Murray State University Outstanding Research Award

Murray State University Outstanding Research Award

Selection Guidelines for the A.J. Bauernfeind College of Business (AJB-COB) Award Recipient

The Murray State University Outstanding Research Award is sponsored by the MSU Research Policy Committee. The award is presented to a faculty member in each college and school (including University Libraries) recognizing outstanding research, scholarly or creative activity during the previous calendar year. (Thus, the award presented in April, 2017 would be for research outcomes in calendar year2016). The Outstanding Research Awards provide faculty members recognition for research in like manner as the Regents Teaching Awards provide recognition for teaching.

The award recipientfor the A.J. Bauernfeind COB will be selected by the A.J. Bauernfeind COBResearch Award Committee.The committee consists of a representative from each department and a chair, who is the AJB-COB’s representative on the MSU Research Policy Committee. The award recipient will be honored during a University-wide Scholars’ Week event, be recognized in the program of the Faculty Recognition Banquet, and will be presented a plaque in honor of this achievement.

Bauernfeind COB Faculty members who wish to be considered for the award must prepare a nomination form, with specified attachments, by March 1. The nomination form lists the award criteria, which essentially are research outcomes such as journal articles (published or forthcoming) or other scholarly activities from the prior calendar year. The nomination form is available online from the RPC website (

The COB research award committee will make its selection and notify the award recipient by March 15. The award committee will forward the recipient’s name, no later than March 25, to the MSU Research Policy Committee, for university-wide recognition.

A nomination form without attachments must be emailed to the chair of the AJB-COB Research Award Committee by March 1. A printout of the nomination form with attachmentsshould be submitted to Debbie Nesbitt in the Dean’s Office, for forwarding to the AJB-COB Research Award Committee, no later than 4:30 pm on March 1.

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AJB-COB Research Award Committee – Description: The committee includes a representative from each department and a chair, who is the AJB-COB’s representative on the MSU Research Policy Committee (RPC). The AJB-COB Research Award Committee selects the AJB-COB faculty member who will receive the RPC’s Outstanding Research Award. This award is described on the RPC website (

AJB-COB Research Award Committee, Current Members:

*Chair: Stefan Linnhoff, Management, Marketing & Business Administration

L.M. Smith, Accounting

Marc Beck, Computer Science and Information Systems

Junyi Xu, Economics and Finance

Tim Vance, Journalism and Mass Communications

Stefan Linnhoff, Management, Marketing, and Business Administration

Tim Worley, Organizational Communication

*AJB-COB Representative on the MSU RPC.

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Previous AJB-COB Outstanding Research Award recipients:

2013 - Dr. Katherine Taken Smith, Marketing

2014 - Dr. Tim Worley, Organizational Communication

2015 - Dr. Stefan Linnhoff, Marketing

2016 - Dr. Vladyslav Krotov, CSISand Dr. L.M. Smith, Accounting

Nomination Form

Murray State University Outstanding Research Award

Bauernfeind College of Business

The Outstanding Research Award criteria are shown below. Any faculty member who would like to be considered for the award should prepare a list of all research outcomes from the prior calendar year as shown on this nomination form, indicating total points by category and aggregate total points. The Outstanding Research Award will be presented to the faculty member attaining the highest aggregate total points. This form without attachments should be emailed to the chair of the AJB-COB Research Award Committee by March 1. A printout of this form with attachments should be submitted by 4:30 pm, March 1 to Debbie Nesbitt in the Dean’s Office, for forwarding to the AJB-COB Research Award Committee.

Categories of Research Outcomes* for the past Calendar Year, Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, (published or forthcoming):

1. Refereed journal articles – list here and attach a copy of each article. Assign points to each article, as follows:

Points based on ABDC journal quality list ( ):

A*/A = 50 points, B = 35 points, C = 20 points, Not Listed (NL) = 10 points. For selected journals not on the ABDC list, points are assigned per the appendix to this form. This list of selected journals was created especially for the JCM and COM Departments, but applies to all COB Departments.

[Point adjustments: solo-authored articles - 100 percent of points; coauthored articles with up to 3 authors -100 percent of points; coauthored articles with over 3 authors - 75 percent of points; no points off regardless ofauthor sequence].

Total Points: _____

2. Books (30 points each for major publisher, mass market books and 10 points each for other books, such as small press or self-published) – list here and attach a copy of each book.

Total Points: _____

3. Other publications(you can suggest 1 to 10 points each, final points awarded for these items will be determined by the awards committee) such as instructor manuals, study guides, other book supplements, monographs, published case problems, notable creative productions, book chapters, non-refereed articles, and software manuals – list here and attach a brief description.

Total Points: _____

4. Conference presentations (10 points each) – list here and attach the abstract of each presentation.

Total Points: _____

5. Research grants (external grants e.g. NSF grant - 30 points each, internal grants e.g. CISR grant - 20 points each) – list here and attach a brief description.

Total Points: _____

6. Research conference awards (30 points each) such as an outstanding published paper award or outstanding conference presentation award – list here and attach a brief description.

Total Points: _____

7. Notable dissemination of research (10 points total for this item) – can be demonstrated by high number of article downloads on SSRN.com, by “reads” on ResearchGate, by high number of citations of work on Google Scholar, or by other appropriate indicator – describe here.

Total Points: _____

8. Other items (you can suggest 1 to 10 points each, final points awarded for these items will be determined by the awards committee) – list here and attach appropriate documentation.

Total Suggested Points: _____

Aggregate Total Points Unadjusted(including suggested points from 3 and 8):_____

Adjustment to Aggregate Total Points, Multiply by* x_____

ADJUSTEDAGGREGATE TOTAL POINTS: _____

*Adjustment to Aggregate Total Points:

Spring/FallMultiply Unadjusted Total

Teaching Load Points by:

2-2 .67

3-2 .84

3-31.00

4-31.17

4-41.33

5-41.50

NOTES:

1. This nomination form was unanimously approved by the COB Research Award Committee on November 10, 2016. Future revisions require unanimity.

2. Any nominee for the COB Research Award who does not win the award but has attained at least 50 aggregate total points will be given an Honorable Mention Award from the COB Research Award Committee and/or recognized at the next COB faculty meeting.

3. A faculty member who receives the award is ineligible to receive the award in the subsequent three years. Example: If Professor X wins the award in the spring 2020, the earliest Professor X could win the award again would be spring 2024.The COB Research Award winner is eligible for the Honorable Mention Award during the subsequent three years.

4. If a tie in total points occurs for nominees from two different departments, the committee members from those departments are required to abstain from voting on the selection of the award winner.

5. Members of the AJB-COB Research Award Committee are ineligible for the award.

6. Time of service on the COB Research Award Committee is 3 academic years.

7. FYI - The Committee felt encouraging collaboration was very important and therefore determined to take off minimal points for co-authorship (25% off for articles with more than 3 coauthors); author sequence was considered irrelevant, as many coauthors contribute equal amounts and list names alphabetically.

APPENDIX

Point Values for Journals not on ABDC List*

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Journals associated with Organizational Communication

A*/A Equivalent Journals (50 points):

· Communication Monographs (18)

· Human Communication Research (24)

· Communication Research (33)

· Journal of Communication (48)

· Communication Theory (24)

· Management Communication Quarterly (24)

· Journal of Applied Communication Research (18)

· The Leadership Quarterly (54)

· Human Relations (45)

· Computers in Human Behavior (86)

· Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (28)

· Personal Relationships (23)

B Equivalent Journals (35 points):

· Annals of the International Communication Association (formerly Communication Yearbook) (h5 index not available)

· Communication Education (19)

· Quarterly Journal of Speech (12)

· Journal of Health Communication (39)

· Health Communication (26)

· Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (37)

· Journal of Organizational Change Management (23)

C Equivalent Journals (20 points):

· Business Communication Quarterly (20)

· International Journal of Business Communication (20)

· Journal of Communication Management (16)

· Small Group Research (21)

· Western Journal of Communication (16)

· Communication Quarterly (17)

· Communication Studies (15)

· Communication Reports (15)

· Communication Research Reports (15)

· Journal of Business and Technical Communication (15)

· Journal of Family Communication (14)

· Communication Teacher (7)

· Southern Communication Journal (11)

· Argumentation & Advocacy (8)

· Women’s Studies in Communication (10)

· Journal of Intercultural Communication Research

· Journal of Sport Behavior

· International Journal of Sport Communication (17)

· Text and Performance Quarterly (8)

· Qualitative Research Reports in Communication (h5 index not available)

NL Equivalent Journals (10 points):

· Journal of Communication in Healthcare (7)

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Note:

*The number in parenthesis is the h5-index per Google Scholar Metrics (Nov 2016).

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Journals associated with Journalism and Mass Communication

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Notes:

A faculty member can make a recommendation to add a journal to this list but must support the recommendation with metrics for the journal e.g. Cabell’s ICC rating, journal impact factor, Google Scholar’s h5-index, or other indicator of the journal’s quality. Subsequently, the Committee will make a decision regarding adding the journal and its point value to the list.