What causes a management article to be cited— Article, author, or journal

Citations to research articles in other research articles are increasingly used as a metric for assess-ing the impact of an article, the career success of researchers, and the quality and status of academic units and journals. Despite the growing importance of citations as a performance metric (Baldi, 1998; Monastersky, 2005; Starbuck, 2005), there is rela-tively little understanding of what drives citation rates for a given article. In this editorial, we report the results of a broad investigation into various factors that cause management articles to be cited. To make a long story short, we find that although certain characteristics of both articles (e.g., research plot, quality of writing) and authors (e.g., affiliation of the first author) influence citations, the singl