The purpose of this study is to test the existence of the exposure effect in journal ranking decisions. The exposure effect emergeswhen participants of journal ranking surveys assign higher scores to some journalsmerely because they aremore familiarwith themrather than on their objective assessment of the overall journal’s contribution to the field. Analysis of the journal ranking data from a s...

Instead of using citations or marketing academics’ perceptual ranking of journals, this article examines the ranking of marketing journals using Australian university library holdings, in either hard copy or full-text electronic format. This measure was used as a proxy for broad-based accessibility of marketing journals. The study found that the accessibility rankings differed significantly fro...

This study investigates relationship between the journal ranking lists reported in previous studies on IS journal quality and the rankings derived based on citation data. Journals are categorized into pure, hybrid, partial, and non-IS journals. A total of 8,023 articles published in 38 journals are analyzed and 27,567 citations made to these articles are collected. Five citation-based indices a...

MOTIVATION The growing availability of full-text scientific articles raises the important issue of how to most efficiently digest full-text content. Although article titles and abstracts provide accurate and concise information on an article's contents, their brevity inevitably entails the loss of detail. Full-text articles provide those details, but require more time to read. The primary goal ...

The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine has already been valued as an international journal, according to a citation analysis in 2011. Now, 2 years later, I would like to confirm how much the Journal has advanced from the point of view of journal metrics by looking at the impact factor, cites per document (2 years), SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), and the Hirsch index. These were obtained from a va...

This paper provides a ranking of 69 marketing journals using a new Hirsch-type index, the hg-indexwhich is the geometric mean of hg. The applicability of this index is tested on data retrieved from Google Scholar on marketing journal articles published between 2003 and 2007. The authors investigate the relationship between the hg-ranking, ranking implied by Thomson Reuters’ Journal Impact Facto...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a global ranking of knowledge management and intellectual capital academic journals. Design/methodology/approach – An online questionnaire was completed by 233 active knowledge management and intellectual capital researchers from 41 countries. Two different approaches: journal rank-order and journal scoring method were utilized and produced simi...