nep-sog 2011-08-02 papers

on Sociology of Economics

Issue of 2011‒08‒02
two papers chosen by
Jonas Holmström
Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration

Dünya’da ve Türkiye’de İktisat Bölümleri ve İktisatçılar Sıralaması By Halicioglu, Ferda
Citations and Impact of ISI Tourism and Hospitality Journals By Chia-Lin Chang; Michael McAleer

Dünya’da ve Türkiye’de İktisat Bölümleri ve İktisatçılar Sıralaması

By:	Halicioglu, Ferda
Abstract:	This short note presents the research rankings of economists and economics departments at world-wide and Turkish scale using RePEc data base as of June 2011. Brief suggestions and conclusions are provided for the Turkish researchers and economics departments so that they could increase their research rankings.
Keywords:	research ranking; World; Turkey
JEL:	A10
Date:	2011
URL:	http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:32407&r=sog

Citations and Impact of ISI Tourism and Hospitality Journals

By:	Chia-Lin Chang; Michael McAleer (University of Canterbury)
Abstract:	The paper analyses the leading international journals in Tourism and Hospitality Research using quantifiable Research Assessment Measures (RAMs), highlights the similarities and differences in alternative RAMs, shows that several RAMs capture similar performance characteristics of highly cited journals, and shows that some other RAMs have low correlations with each other, and hence add significant informational value. Several RAMs are discussed for the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science database (hereafter ISI). Alternative RAMs may be calculated annually or updated daily to answer the questions as to When, Where and How (frequently) published papers are cited. The RAMs include the most widely used RAM, namely the classic 2-year impact factor including journal self citations (2YIF), 2-year impact factor excluding journal self citations (2YIF*), 5-year impact factor including journal self citations (5YIF), Immediacy (or zero-year impact factor (0YIF)), Eigenfactor, Article Influence, C3PO (Citation Performance Per Paper Online), h-index, PI-BETA (Papers Ignored - By Even The Authors), 2-year Self-citation Threshold Approval Ratings (2Y-STAR), Historical Self-citation Threshold Approval Ratings (H-STAR), Impact Factor Inflation (IFI), and Cited Article Influence (CAI). As data are not available for 5YIF, Article Influence and CAI for 11 of the 14 journals considered, 10 RAMs are analysed for 14 highly-cited journals in Tourism and Hospitality in the ISI category of Hospitality, Leisure, Sports & Tourism. Harmonic mean rankings of the 10 RAMs for the 14 highly-cited journals are also presented. It is shown that emphasizing the 2-year impact factor of a journal, which partly answers the question as to When published papers are cited, to the exclusion of other informative RAMs, which answer Where and How (frequently) published papers are cited, can lead to a distorted evaluation of journal impact.
Keywords:	Research assessment measures; Impact factor; IFI; C3PO; PI-BETA, STAR; Eigenfactor; Article Influence; h-index
JEL:	L83 Y10
Date:	2011–07–01
URL:	http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cbt:econwp:11/27&r=sog

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