
among those schools ranked from 1 to 50, than are published b y the same group in Tier 1. Thoug h the
difference between Tiers 2 and 3 is slight for schools in t he top 50, the increase in l ower tier publ ishing
for the schools ranked 51 to 120 is noticeable.
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