AN EMPIRICAL-ASSESSMENT OF INFLUENCES ON POM RESEARCH

Researchers in the field of production and operations management (POM) , and those who evaluate them, need a clear, up-to-date picture of for ums available for scholarly discourse in the field. Yet the Literature contains no recent, large-scale, objective study of such publishing f orums. We present the results of such a study. We employ a citation an alysis methodology to examine citation trends for books, proceedings, and journals, and to determine a relative ranking of journals influenc ing POM research. Results of a previously reported subjective journal ranking were used to determine five base journals for our citation ana lysis. The data collection effort produced over 30,000 citations for t he years 1989-1993. The journal rankings generated by our study are co mpared with those of the earlier subjective studies in the POM field. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.