New Guidance List for repOrting Bibliometric AnaLyses (GLOBAL); a systematic approach to reporting bibliometric analyses in scholarly literature with the ultimate goal of improving reporting quality in research assessments using bibliometrics
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Posts by Wilfred Mijnhardt
Ethical Ecosystems in Universities as Engines of Development Governance, Integrity, and Institutional Sustainability
Publish and Perish?
Hyper-Competitive Culture, Performance and Well-being in Academia.
Both men and women show negative associations between masculinity contest culture (MCC), well-being and productivity, with no advantages even for star performers.
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Inspectable AI for Science: A Research Object Approach to Generative AI Governance: A Systematic comparison between traditional Research Objects and AI Research Objects
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A graphic titled "Future Scenarios for AI in Higher Ed" featuring four outcomes: AI Superiority, where colleges are viewed as obsolete; Academic Reliability, where trust returns to human institutions due to AI failures; The Weird Future, where academics act as guides to an AI-integrated world; and AI Collapse, where the technology fails to sustain itself or is politically rejected.
Will AI push traditional universities into ‘retro’ obsolescence,
OR… will people come to see academia as more reliable and more trustworthy than AI? A few scenarios for a potential return to human-led instruction if AI would lose public trust.
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Today, I asked Claude to be my critical mentor, rather than to agree with and build on what I say. I prompted it to a) check what I could improve on my idea and how, and b) whether there's anything I missed.
I received the best feedback yet.
I'm wondering how others are optimizing this?
Co-creating the Future of Accreditations in Management Education and Research Ecosystem; Typological framework for aim of international business school accreditations.
Reflection: Is being mission-driven still truly valued in today’s polarised world?
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Narrative Impact Factor (NIF): A Multidimensional Framework for Assessing Transformative Impact in Medical Narratives in four dimensions: audience reach, transformative intensity, narrative persistence, and generative capacity.
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AI and the Tragedy of the Publication Commons in Top-Tier Academic Journals.
Solution: A two-track framework for editorial boards to maintain journal standards in an era of AI-assisted submissions, with self-selection into an AI-assisted review track.
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Why Sustainability-Related Business Education needs to integrate macro-levels of analysis into the Core Curriculum. Answer: Better prepare students for navigating and shaping a future in which economic development remains within planetary boundaries
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Research Progress on Academic Paper Citation Prediction Postprint; influencing factors and prediction methods for academic paper citation prediction, analyze existing challenges, and propose future research directions.
Developing a Research Integrity Culture Framework for Business Schools; integrating systemic-level and individual-level factors, positioning organisational culture as a moderator between the two types of factors and researchers’ conduct.
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Study on metrics and indicators for knowledge valorisation; a framework that integrates 16 indicators and 41 metrics, via EU Science & Innovation
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We should focus less on research impact and more on research value - An opportunity to re-think the value of research
Navigating Societal Impact: Strategic Management in Horizon 2020 SSH Projects; on the need for strategic planning and resource allocation to achieve sustainable societal impact.
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AI is turning research into a scientific monoculture: the AI monoculture feedback loop, topical and methodological convergence, flattening scientific imagination and crowding out the pluralism
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📚 Source: Leadership Trends and Challenges in Business School Management: a Scoping Review
Llacha-i-Roma et al. (2026), IJELM 14(1). DOI: 10.17583/ijelm.16848.
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🚀 Top 3 transformative initiatives: (1) Centre for Academic Leadership Research, (2) SDG-aligned Impact Measurement Programme, (3) Structured Leadership Development Pathway for faculty at all career stages. Act now. (7/8)
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📊 #5: Almost no longitudinal studies on what works in academic leadership. Without long-term evidence, we cannot close the loop between leadership investment & institutional outcomes. Time to build the evidence base. (6/8)
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🗺️ #4: 85% of leadership research comes from N. America & Europe. We are studying ourselves. Global blind spots = strategic vulnerability. Invest in cross-cultural research & partnerships from underrepresented regions. (5/8)
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🌍 #3: Sustainability is the strategic frame, not a CSR add-on. Responsible leadership (12.5%), social impact (6.8%), green practices (8%). Schools that embed this across research, education & governance lead on legitimacy. (4/8)
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⚠️ #2: The 'accidental leader' problem is real. Most deans & directors are appointed without leadership preparation. No pipeline = no resilience. Build deliberate development pathways now — before the next succession gap hits. (3/8)
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💡 #1: Transformational leadership (34% of literature) is not a style preference — it's a structural necessity. Schools that inspire, align & mobilise outperform those that just manage. Strategic vision + emotional intelligence = adaptive advantage. (2/8)
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🔍 New scoping review (88 studies, 1990–2024) maps leadership in business schools. 3 key clusters: academic management challenges, leadership competency, and leadership styles. 5 strategic insights every dean needs to know. 🧵 (1/8)
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Supporting Education-Focused Careers in Management Education. New reflexive framework for career development outlining practices for discerning an educator’s vocation, activities for individual self-development, and community building.
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On the Dramatic Rise of the New Society Journals in Economics. Updated rankings of economics journals based on established and new methodologies, and use these rankings to document the spectacular rise of the new society journals in economics.
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Can we predict which chemistry research projects will pay off?
A new metrics-based approach aims to analyze paper citations, patents, news articles, and more to predict areas that are primed to provide the most benefit for the research dollar. cen.acs.org/physical-che...
#chemsky 🧪
Rethinking Measurement of Research Impact in bschools: multi-horizon, multi-stakeholder, combining short-term signals, medium-term diffusion indicators, long-term outcomes across the 4 impact types (academic, teaching, managerial, and societal).
More Voices at the Top: Strategic Implications of Decreasing Research Concentration. Over 33 years, A-journal concentration dropped 29% across 7 disciplines in the UTD list. Between 1990-2022, Non-US researchers grew from 14% to 42% of articles.
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