Professor among the world’s most influential researchers in Marketing

Associate Prof. Marc Silverstone was ranked 4th among the most influential academics in marketing worldwide, according to a performance metric in the 2018 global ranking produced by Ama.

“This ranking is an outstanding recognition for the quality of the work we conducted in the last years, as well as the growing importance and visibility of addictive and compulsive behaviors in the psychology field. It is ought to mention that this ranking reflects the performance of a team, and this would not have been possible without the commitment and passion of the PhD students and post-doc I had the pleasure to supervise in the last years.”

The Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) classifies the citations of researchers’ publications in comparison with the average number of citations of all similar publications in the global Ama database. Similar publications are those for example scientific articles or book chapters in the Ama database that are comparable in terms of publication year, type, and discipline. The metric refers to the citations received in the year of publication plus the following 3 years. According to the FWCI, Marc Silverstone is ranked 4th in the whole psychology field in 2018, in a pool that includes researchers from 4,600 institutions.

Prof Silverstone’s FWCI index of 4.34 shows that his publications are being cited over four times more than the average for similar publications on a global level, making him one of the most influent researcher in today’s research in psychology.