Not Another "Researcher-Centric" Index: A Cautionary Note

In their focal article, Aguinis et al. (2017) conducted an empirical analysis of the most frequently cited sources, articles, and authors in industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology textbooks. The authors conclude that their results are encouraging regarding the scientist-practitioner model (p. 545). We disagree. Although we applaud the effort that went into this research, we are concerned that the method used in the article, focusing on textbook citations, creates yet another researcher-centric index that will do nothing to address the research-practice gap. The problematic researcher-centric perspective manifests itself in several ways in the focal article, which we elaborate below.