R2M Index 1.0: Assessing the Practical Relevance of Academic Marketing Articles

Using text-mining, the authors develop version 1.0 of the Relevance to Marketing (R2M) Index, a dynamic index that measures the topical and timely relevance of academic marketing articles to marketing practice. The index assesses topical relevance drawing on a dictionary of marketing terms derived f...

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Published in:	Journal of marketing Vol. 85; no. 5; pp. 22 - 41
Main Authors:	Jedidi, Kamel, Schmitt, Bernd H., Ben Sliman, Malek, Li, Yanyan
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01-09-2021 SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects:	Academic marketing Bibliometrics marketing topic modeling marketing practice relevance information retrieval marketing theory
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Summary:	Using text-mining, the authors develop version 1.0 of the Relevance to Marketing (R2M) Index, a dynamic index that measures the topical and timely relevance of academic marketing articles to marketing practice. The index assesses topical relevance drawing on a dictionary of marketing terms derived from 50,000 marketing articles published in practitioner outlets from 1982 to 2019. Timely relevance is based on the prevalence of academic marketing topics in practitioner publications at a given time. The authors classify topics into four quadrants based on their low/high popularity in academia and practice —“Desert,” “Academic Island,” “Executive Fields,” and “Highlands”—and score academic articles and journals: Journal of Marketing has the highest R2M score, followed by Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, and Journal of Consumer Research. The index correlates with practitioner judgments of practical relevance and other relevance measures. Because the index is a work in progress, the authors discuss how to overcome current limitations and suggest correlating the index with citation counts, altmetrics, and readability measures. Marketing practitioners, authors, and journal editors can use the index to assess article relevance, and academic administrators can use it for promotion and tenure decisions (see www.R2Mindex.com). The R2M Index is thus not only a measurement instrument but also a tool for change.
ISSN:	0022-2429 1547-7185
DOI:	10.1177/00222429211028145