An examination of the reliability of prestigious scholarly journals
Subtitle: evidence and implications for decision-makers
By: by Andrew J. Oswald
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2070; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2070
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Scholarly periodicals; Qualitative research
Description: "In universities all over the world, hiring and promotion committees regularly hear the argument: "this is important work because it is about to appear in prestigious journal X". Moreover, those who allocate levels of research funding, such as in the multi-billion pound Research Assessment Exercise in UK universities, often come under pressure to assess research quality in a mechanical way by using journal prestige ratings. The results in this paper suggest that such tendencies are dangerous. It uses total citations over a quarter of a century as the criterion. The paper finds that it is far better to publish the best article in an issue of a medium-quality journal like the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics than to publish the worst article (or often the worst 4 articles) in an issue of a top journal like the American Economic Review. Implications are discussed"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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