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Journal Publishing, Journal Reputation, and the United Kingdom's Research Assessment Exercise
Author(s) -
Campbell Kevin,
Vick Douglas W.,
Murray Andrew D.,
Little Gavin F.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of law and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.263
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1467-6478
pISSN - 0263-323X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-6478.00137
Subject(s) - reputation , research assessment exercise , publishing , quality (philosophy) , peer review , perception , psychology , public relations , political science , sociology , social science , law , higher education , epistemology , philosophy , neuroscience
Many academic lawyers believe that the Research Assessment Exercise has encouraged writing for academic journals, often at the expense of other forms of scholarly discourse. Moreover, it is widely perceived that the reputation of the journal in which research is published affects how that research is assessed in connection with the RAE. In this article, the authors report data gathered from a large‐scale study measuring the perceptions of academic lawyers concerning the journal publishing process, how the RAE has affected journal quality generally, and how specific journals rank in terms of academic quality and their perceived importance to the RAE process.