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Ranking of United Kingdom Law Journals: An Analysis of the Research Assessment Exercise 2001 Submissions and Results
Author(s) -
Campbell Kevin,
Goodacre Alan,
Little Gavin
Publication year - 2006
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/j.1467-6478.2006.00362.x
Subject(s) - presumption , ranking (information retrieval) , exchequer , kingdom , context (archaeology) , government (linguistics) , research assessment exercise , quality (philosophy) , political science , law , actuarial science , public administration , business , history , computer science , higher education , information retrieval , politics , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology , biology
Notwithstanding the Chancellor of the Exchequer's announcement in the 2006 Budget that, after the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (‘RAE 2008’), it is the government's firm presumption that the system for assessing research quality and allocating quality‐related funding to United Kingdom universities will be mainly metrics based, RAE 2008 is vitually certain to proceed and to have considerable significance for legal research in the United Kingdom. In this rapidly developing and controversial context, this paper uses statistical analysis of the data from RAE 2001 to construct a series of metrics‐based rankings which, when taken together, provide a reliable and coherent ranking of leading United Kingdom law journals.