Newsletter n. 17/2017, April - Editorial

Ad maiora!

by Alberto Pastore

Dear Members,

I really have the feeling that the teachers of our scientific disciplinary sector are doing an excellent job!

The recent closure of the 2010-2014 VQR evaluations highlighted a very positive performance. The overall opinion places the P / 08 sector in first place in the business-economic area (together with P-10), with an average score in the 2011-14 period of 0.43, compared to 0.23 for the 2007 period -10. Compared to the previous VQR we have almost doubled the average score. As many as 42% of the products presented achieved a high or excellent rating (0.7 or 1.0).

In the following table, we can highlight the excellent positioning also with respect to other sectors of the company area.

Other interesting indications concern the growing trend of evaluations in the period considered (the average score of the sector P / 08 constantly improves, reaching 0.52 relative to 2014) and the significant increase in articles in English, which rises from 46% 63%.

It should also be noted that, in the VQR, articles in journals are the products presented most frequently and which have obtained significantly higher evaluations.

In this regard, we believe the improvement in the positioning obtained by the main national magazines, including Sinergie - Italian Journal of Management and Mercati e Competitività, to bibliometric, a “fair” score (0.4 points) was assigned, compared to the “limited” score (0.0 points) obtained in the VQR 2004-2010. On this front, we can and must do even better and the key seems to be joining Scopus, an objective that our best magazines will hopefully achieve very soon. At the moment some other magazines have been recognized a lower ranking (0.1 points) but certainly that can be improved, following a well-traced path.

It is important that all of us continue to invest in our journals, making them grow and projecting them towards an international audience, as they can constitute the vehicle of the specificities of our knowledge as well as an effective channel to ensure wide dissemination of the research conducted by our scientific community. , and inherent to the original aspects and the excellence of the Italian economic-entrepreneurial system.

Regardless of the VQR, we can confidently say that the quality (and quantity) of research carried out in our disciplines has improved significantly in recent years.

Even the monographs, which are valued in the ASN headquarters, are increasingly published in referenced and accredited series, and today they appear more rigorous, original, relevant. 6 series have been referenced, 4 of which are already accredited by Aidea, directly attributable to our sector.

The professors of Economics and Business Management, then, present the highest scientific productivity in the field of business disciplines, as sanctioned by the system of defining the ASN thresholds, based on the detection of the average number of publications (through the percentile system). within the individual sectors.

With regard to international projection, it is increasingly consistent, as can be seen from the profile of publications, the presence of colleagues on the editorial boards of international journals, participation in research groups and international conferences.

On the teaching front, as we well know, the degree courses in management reach a number of students far higher than that of the alternative paths of the economic-business area, they are often the most appreciated by students and, in many locations, they are also offered in English, meeting a consistent international demand.

In institutions, academic and non-academic, our colleagues are increasingly assuming positions of great responsibility.

All this increases the awareness of our qualities, encourages us to do better and better in the future, allows us to affirm our value in the various contexts of reference.

A value that, it must always be remembered, is such only when it is recognized and transferred to our Stakeholders, the Company and the Economy.

As SIMA we try to do our part.

Congratulations P/08, ad maiora!