Visualizing a discipline: an author co-citation analysis of information science, 1972–1995
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Combining mapping and citation analysis for evaluative bibliometric purposes: a bibliometric study
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation (Information Science & Knowledge Management)
Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation (Information Science & Knowledge Management)
The Structure and Dynamics of Networks: (Princeton Studies in Complexity)
The Structure and Dynamics of Networks: (Princeton Studies in Complexity)
Classification and powerlaws: The logarithmic transformation: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Visualization of the citation impact environments of scientific journals: An online mapping exercise
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet
Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet
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Although there is considerable consensus that Finance, Management and Marketing are `science', some debate remains with regard to whether these three areas comprise autonomous, organized and settled scientific fields of research. In this paper we aim to explore this issue by analyzing the occurrence of citations in the top-ranked journals in the areas of Finance, Management, and Marketing. We put forward a modified version of the model of science as a network, proposed by Klamer and Van Dalen (J Econ Methodol 9(2):289---315, 2002), and conclude that Finance is a `Relatively autonomous, organized and settled field of research', whereas Management and (to a larger extent) Marketing are relatively non-autonomous and hybrid fields of research'. Complementary analysis based on sub-discipline rankings using the recursive methodology of Liebowitz and Palmer (J Econ Lit 22:77---88, 1984) confirms the results. In conclusions we briefly discuss the pertinence of Whitley's (The intellectual and social organization of the sciences, 1984) theory for explaining cultural differences across these sub-disciplines based on its dimensions of scholarly practices, `mutual dependency' and `task uncertainty'.