Northwestern and USNews trade insults online over college rankings

Also, go to any elite university’s department website and count an engineering (or other fields of STEM) full professor’s publications. Then go to the same university’s department website in business and count a business full professor’s publications. You will note that an engineering professor often has more than 100 publications, but a business professor often has just a few dozens. Also note the average number of pages for each publication. An engineering article is usually much shorter than a business article. A typical lead time for publication in an elite business journal (from the birth of idea to the actual publication) is about 4-6 years today.

I am not saying journal article in one field is more rigorous than the other. What I want to point out is that across fields, journal article publication is perceived and done differently. Lumping all of them together making little sense.