Alison Ashby

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 845 citations indexed

About

Alison Ashby is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Marketing and Management Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Alison Ashby has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 845 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Strategy and Management, 3 papers in Marketing and 2 papers in Management Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Alison Ashby's work include Sustainable Supply Chain Management (4 papers), Environmental Sustainability in Business (3 papers) and Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (2 papers). Alison Ashby is often cited by papers focused on Sustainable Supply Chain Management (4 papers), Environmental Sustainability in Business (3 papers) and Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (2 papers). Alison Ashby collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Brazil and France. Alison Ashby's co-authors include Mike Leat, Melanie Hudson Smith, Pourya Pourhejazy, John T. E. Richardson, Alan Woodley and Minelle E. Silva and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Supply Chain Management An International Journal and Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management.

In The Last Decade

Alison Ashby

8 papers receiving 810 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Making connections: a review of supply chain management and sustainability literature

2012 591 citations Alison Ashby, Mike Leat et al. Supply Chain Management An International Journal profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alison Ashby United Kingdom	7	663	324	272	125	84	8	845
Juan Rodón Spain	11	648 1.0×	370 1.1×	258 0.9×	66 0.5×	50 0.6×	14	930
Vikram S. Bhadauria United States	6	1.2k 1.8×	874 2.7×	320 1.2×	291 2.3×	55 0.7×	16	1.4k
Cristina Sancha Spain	10	692 1.0×	342 1.1×	274 1.0×	82 0.7×	93 1.1×	18	789
Stefan E. Genchev United States	9	866 1.3×	255 0.8×	735 2.7×	118 0.9×	77 0.9×	13	1.2k
Flávio Hourneaux Brazil	11	409 0.6×	292 0.9×	72 0.3×	53 0.4×	78 0.9×	55	685
Vitor William Batista Martins Brazil	12	270 0.4×	125 0.4×	104 0.4×	31 0.2×	44 0.5×	62	598
Nelson Oliveira Stefanelli Brazil	13	392 0.6×	242 0.7×	141 0.5×	45 0.4×	42 0.5×	24	706
Baris Yalabik United Kingdom	6	462 0.7×	336 1.0×	174 0.6×	81 0.6×	16 0.2×	11	597
Marília Bonzanini Bossle Brazil	11	528 0.8×	519 1.6×	33 0.1×	50 0.4×	136 1.6×	29	932
Nagendra Kumar Sharma India	10	371 0.6×	256 0.8×	104 0.4×	58 0.5×	53 0.6×	23	641

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alison Ashby

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alison Ashby. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alison Ashby based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alison Ashby. Alison Ashby is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Silva, Minelle E., et al.. (2021). Social Sustainability in Micro and Small Enterprise Supply Chains: Empirical Insights from the Clothing Industry. Latin American Business Review. 24(1). 1–30. 7 indexed citations

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Pourhejazy, Pourya & Alison Ashby. (2021). Reshoring Decisions for Adjusting Supply Chains in a Changing World: A Case Study from the Apparel Industry. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(9). 4873–4873. 10 indexed citations

3.

Ashby, Alison. (2018). Developing closed loop supply chains for environmental sustainability. Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management. 29(4). 699–722. 53 indexed citations

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Ashby, Alison. (2016). From global to local: reshoring for sustainability. Operations Management Research. 9(3-4). 75–88. 98 indexed citations

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Ashby, Alison, Mike Leat, & Melanie Hudson Smith. (2012). Making connections: a review of supply chain management and sustainability literature. Supply Chain Management An International Journal. 17(5). 497–516. 591 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ashby, Alison, John T. E. Richardson, & Alan Woodley. (2011). National student feedback surveys in distance education: an investigation at the UK Open University. Open Learning The Journal of Open Distance and e-Learning. 26(1). 5–25. 14 indexed citations

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Ashby, Alison. (2004). Monitoring student retention in the Open University: definition, measurement, interpretation and action. Open Learning The Journal of Open Distance and e-Learning. 19(1). 65–77. 71 indexed citations

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Ashby, Alison, et al.. (1989). Digest of Open University Statistics 1971-1987. Report No. 24.. 1 indexed citations

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