Maybe you've never stopped to wonder what articles published in the first quarter-century of Nonprofit Management & Leadership are its most popular. However, I hope you're now at least interested in the question, and will take a few minutes to check out a new special virtual issue of the journal available at https://t.co/sHFZgeSF0c. The six articles featured in this virtual issue were selected based on Google's count of citations in all sources, including academic journals, research reports, theses, working and conference papers, books, and other kinds of outputs crawlable by Google.
Which article is #1? More details in my introduction to the virtual issue. The answer is that it depends on whether we're considering citations per year or total citations.
· Ray Dart's 2004 "The Legitimacy of Social Enterprise" leads on the first measure, with 61 citations per year.
· Robert Kaplan's 2001 'balanced scorecard' article, "Strategic Performance Measurement and Management in Nonprofit Organizations" leads on the second measure, with 886 citations (on the day I did my counts last month).
Four other excellent articles round out what we're calling the "2017 NML Pantheon":
· Robert Herman and Dave Renz's 2008 "Advancing Nonprofit Organizational Effectiveness Research and Theory: Nine Theses"
· Alnoor Ebrahim's 2003 "Making Sense of Accountability: Conceptual Perspectives for Northern and Southern Nonprofits"
· Will Brown's 2005 "Exploring the Association between Board and Organizational Performance in Nonprofit Organizations"
· Adil Najam's 2000 "The Four C's of Government Third Sector-Government Relations"
These articles have been re-assembled in this special virtual issue. Most PNP-NET subscribers always have access to these articles through their university libraries, but Wiley has opened these six articles to the public (released from their pay-wall) through April 30. I'm hopeful that everyone in the world will therefore go take a look at these six great articles. Hearty congratulations to these authors for their enduring work!
Mark Hager
Editor, Nonprofit Management & Leadership
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Mark A. Hager, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, School of Community Resources & Development
Arizona State University
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