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The Eternal Criterion Problem in the Context of Impact

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2017

Edward L. Levine
Edward L. Levine*
Affiliation:
Emeritus, University of South Florida
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Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Edward L. Levine, 6717 Whiteway Drive, Temple Terrace, FL 33617. E-mail: elevine@usf.edu
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The focal article by Aguinis et al. (2017) offers a rich brew of data and explication regarding the devilishly complicated concept of impact of sources (both science-based and practice-based), of industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology articles, and of authors of articles in the discipline of I-O psychology. The criteria developed to assess the impact of these are simple frequency counts indexing the number of times items within each domain are cited by leading introductory I-O psychology textbooks, which in turn leads to ranked lists. These are then used as a basis for answering numerous highly significant questions about the discipline of I-O psychology, including its scholarly and practice-based underpinnings, and the future prospects of the field.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , December 2017 , pp. 588 - 594
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2017 

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