As part of its program of ‘Excellence in Research for Australia’ (ERA), the Australian Research Council ranked journals into four categories (A*, A, B, C) in preparation for their performance evaluation of Australian universities. The ranking is important because it likely to have a major impact on publication choices and research dissemination in Australia. The ranking is problematic because i...

Abstract The study investigates the process of creating evaluative homogeneity within a performance-based research funding system. It does so in reference to experience national journal ranking Poland 2019. refers cases two disciplines: biology and history. use this case is justified by its unique character, that through means both bibliometric indicators expert panels. We therefore asked: What...

The launch of Google Scholar Metrics as a tool for assessing scientific journals may be serious competition for Thomson Reuters’ Journal Citation Reports, and for Scopus’ powered Scimago Journal Rank. , A review of these bibliometric journal evaluation products is performed. We compare their main characteristics from different approaches: coverage, indexing policies, search and visualization, b...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an outline of the arguments for and against different types of journal ranking lists, and, against this background, an account of the development of the Association of Business Schools' (ABS) Journal Quality Guide. Design/methodology/approach – The paper identifies recent trends in academic journal publication that have increased the need for me...

1 Supported in part by a grant from the Texas Advanced Research Program. Abstract-We consider the problem of finding an optimum path from each node in the network to a destination node in the network. Typically, each edge in the network is assigned a weight value (e.g. bandwidth or delay), and a metric function (e.g. min or +) is applied consecutively to the edges in the path. The result is the...