Study: Smeal Real Estate Faculty Ranks Among Top Ten In Published Research
Penn State's Smeal College of Business ranks as the fourth most-published real estate department in the world and two Smeal faculty members are among the top ten most-productive real estate academics worldwide, according to a report in the Journal of Real Estate Research based on publications in leading real estate journals.
Study: Smeal Real Estate Faculty Ranks Among Top Ten In Published Research
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (May 29, 2008) – Penn State's Smeal College of Business ranks as the fourth most-published real estate department in the world and two Smeal faculty members are among the top ten most-productive real estate academics worldwide, according to a report in the Journal of Real Estate Research based on publications in leading real estate journals.
In "The Internationalization of Real Estate Research," researchers Kam C. Chan, William G. Hardin III, Kartono Liano, and Zheng Yu examine data on authors and institutions contributing to real estate research in nine research journals from 1990 to 2006.
They divide the research journals into two categories: three core journals (Real Estate Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and the Journal of Real Estate Research) and nine broad journals (the three core journals plus the International Real Estate Review, the Journal of Housing Economics, the Journal of Regional Studies, the Journal of Urban Economics, Land Economics, and Regional Science and Urban Economics.
Smeal ranks fourth for research in the broad nine journals and sixth in the core research journals, according to the report.
The researchers also divide the 17-year period into three separate sub-periods—1990-1994, 1995-2000, and 2001-2006—and reexamine the data to rank institutions in each sub-period.
Smeal is one of only five institutions to rank in the top ten in each sub-period for research published in the broad nine journals. The college ranks fourth in the 1990-1994 sub-period, third in the 1995-2000 sub-period, and tenth in the 2001-2006 sub-period. Sub-period data for the three core journals ranks Smeal seventh, fourth, and eighteenth, respectively.
The research paper also ranks real estate academics according to their publications in the same broad nine journals over the same time period and sub-periods.
Brent Ambrose, Chaired Professor of Insurance and Real Estate, ranks fifth in the 17-year period examined in the study, and Abdullah Yavas, Elliott Professor of Business Administration, ranks ninth.
Additionally, Yavas is one of only six academic researchers to appear in the top 25 in each of the three sub-periods. He ranks 21st in the 1990-1994 sub-period, 15th in the 1995-2000 sub-period, and 13th in the 2001-2006 sub-period.
Ambrose ranks tenth in the 1990-1994 sub-period and second in the 2001-2006 sub-period.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
