Disciplinary knowledge diffusion in business research

Highlights：

• This paper conducts quantitative analyses on a large dataset of journal-to-journal citations for business journals published between 1997 and 2009 and reveals important patterns of knowledge diffusion. The interdisciplinary knowledge diffusion is discipline dependent and converging to a similar level in terms of the diversity. More interestingly, aside from other factors such as articles published in the journal and the number of classifications, we find that journal quality, as measured by inclusion in the UT Dallas top journal list, has a significant effect on cross-disciplinary knowledge flows. Our results are consistent with the status-seeking theory in the citation context.