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  1. What is Information? Toward a Theory of Information as Objective and Veridical

    Article • Journal of Information Technology, June 2018, SAGE Publications

    John Mingers

  2. Using Google Scholar institutional level data to evaluate the quality of university research

    Article • Scientometrics, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Mingers

  3. Why things happen – Developing the critical realist view of causal mechanisms

    Article • Information and Organization, September 2017, Elsevier

    John Mingers

  4. Erratum to: Normalizing Google Scholar data for use in research evaluation

    Article • Scientometrics, June 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Mingers

  5. Normalizing Google Scholar data for use in research evaluation

    Article • Scientometrics, May 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Mingers

  6. An integrative semiotic methodology for IS research

    Article • Information and Organization, March 2017, Elsevier

    John Mingers

  7. Back to the future: A critique of Demetis and Lee's “Crafting theory to satisfy the requirements of systems science”

    Article • Information and Organization, March 2017, Elsevier

    John Mingers

  8. Evaluating journal quality: A review of journal citation indicators and ranking in business and management

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, February 2017, Elsevier

    John Mingers

  9. A review of theory and practice in scientometrics

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, October 2015, Elsevier

    John Mingers

  10. A systemic method for organisational stakeholder identification and analysis using Soft Systems Methodology (SSM)

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, October 2015, Elsevier

    John Mingers

  11. An integrative semiotic framework for information systems: The social, personal and material worlds

    Article • Information and Organization, January 2014, Elsevier

    John Mingers

  12. Ranking academic impact of world national research institutes--by the Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Article • Research Evaluation, July 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    John Mingers

  13. Evaluating a department’s research: Testing the Leiden methodology in business and management

    Article • Information Processing & Management, May 2013, Elsevier

    John Mingers

  14. Developing a performance management system using soft systems methodology: A Chinese case study

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, December 2012, Elsevier

    John Mingers

  15. Taylorizing business school research: On the 'one best way' performative effects of journal ranking lists

    Article • Human Relations, November 2012, SAGE Publications

    John Mingers

  16. Estimating Business and Management journal quality from the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise in the UK

    Article • Information Processing & Management, November 2012, Elsevier

    John Mingers

  17. Abduction: the missing link between deduction and induction. A comment on Ormerod's ‘rational inference: deductive, inductive and probabilistic thinking’

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, May 2012, Nature

    John Mingers

  18. Using the h-index to measure the quality of journals in the field of business and management

    Article • Information Processing & Management, March 2012, Elsevier

    John Mingers

  19. Soft OR comes of age—but not everywhere!

    Article • Omega, December 2011, Elsevier

    John Mingers

  20. Introduction to the Special Issue: Teaching Soft O.R., Problem Structuring Methods, and Multimethodology

    Article • INFORMS Transactions on Education, September 2011, INFORMS

    John Mingers

  21. Ethics and OR: Operationalising discourse ethics

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, April 2011, Elsevier

    John Mingers

  22. A review of the recent contribution of systems thinking to operational research and management science

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, December 2010, Elsevier

    John Mingers

  23. Should you stop investing in a sinking fund when it is sinking?

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, November 2010, Elsevier

    John Mingers

  24. The 3E methodology for developing performance indicators for public sector organizations

    Article • Public Money & Management, September 2010, Taylor & Francis

    John Mingers

  25. The drivers of citations in management science journals

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, September 2010, Elsevier

    John Mingers, Fang XU

  26. Counting the citations: a comparison of Web of Science and Google Scholar in the field of business and management

    Article • Scientometrics, July 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Mingers

  27. Beyond rigour and relevance: A critical realist approach to business education

    Article • Management Learning, November 2009, SAGE Publications

    John Mingers

  28. Measuring the research contribution of management academics using the Hirsch-index

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, September 2008, Nature

    John Mingers

  29. Management knowledge and knowledge management: realism and forms of truth

    Article • Knowledge Management Research & Practice, February 2008, Nature

    John Mingers

  30. Using SSM to structure the identification of inputs and outputs in DEA

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, December 2007, Nature

    John Mingers

  31. Ranking journals in business and management: a statistical analysis of the Harzing data set

    Article • European Journal of Information Systems, August 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Anne-Wil Harzing, John Mingers

  32. Exploring the dynamics of journal citations: Modelling with s-curves

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, May 2007, Nature

    John Mingers

  33. Operational research: the science of better?

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, April 2007, Nature

    John Mingers

  34. Modeling citation behavior in Management Science journals

    Article • Information Processing & Management, December 2006, Elsevier

    John Mingers

  35. Response from the author: Intelligence and realism in OR

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, October 2006, Nature

    John Mingers

  36. An evaluation of the limitations of, and alternatives to, the Co-Plot methodology

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, May 2006, Nature

    John Mingers

  37. Combining PSMs with hard OR methods: the philosophical and practical challenges

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, February 2006, Nature

    John Mingers

  38. A critique of statistical modelling in management science from a critical realist perspective: its role within multimethodology

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, May 2005, Nature

    John Mingers

  39. ‘More dangerous than an unanswered question is an unquestioned answer’: a contribution to the Ulrich debate

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, March 2005, Nature

    John Mingers

  40. Comments on the classification of management science methods by Mingers

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, March 2005, Nature

    John Mingers

  41. The use of the concept autopoiesis in the theory of viable systems

    Article • Systems Research and Behavioral Science, January 2005, Wiley

    John Mingers

  42. Can Social Systems be Autopoietic? Bhaskar's and Giddens' Social Theories

    Article • Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, December 2004, Wiley

    John Mingers

  43. Paradigm wars: ceasefire announced who will set up the new administration?

    Article • Journal of Information Technology, August 2004, Nature

    John Mingers

  44. Critical Realist Applications in Organisation and Management Studies

    Article • June 2004, Taylor & Francis

    John Mingers

  45. Critical realism and information systems: brief responses to Monod and Klein

    Article • Information and Organization, April 2004, Elsevier

    John Mingers

  46. Real-izing information systems: critical realism as an underpinning philosophy for information systems

    Article • Information and Organization, April 2004, Elsevier

    John Mingers

  47. Problem structuring methods in action

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, February 2004, Elsevier

    John Mingers

  48. Mingers on the classification of philosophical assumptions

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, December 2003, Nature

    John Mingers

  49. The power of multi-methodology: some thoughts for John Mingers

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, December 2003, Nature

    John Mingers

  50. The paucity of multimethod research: a review of the information systems literature

    Article • Information Systems Journal, July 2003, Wiley

    John Mingers

  51. A classification of the philosophical assumptions of management science methods

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, June 2003, Nature

    John Mingers

  52. Can Social Systems Be Autopoietic? Assessing Luhmann's Social Theory

    Article • The Sociological Review, May 2002, SAGE Publications

    John Mingers

  53. Reply to Ormerod—the importance of being real

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, March 2002, Nature

    John Mingers

  54. Response to Ormerod: play it again, Sam

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, March 2002, Nature

    John Mingers

  55. Embodying information systems: the contribution of phenomenology

    Article • Information and Organization, April 2001, Elsevier

    John Mingers

  56. Fuenmayor's interpretive systemology?A critical comment

    Article • Systems Practice, June 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Mingers

  57. Criticizing the phenomenological critique?Autopoiesis and critical realism

    Article • Systems Practice, April 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Mingers

  58. The cognitive theories of Maturana and Varela

    Article • Systems Practice, August 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Mingers

  59. The philosophical implications of Maturana's cognitive theories

    Article • Systems Practice, December 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Mingers

  60. An introduction to autopoiesis: A reply to Fenton Robb's comment

    Article • Systems Practice, September 1989, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Mingers

  61. An introduction to autopoiesis?Implications and applications

    Article • Systems Practice, June 1989, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Mingers

  62. An empirical comparison of selection measures for decision-tree induction

    Article • Machine Learning, March 1989, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Mingers

  63. Pluralism, Realism, and Truth

    Article • IGI Global

    John Mingers