Florida Atlantic University College of Business Faculty Ranked Among World’s Most Cited Researchers

Florida Atlantic University College of Business faculty Anil Bilgihan, Rebel Cole, Douglas Cumming,  and Siri Terjesen are named in a Stanford University database of the world’s top 2 percent most cited researchers across 22 scientific fields of study.

The prestigious list, compiled by Stanford faculty Jeroen Baas, Kevin Boyack and John P.A. Ioannidis, is considered to be one of the best ways to measure faculty research productivity and impact.

Bilgihan, an associate professor of marketing at FAU, is listed in the database under the sports, leisure and tourism category, while Cole and Cumming, both finance professors, are listed under finance. Terjesen, an associate dean and professor of management programs, is listed under business and management.

The four College of Business professors are among 53 from FAU to make the list. The other 49 FAU researchers are mainly in the sciences.

• Anil Bilgihan is a renowned services marketing expert with a specialization in information technology applications in the tourism and hospitality industries. He joined the College of Business at FAU in 2013 from the Ohio State University. Since joining FAU, he has published more than 90 peer-reviewed scientific articles that were cited over 11,000 times. He is the author of a widely adopted hospitality information systems textbook. His research involves the use and impact of technology, user experience, digital marketing and online social interactions in the services industries that appeared in prestigious journals including Tourism Management, Information & Management, Internet Research, Journal of Business Research, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Computers in Human Behavior, Electronic Research Commerce and Applications, Journal of Service Management, and International Journal of Information Management. He is the recipient of several awards including the Cisco Extensive Research Award, Emerald Citations of Excellence Award, FAU Scholar of the Year Award and Highly Commended Award winner of the Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards. Before joining FAU, he served on two Ph.D. committees. 

• Rebel A. Cole is the Lynn Eminent Scholar Chaired Professor of Finance in the College of Business at FAU. He joined FAU in 2016 after more than a decade teaching at DePaul University in Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1988, after which he spent ten years working as a financial economist in the Federal Reserve System. After leaving the Fed, he has served as a special adviser to the Asian Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other non-governmental organizations, providing training and technical assistance to central banks around the world in more than 60 countries. He has published peer-reviewed articles in many of top academic finance journals, including The Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, and his research has been featured in Businessweek, the Financial Times, Fortune, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. According to Google Scholar, his articles have been cited more than 12,000 times. His primary areas of research are corporate governance, entrepreneurship, financial institutions, and real estate. Rebel has been the primary supervisor for four FAU PhD students and has served on several other PhD committees. 

• Douglas Cumming joined the College of Business in 2018 from the Schulich School of Business at York University. Since joining FAU, he has published five books with Oxford, Wiley, and Elsevier, and more than 60 peer-reviewed articles on venture capital, private equity, hedge funds, fintech and stock market manipulation and regulation in journals that include the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Journal of International Business Studies. His work has been cited more than 23,500 times. He is the recipient of the 2022 Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance World Class Faculty Award. He is the primary supervisor for three current FAU Ph.D. students and has served on numerous Ph.D. committees.

• Siri Terjesen joined FAU’s College of Business in 2019 after a career at American University in Washington D.C. and Indiana University. She serves as Associate Dean, Research and External Relations, Phil Smith Professor of Entrepreneurship and Executive Director of the Madden Center for Value Creation. Her research on strategy, entrepreneurship and corporate governance has been cited more than 15,500 times and has garnered more than $6 million in grants and gifts. She was appointed by the U.S. President to the National Board for Education Sciences and has supervised ten Ph.D. students. She is an affiliated professor to her alma mater, the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen, Norway. Dr. Terjesen has consulted for the World Bank and multinational companies worldwide and her research has been cited in international media such as U.S. News & World Report, Businessweek and CNBC.

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