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01/31/2019 | Pressemitteilung

Good results for the University of Kassel in Wirtschaftswoche's business researcher ranking

Researchers at the University of Kassel have done well in a recent ranking published in Wirtschaftswoche. Two researchers from Kassel are among the best 100 business administration researchers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Kassel scientists also did well in the category of young researchers. Overall, the ranking evaluates the work of 2,824 researchers.

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The researchers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland were evaluated on their publication performance in scientific journals. Three ranking categories were formed: One ranking based on publication achievements in the period from 2014 to 2018, one based on all publication achievements to date since the beginning of the research career ("lifetime achievement"), and one specifically focusing on researchers under the age of 40. The University of Kassel performed particularly well among young researchers.

Researchers at the university in northern Hesse achieved the following rankings in Wirtschaftswoche's business administration researcher rankings: Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister, Head of the Department of Information Systems and Director at the Scientific Center for Information Technology Design (ITeG) at the University of Kassel, is ranked 4th in the German-speaking world based on publication output in professional journals from 2014 to 2018. Leimeister, who is also Professor and Director at the Institute for Information Systems (IWI) at the University of St. Gallen, also comes in 8th in the "Lifetime Achievement" category.

Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner, an assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems and Systems Development at the University of Kassel and an assistant professor at the Institute of Information Systems at the University of St. Gallen, ranks 68th in publication output and 26th among researchers under 40.

Dr. Christoph Peters, research group and project leader at the Department of Information Systems at the University of Kassel and project leader at the Institute of Information Systems at the University of St. Gallen, comes in at 85th place in the category of researchers under 40.

Dr. Stefan Seuring, Head of the Department of Supply Chain Management at the University of Kassel, comes in at 107th place in the lifetime achievement category of all 2,824 researchers surveyed in the field of business administration in German-speaking countries. Prof. Dr. Patrick Spieth, Dean of the Department of Economics at the University of Kassel and Head of the Department of Technology and Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship, is ranked 130th based on publication output from 2014 to 2018, as well as 52nd among all researchers under the age of 40 surveyed.

University President Prof. Reiner Dr. Finkeldey congratulated the BWL researchers on their excellent rankings: "The good performance of our scientists is both an award and an incentive in the competition between universities."

The ranking was published in issue 4/2019 of Wirtschaftswoche. The study was conducted by the Swiss Institute for Business Cycle Research (KOF) at ETH Zurich in collaboration with the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.


Contact:
Beate Hentschel
University of Kassel
Communications, Press and Public Relations
E-mail: presse@uni-kassel.de
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