Optimizing Academic Articles: A Practical Guide for Managers

Abstract

Articles published in academic journals are rich in research that can be invaluable for business management, operations, and strategy. But managers often consider the publications to be too theoretical and impractical. This note can help business practitioners how to approach academic articles and quickly extract relevant information they can apply in their decision-making to benefit their organization.

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UVA-S-0328

Rev. Aug. 11, 2020

Optimizing Academic Articles: A Practical Guide for Managers

Introduction

Academic publications are written with the purpose of sharing and advancing knowledge in a particular field. Such publications present new research that expands our understanding of a topic developed in previous literature. Academic articles cover a wide variety of fields, from economics to strategy, mathematics, medicine, and many others. For professors and the academic realm, scholarly articles are vital.

Top journals publish only the best ideas and research from experts in a given field. Articles in these publications are rooted in data and analysis that is rigorously reviewed for context and accuracy. Publishing in such journals requires years of dedicated work and, typically, numerous drafts to respond to revision requests from peer reviewers as well as the journal's editor(s).

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