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Business and Management

D-Index
87
Citations
88220
World Ranking
104
National Ranking
51

Economics and Finance

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79
Citations
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282
National Ranking
207

Scott Shane publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Scott Shane sits on this spectrum.

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35 publications 436+

This scientist: 243 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

Scott Shane D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Scott Shane sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 156 scientists 31 D-Index: 159 scientists 32 D-Index: 171 scientists 33 D-Index: 161 scientists 34 D-Index: 135 scientists 35 D-Index: 124 scientists 36 D-Index: 114 scientists 37 D-Index: 111 scientists 38 D-Index: 103 scientists 39 D-Index: 89 scientists 40 D-Index: 81 scientists 41 D-Index: 97 scientists 42 D-Index: 80 scientists 43 D-Index: 69 scientists 44 D-Index: 68 scientists 45 D-Index: 63 scientists 46 D-Index: 54 scientists 47 D-Index: 69 scientists 48 D-Index: 50 scientists 49 D-Index: 58 scientists 50 D-Index: 54 scientists 51 D-Index: 62 scientists 52 D-Index: 54 scientists 53 D-Index: 43 scientists 54 D-Index: 49 scientists 55 D-Index: 35 scientists 56 D-Index: 40 scientists 57 D-Index: 44 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 29 scientists 60 D-Index: 48 scientists 61 D-Index: 32 scientists 62 D-Index: 30 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 22 scientists 65 D-Index: 19 scientists 66 D-Index: 20 scientists 67 D-Index: 18 scientists 68 D-Index: 17 scientists 69 D-Index: 21 scientists 70 D-Index: 20 scientists 71 D-Index: 19 scientists 72 D-Index: 14 scientists 73 D-Index: 10 scientists 74 D-Index: 16 scientists 75 D-Index: 24 scientists 76 D-Index: 13 scientists 77 D-Index: 19 scientists 78 D-Index: 8 scientists 79 D-Index: 6 scientists 80 D-Index: 4 scientists 81 D-Index: 12 scientists 82 D-Index: 7 scientists 83 D-Index: 7 scientists 84 D-Index: 6 scientists 85 D-Index: 10 scientists 86 D-Index: 4 scientists 87 D-Index: 11 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89+ D-Index: 96 scientists
30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 87 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2009 - Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum

Overview

Scott Shane is affiliated with Case Western Reserve University in the United States and specializes in research within the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their work addresses several subfields, including Accounting, Management Information Systems, and Management of Technology and Innovation.

Their research prominently covers topics related to Private Equity and Venture Capital, FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance, and Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Scott Shane are the following:

  • Examining the outcomes of entrepreneur pitch training: an exploratory field study (2022) published in Small Business Economics
  • Founder smiles increase investor trust and funding (2025) published in Scientific Reports
  • How Pitch Order Affects Investor Interest (2021) published in Journal of Innovation Economics & Management

Frequent co-authors include:

  • David Clingingsmith
  • Nicos Nicolaou
  • Mark Conley
  • Will Drover
  • Dimosthenis Stefanidis

Publication venues where Scott Shane's research is commonly published include:

  • Small Business Economics
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Innovation Economics & Management

In 2009, Scott Shane received the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research from the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum.

Best Publications

  • The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research

    Scott Shane;Sankaran Venkataraman

  • Prior Knowledge and the Discovery of Entrepreneurial Opportunities

    Scott Shane

  • A General Theory of Entrepreneurship: The Individual-Opportunity Nexus

    Scott Andrew Shane

  • Opportunities and Entrepreneurship

    Jonathan T. Eckhardt;Scott A. Shane

  • Explaining the formation of international new ventures: The limits of theories from international business research☆

    Patricia Phillips McDougall;Scott Shane;Benjamin M. Oviatt

  • Network Ties, Reputation, and the Financing of New Ventures

    Scott Shane;Daniel Cable

  • The Promise of Enterpreneurship as a Field of Research

    Scott Shane;S. Venkataraman

  • A General Theory of Entrepreneurship

    Unknown

  • Why do some universities generate more start-ups than others?

    Dante Di Gregorio;Dante Di Gregorio;Scott Shane

  • Organizational Endowments and the Performance of University Start-ups

    Scott Shane;Toby Stuart

  • Why encouraging more people to become entrepreneurs is bad public policy

    Scott Shane

  • National Cultural Distance and Cross-Border Acquisition Performance

    Piero Morosini;Scott Shane;Harbir Singh

  • Cultural influences on national rates of innovation

    Scott Shane

  • Entrepreneurial Motivation

    Unknown

  • Academic entrepreneurship : university spinoffs and wealth creation

    Scott Andrew Shane

  • Legitimating first: organizing activities and the survival of new ventures

    Frédéric Delmar;Scott Shane

  • The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By

    Scott Andrew Shane

  • Does business planning facilitate the development of new ventures

    Frédéric Delmar;Scott Shane

  • The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research

    Unknown

  • Entrepreneurship: A Process Perspective

    Robert A. Baron;Scott Andrew Shane

  • Reflections on the 2010 AMR Decade Award: Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship As a Field of Research

    Scott Shane

  • Technological Opportunities and New Firm Creation

    Scott Shane

  • Why do some societies invent more than others

    Scott A. Shane

Frequent Co-Authors

Frédéric Delmar
Frédéric Delmar EMLYON Business School
Marie C. Thursby
Marie C. Thursby Georgia Institute of Technology
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Julia Lane
Julia Lane New York University
Karl T. Ulrich
Karl T. Ulrich University of Pennsylvania
Daniel M. Cable
Daniel M. Cable London Business School
Frank Hoy
Frank Hoy Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Robert A. Baron
Robert A. Baron Oklahoma State University
Massimo Mangino
Massimo Mangino King's College London
Paul Westhead
Paul Westhead Durham University

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