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Ranking of Agricultural Economics Departments: Influence of Regional Journals, Joint Authorship, and Self‐Citations
Author(s) -
Beilock Richard,
Polopolus Leo
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.2307/1242082
Subject(s) - ranking (information retrieval) , journal ranking , quality (philosophy) , set (abstract data type) , agriculture , unit (ring theory) , index (typography) , citation , regional science , joint (building) , work (physics) , agricultural economics , political science , social science , economics , geography , sociology , library science , computer science , psychology , information retrieval , engineering , mathematics education , world wide web , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology , programming language , architectural engineering , mechanical engineering
Abstract Citations are increasingly used to indicate the quality of an academic unit's work. The set of literature or journals, however, becomes crucial to any ranking scheme. Citations from the broadly based Social Science Citations Index suggest a different ranking of departments than the ranking obtained from a somewhat narrowly focused set of North American journals of agricultural economics. The paper seeks to determine the influence of regional journals, joint authorship, and self‐citations on departmental rankings. Data bases of citations are developed for the faculty of seventy‐three departments of agricultural economics in the United States and Canada.