ISSUE: APRIL 2020

Dear Colleagues,

I hope all of you are keeping safe during the COVID-19 outbreak.

In this issue, we first summarize our major research achievements during March

and April this year, and the 2019 FBA Research Award Winners. Congratulations to

those colleagues for their research achievements!

Although we are in the coronavirus outbreak period, we never stopped progressing

in our research. In this issue, we provide a detailed examination of our research

performance in 2019, including an analysis of journal publications, internal/external

research grants, and the improvement in postdoctoral fellow and PhD recruitment.

As you can see from the analysis, we have made very good progress in improving

our research capacity and quality. We hope this analysis will provide you with a

better picture of where we are and which areas we need to further improve in 2020.

Thank all of you for your contributions to FBA’s research achievements.

Prof. Zhaotong LIAN

Associate Dean (Research), FBA

1. Message from Associate Dean

(Research)

2. Forthcoming Journal Publications

3. FBA Research Rewards

4. Journal Publication Comparison

5. Citations and H-indexes

6. Journal Publication Rates

7. Diversification of Journal Publications

8. Research Grants

9. PhD and Postdoctoral Recruitment

Table of Contents

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K. Si, X.Dai, & R. Wyer Jr. The Friend Number Paradox, Journal of Personality and Social

Psychology, forthcoming (ABS4)

L. Shu, F. Shi, & G. Tian. High-Dimensional Index Tracking based on the Adaptive Elastic

Net, Quantitative Finance, accepted (ABS3)

F. X. Yang, V.M.-C. Lau, & L. Ren. An original sin of casino hotels? Consequences of CSR

misfit and remedies, International Journal of Hospitality Management, forthcoming (ABS3)

ABS3 or Above (Mar - Apr 2020)

Source: Generated from http://bida.fba.um.edu.mo/staff/ as of 20th April, 2020

Forthcoming Journal Publications

2019 FBA Outstanding Research Award Winners

FBA Outstanding Research Award

(Research Track)

Prof. Warren Jie WU

FBA Outstanding Research Award

(Balance Track)

Prof. Rico Long Wai LAM

FBA Young Scholar Award

Dr. Jacey Ja Young CHOE

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Journal Publication Comparison / Citations and H-indexes

Journal Publication Comparison between 2018 and 2019

Fig. 1 demonstrates the FBA’s numbers of publications selected in ABS3/4/4* ranked

journals ([1]), Web of Science (WoS), Scopus ([2]) and refereed journals in 2018 and

2019. In overall, the research publications in 2019 are 10% more than that in 2018.

[1] ABS3/4/4* ranked and refereed journal publications are generated from

http://bida.fba.um.edu.mo/staff/ as of the 20th April 2020

[2] WoS and Scopus data are provided by UM library

Citations and H-indexes in WoS and Scopus

Fig. 2 demonstrates the FBA's number of citations in 2018 and 2019. Comparing with the

citations in 2018, the citations in 2019 has 38% increase in WoS and 50% increase in

Scopus. In 2019, The h-indexes are 36 on Scopus and 37 on WoS.

Diversification of Journal Publications

Fig. 5 demonstrates the journal publications in different disciplines during 2017 – 2019.

The Integrated Resort and Tourism Management has the most publications in both

ABS3/4/4* ranked journals and other refereed journals.

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Journal Publication Rates / Diversification of Journal Publications

Journal Publication Rates

Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 demonstrate the publication rates for different academic ranks and

academic tracks within the last three years (2017-2019). For example, 2.46 represents

that each professor published 2.46 refereed journal papers per year.

Fig. 3 illustrates that professor’s publication rates are higher than the associate

professor’s and assistant professor’s publication rates for both all the refereed journal

papers and ABS3/4/4* ranked journal papers.

Fig. 4 illustrates that the research-track staff’s publication rates are higher than the

balance-track staff’s publication rates. The research-track staff’s publication rate of

ABA3/4/4* ranked journal papers is almost twice that of the balance-track staff.

PhD and Postdoctoral Recruitment

By doing more promotion such as summer camp, Wechat group, etc., the number of PhD

applicants in the first two batches are 230 in 2020 comparing 190 in the whole year 2019.

And the percentage of PhD applications from top-100 mainland China or top-300 world

universities significantly increased to 69% in 2020 comparing 41.79% in 2019.

The postdoctoral applications in the first batch in 2020 is 16, comparing 23 in the whole

year 2019. The percentage of applications from top-one mainland China or top-300 world

universities significantly increased to 87.5% in 2020 comparing 40% in 2019.

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Research Grants / PhD and Postdoctoral Recruitment

Research Grants

FBA received 32 research grants including 24 UM internal research grants and 8 external

grants (1 from FDCT and 7 from DSES), which was slightly less than the number of

grants received in 2018. Noted that all 35 the research grants in 2018 were UM internal

research grants.

Fig. 6 demonstrates the research grants in different departments in 2018 and 2019.