Stanford–Elsevier 2025: Five EMLV Faculty Members Among the Top 2% Scientists

The 2025 update of the science-wide author databases, which include standardized citation indicators, lists scientists whose citation impact reaches high thresholds, measured in a standardized manner using Scopus.

Five faculty members of EMLV, affiliated with the De Vinci Research Center (DVRC), are included: Ranjan Chaudhuri (Business & Management, Marketing), Duc Khuong Nguyen (Finance, Economics), Duygu Türker (Business & Management, Applied Ethics), Muhammad Ishtiaq Ishaq (Business & Management, Marketing), and Ammar Ali Gull (Finance & Corporate Governance).

An international ranking confirming EMLV’s scientific visibility

The Stanford–Elsevier database provides a structured and comparable picture of scientific influence, discipline by discipline.

It covers fields and subfields defined by the Science-Metrix taxonomy and offers two complementary readings: a set of indicators over an entire career and an annual focus. Inclusion is based on thresholds combining a composite citation score (c-score) and positioning within the top percentiles of a sub-discipline.

In this context, the presence of five EMLV/DVRC faculty members confirms the school’s strong visibility in the broad field of economics and business, with differentiated specializations in finance, management, marketing, applied ethics, and governance.

This recognition complements the teaching and mentoring activities conducted at EMLV, as well as the research projects undertaken within the DVRC.

• Rigorous methodology, ensuring global academic recognition
• Sources: Scopus (publications, citations, and author metadata).
• Scope: Science-Metrix fields and subfields.
• Indicators: citation count, h-index and hm-index (weighted by co-authorship), citation/article ratio, author positions, c-score. Tables distinguish versions with and without self-citations.
• Selection: inclusion if the author ranks among the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or within the top 2% of their sub-discipline.
• Temporal scope: career impact updated to the end of the previous year and “recent year” impact for the latest year available.

This methodology standardizes the reading of metrics across sub-disciplines, while requiring careful interpretation due to differences in coverage by field.

A strong signal for research and interdisciplinarity at the DVRC

This recognition highlights the active themes of the DVRC and strengthens the visibility of expertise for academic and corporate collaborations.

The joint presence in finance, management, marketing, applied ethics, and governance reflects a diverse research portfolio addressing financial and non-financial performance, governance, technological transformation, sustainability, and social responsibility.

Recent publications illustrate this scope and are directly integrated into the teaching of Master and MSc programs, as well as doctoral and DBA supervision.

Faculty members engaged in finance, management, marketing, and responsibility

Duc Khuong Nguyen — Finance, Economics (EMLV/DVRC)

Director of EMLV and specialist in financial markets, international transmissions, and monetary policies. His recent publications focus on:

• Commodity markets and systemic risk (Risk Analysis, 2025).
• Governance and information: CEO gender, financial expertise, and stock crash risk (Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2025).
• Monetary policies and transmission channels between the US and China (Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, 2025).
• Family entrepreneurship, values, and ethics (Journal of Business Ethics, 2025).
• Financial inclusion and fintech (Financial Innovation, 2025).
• Agricultural economics and productivity (Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2024).
• Climate transition and financial risk (Journal of International Money and Finance, 2024).

Ranjan Chaudhuri — Business & Management, Marketing (EMLV/DVRC)

As the director of the DBA at EMLV, his research focuses on B2B purchasing performance, AI-augmented customer relations, retail supply chains, and behavioral sciences. His recent work includes:

• Bibliometric analyses of CSR (Global Business & Economics Review, 2025).
• Digital skills and environmental performance (Technology in Society, 2025).
• SME performance, crowdfunding, and dynamic capabilities (Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 2025).
• Family firms and SDGs (International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 2025).
• Avatars in marketing and consumer engagement (Journal of Global Marketing, 2025).
• Digital transformation and green supply chains (Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2025).
• Leadership Humility and Employee Voice (European Management Journal, 2025).
• Data-driven growth hacking and R&D innovation (Journal of Business Research, 2025).

Duygu Türker — Business & Management, Applied Ethics (EMLV/DVRC)

Duygu’s work addresses applied ethics, CSR, and organizational sustainability, focusing on institutional logics and supply chain practices. Publications include:

• Institutional pressures, greenwashing, and hybrid capacity (Management Decision, 2025).
• Responsible innovation and sustainability (Creativity and Innovation Management, 2023).
• CSR authenticity and organizational attractiveness (Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 2023).
• Supplier sustainability and institutional logics (Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022).
• Social innovation and responsibility (European Journal of Innovation Management, 2022).
• Social enterprise and technology innovation (Social Enterprise Journal, 2021).

Muhammad Ishtiaq Ishaq — Business & Management, Marketing (EMLV/DVRC)

As Associate Professor and Head of the MSc Digital Business & Analytics, Muhammad’s research spans:

• Consumer behavior and marketing: emotions, immersive technologies, and post-purchase dynamics.
• Sustainability and CSR: leadership, green orientation, and environmental performance.
• Knowledge management and innovation: big data, entrepreneurship, and competitive performance.
• Ethics and leadership: workplace spirituality, responsibility, and organizational engagement.
• Digital technologies and customer experience: AI, gamification, and VR in consumer relations.

Ammar Ali Gull — Finance & Corporate Governance (EMLV/DVRC)

Associate Professor in Finance, his research explores corporate governance, CSR, and financial reporting quality. Published in British Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, and Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, his work focuses on:

• Board governance: co-option, diversity, and compensation.
• CSR and sustainability: decoupling between discourse and practices, sustainability committees.
• Financial reporting and auditing: readability of disclosures, earnings management, audit fees.
• Corporate finance and risk: CEO pay, crash risk, and banking risk-taking.
• Institutions and regulation: role of quotas, diversity policies, and cultural contexts.

The Stanford–Elsevier database provides standardized benchmarks of citation impact. The inclusion of Ranjan Chaudhuri, Duc Khuong Nguyen, Duygu Türker, Muhammad Ishtiaq Ishaq, and Ammar Ali Gull confirms the strength of research in Economics & Business at EMLV and the DVRC, spanning risk and economic policy, digital transformation and performance, responsibility, sustainability, and governance.

These contributions not only enrich academic knowledge but also feed into teaching, international collaborations, and the broader visibility of EMLV as a hub for impactful research.

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