Smeal College Real Estate Faculty Rank No. 2 For Editorial Representation
Penn State's Smeal College of Business ranks No. 2 in an assessment of real estate programs according to research in the Journal of Real Estate Practice and Education, which measures faculty representation on the editorial boards of leading real estate journals.
Smeal College Real Estate Faculty Rank No. 2 For Editorial Representation
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (October 19, 2004)—Penn State's Smeal College of Business ranks No. 2 in an assessment of real estate programs according to research in the Journal of Real Estate Practice and Education , which measures faculty representation on the editorial boards of leading real estate journals. The article also finds a strong correlation between editorial board activity and research productivity.
"Editorial Board Representation: An Alternative Method for Ranking Real Estate Programs" (Volume 7, Number 1, 2004) ranks programs based on faculty representation on the editorial staffs of three key journals in 1998 and 2003: Real Estate Economics , the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics , and the Journal of Real Estate Research .
The 336 editorial board members in the study came from 67 U.S. universities and 13 international institutions. Smeal had the highest single-year representation with nine editorial appointments in 2003, up from five appointments in 1998.
"Among the top ten universities," the author writes," Pennsylvania State University and the University of Wisconsin are notable for their emerging presence on the editorial boards of leading real estate journals. In 2003, Pennsylvania State University had more editorial board representatives that any other university in either of the years studied."
Beyond the three journals highlighted in the study, Smeal’s real estate faculty also hold editorial positions at a variety of other publications. At the close of the 2003-2004 academic year, Austin Jaffe, Philip H. Sieg Professor of Business Administration; Kenneth Lusht, chair of the Department of Insurance and Real Estate and the Zimmerman Endowed University Fellow; and Abdullah Yavas, Elliott Professor of Business Administration, held more than 20 editorial appointments.
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.
