TOPIC GUIDE : PBRFand journal ranking- a quick guide to resources

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Contents

Journal impact factors & ranking lists
Selected general articles on journal rankings
Selected articles on ranking, by subject area
  Accounting & Finance
  E-Commerce
  Economics
  Entrepreneurship
  Information Systems
  International Business
  Management
  Marketing
  Operations Management
  Property

 

 

Cited by information
Evidence portfolios - PE and CRE
Articles on PBRF
UoA Research Office - PBRF pages
Tertiary Education Commission - Performance Based Research Fund
TEC 2012 PBRF Quality Evaluation Guidelines

 

 

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Journal Impact Factors & RankingsTop of page

ABDC journal ratings list Australian Business Dean’s Council list. Updated 2010

ABS academic journal quality Guide (UK)

The Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) ranked journal list. The Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative assesses research quality within Australia's higher education institutions.One of the indicators used is discipline-specific tiered outlet rankings.

Journal Citation Reports: Social Sciences Edition  ranks journals by a variety of criteria including impact factor .See also the Library's Journal Citation Reports Helpsheet and A Guide to Using Impact Factors

Journal quality list  from Harzing.com. Lists are compiled and edited by Dr. Anne-Wil Harzing, The University of Melbourne. The current version contains 20 different rankings of 916 journals.


General articles on journal rankings Top of page

Bergstrom, C. (2007, May).Eigenfactor: Measuring the value and prestige of scholarly journals. C&R L News, 68(5).

Geary, J., Marriott, L., & Rowlinson, M. (2004). Journal rankings in business and management and the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise in the UK.British Journal of Management 15(2).

Siemens, J.C. , Burton, S. Jensen T & Mendoza, N.A. (2005). An examination of the relationship between research productivity in prestigious business journals and popular press business school rankings. Journal of Business Research, 58(4), 467-476

Swanson, E. P. (2004) Publishing in the majors: A Comparison of accounting, finance, management and marketing. Contemporary Accounting Research, 21(1), 223-255.  A recently developed analytical model of the research review process provides theory about the norms used by editors and referees in deciding whether to publish research papers.

Swanson, E. P., Wolfe, C. J. & Zardkoohi, A. (2006) Concentration in the major business journals: Evidence and consequences for accounting, finance, management, and marketing


Rankings by subject area Top of page

The following lists are selective. For a more detailed list of articles on journal rankings and ratings consult the University of Western Ontario libraries Journal rankings in business

Accounting and Finance Top of page

Ballas, A. & Theoharakis, V. (2003, Winter). Exploring Diversity in Accounting through Faculty Journal Perceptions. Contemporary Accounting Research, 20(4), 619-644.

Beattie, Vivien A. & Goodacre, Alan. (2005, March). A New Method for Ranking Academic Journals in Accounting and Finance. University of Stirling Accounting, Finance and Law Working Paper No. 01/2005

Chan, K. C., Chen, C. R., & Cheng, L. T. W. (2005, February). Ranking Research Productivity in Accounting for Asia-Pacific Universities.Review of Quantitative Finance & Accounting, 24(1), 47-64.

Glover, S.M. Prawitt, D.F. & Wood , D.A. (2006). Publication Records of Faculty Promoted at the Top 75 Accounting Research Programs  
Website at http://marriottschool.byu.edu/emp/GloverPrawittWood/  provides additional data and analysis.  

Mathieu, R. & McConomy, B.J. (2003) Productivity in "Top-Ten" Academic Accounting Journals by Researchers at Canadian Universities, Canadian Accounting Perspectives, 2(1), 43-76.  

Milne, Markus J. (2001). Debating accounting research journal rankings : empirical issues from a citation based analysis and theoretical dilemmas from Economics. University of Otago, Department of Accountancy and Business Law.

Oltheten, E. Theoharakis, V. & Travlos, N. G. (2005) Faculty Perceptions and Readership Patterns of Finance Journals: A Global View.Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, 40(1), 223-239.

Prather-Kinsey, J.J. & Rueschhoff,H.G. (2004) An Analysis of International Accounting Research in U.S.- and Non-U.S.-Based Academic Accounting Journals.Journal of International Accounting Research, 3(1), 63-81.

Swanson, E. P. (2004, Spring). Publishing in the Majors: A Comparison of Accounting, Finance, Management and Marketing. Contemporary Accounting Research, 21(1), 223-255. A recently developed analytical model of the research review process provides theory about the norms used by editors and referees in deciding whether to publish research papers.


E-Commerce Top of page

Bharati, P & Tarasewich, P. (2002). On site: Global perceptions of journals publishing e-commerce research. Communications of the ACM, 45(5).


Economics Top of page

Axarloglou, K., & Theoharakis, V. (2003). Diversity in Economics: An Analysis of Journal Quality Perceptions. Journal of the European Economic Association, 1(6), 1402-1423.

Barrett, C.B., Olia, A., & Von Bailey, D. (2000). Subdiscipline-specific journal rankings: whither Applied Economics? Applied Economics, 32(2), 239-252.

Coupé, T. (2003, December). Revealed Performances: Worldwide Rankings of Economists and Economics Departments, 1990–2000. Journal of the European Economic Association, 1(6).

Econometrics Journal Online Rankings

Kalaitzidakis, P. Mamuneas, T.P., & Stengos, T. (2003). Rankings of Academic Journals and Institutions in Economics. Journal of the European Economic Association, 1(6).

Keele List of 442 Economics Journals - Keele University, Research Institute for Public Policy and Management

Pomfret, R. & Choon Wang, L. (2003). Evaluating The Research Output Of Australian Universities' Economics Departments. Australian Economic Papers, 42(4), 418-441.


Entrepreneurship Top of page

Entrepreneurship journal rankings

Entrepreneurship Journals, includes Financial Times ranking


Information Systems Top of page

A compilation of MIS Journal Rankings, edited by Carole Saunders and the Senior Scholars' Basket of Journals is maintained by the Association of Information Systems

Barnes, S. J. (2005). Assessing the value of IS journals.Communications of the ACM, 48(1), 110-112. Retrieved from Business Source Premier.

Fisher, J., Shanks, G., & Lamp, J. (2007). A ranking list for Information Systems journals. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 14,(2), 5-18. Retrieved 25 March 2009 from http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/view/469

Hsieh-Hong, H., & Jack Shih-Chieh, H. (2005). An evaluation of publication productivity in Information Systems: 1999 to 2003. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2005(15), 555-564. Retrieved from Business Source Premier.

Lowry, P. B., Romans, D. & Curtis, A. (2004). Global journal prestige and supporting disciplines: A scientometric study of Information Systems journals. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 5(2), p29-77, 49p

MIS Faculty, Michigan State University. (2008, October). Information Systems journal ranking ("A", "B", "C" journals). Retrieved 25 March 2009 from http://www.cbi.msstate.edu/faculty/shim/ar.htm

Rainer, R.K., & Miller, M. D. (2005). Examining differences across journal rankings. Communications of the ACM, 48(20), 91-94. Retrieved from Business Source Premier.

Willcocks, L., 1, Whitley, E. A., & Avgerou, C. (2008). The ranking of top IS journals: a perspective from the London School of Economics. European Journal of Information Systems, 17, 163–168. doi:10.1057/ejis.2008.9 This is one of four opinion papers in this issue devoted to journal ranking lists.


International Business Top of page

DuBois F.L., & Reeb, D. (2000). Ranking the International Business Journals. Journal of International Business Studies, 31, 689–704.  This study seeks to assess and rank the relative quality of 30 international business journals using both a citation analysis and a survey approach.  

Inkpen, Andrew C. (2001). A Note on Ranking the International Business Journals. Journal of International Business Studies, 32(1),193-196. Discusses research by DuBois and Reeb (2000), which examined the relative quality of 30 international business (IB) journals


Management Top of page

Caligiuri. P. M. (1999). The ranking of scholarly journals in international human resource management International Journal of Human Resource Management, 10 (3).Based on the opinions of experts in the field of international human resource management (IHRM), scholarly journals were nominated and ranked.

McWilliams, A. , Siegel, D. & Van Fleet, D. (2005, April). Scholarly Journals as Producers of Knowledge: Theory and Empirical Evidence Based on Data Envelopment Analysis. Organizational Research Methods, 8(2), 185-201.   The authors outline a theoretical framework in which an academic journal is considered to be a “producer” of intellectual output. Using the field of management as an example, the authors specify the inputs and outputs of the production process and estimate the relative efficiency of journals using Data Envelopment Analysis

Van Fleet, D. D., McWilliams, A., & Siegel, D. S. A. (2000). Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Journal Rankings: The Case of Formal Lists, Journal of Management, 26(5), 839-861.  This study examines the use of formal rankings of journals by management departments for personnel decision purposes  


Marketing Top of page

American Marketing Association. Journal Ranking Literature and Tables.

Steward, M., & Lewis, B.. (2010). A Comprehensive Analysis of Marketing Journal Rankings. Journal of Marketing Education, 32(1), 75. 

Bakir, A. Vitell, S. J.& Rose, G. M. (2000). Publications in major marketing journals: An analysis of scholars and marketing departments. Journal of Marketing Education, 22(2), 99. The influence of marketing journals : a citation analysis of the discipline and its sub-areas.

Baumgartner, H., & Pieters, R. (2000). The influence of marketing journals : a citation analysis of the discipline and its sub-areas. Centre for Economic Research. An important characteristic of journals is how influential they are in the generation and dissemination of scholarly knowledge in a discipline. We report a citation analysis of 49 marketing and marketing-related journals to assess their relative influence based on the index of structural influence proposed by Salancik (1986).

Cheng, L. T. W., Chan, K. C., & Chan, R. Y. K. (2003). Publications in Major Marketing Journals: An Analysis of Research Productivity of Asia-Pacific Universities.Journal of Marketing Education, 25(2), 163-176.

Mort, G. S.,  McColl-Kennedy, J. R., Kiel  G., & Soutar, G. N. (2004). Perceptions of Marketing Journals by Senior Academics in Australia and New Zealand. Australasian Marketing Journal 12(2).

Theoharakis, V., & Hirst A. (2002, November). Perceptual differences of marketing journals: A worldwide perspectiveMarketing Letters, 13(4), 389-402. This study seeks to examine the perceptual differences of journals between different segments of marketing academics. It is demonstrated that an individual's geographic origin, research interests or journal affiliation can have a significant impact on journal rankings

Uncles, M.D. (2004). Journal Rankings: How Much Credence Should We Give Them?  Australasian Marketing Journal, 12(2)  


Operations Management Top of page

Kovács, G., Spens, K., & Vellenga, D. B. (2008, August). Academic publishing in the Nordic countries - a survey of logistics and supply chain related journal rankings. International Journal of Logistics: Research & Applications, 11(4),313-329. Retrieved from Business Source Premier. Note: Use Find Full Text to locate the article.

Olson, J. E. (2005). Top-25-Business-School Professors Rate Journals in Operations Management and Related Fields.Interfaces, 35(4), 323-338. Retrieved from Business Source Premier.

Vastag, G., & Montabon, F. (2002). Journal characteristics, rankings and social acculturation in operations management. Omega, 30(2), 109-126. Retrieved from ScienceDirect database.


Property Top of page

Hardin, W. G., Liano, K., & Chan, K. C. (2006). Influential journals, institutions and researchers in real estate. Real Estate Economics, 34(3), 457-478.

Tu, C., & Worzala, E. (2010). The perceived quality of real estate journals: does your affiliation matter? Property Management, 28(2), 104-121.


Evidence Portfolios  - PE and CRE Top of page

Improve your Evidence Portfolio (EP), by finding citations of your work that use or review it favourably. This is important for both peer esteem (PE) and Contribution to the Research Environment (CRE).

Page references below are from : Performance-Based Research Fund: Guidelines 2006. (July 2005).

Peer Esteem (PE)

This refers to material from 2000-2005, by your peers, that shows the esteem they have for your research, including favourable reviews and citations (p 55-6).

[...] Such citations do not need to show agreement with the research findings but should show that the research is regarded as credible and significant. Staff members should provide an interpretation of any citation data.(p56).

Contribution to the Research Environment (CRE)

Similarly, you should include up to the most significant 30 examples of CRE.  The examples should relate to 2000-2005.

However a staff member may include examples of contribution to the research environment from outside the assessment period if such contributions are outstanding or of particular significance. (p60).

Note: avoid duplication of information in the Peer Esteem and Contribution to the Research Environment fields.  The [peer-review] panel will only consider such information once. (p63).

Tip: Research material before 2000: although any of your research material published or publicly disseminated prior to 01/01/00 is ineligible as Research Outputs [RO],

· Reviews of it, during 2000-2005, are eligible as peer esteem [PE]

· Use of it (e.g., of a “methods” paper or of software), during 2000-2005, is eligible as evidence of your contribution to the research environment [CRE].


'Cited by' information Top of page

Who's Citing Me? PBRF Assistance for Business (pdf) Prepared by the Business and Economics Information Services Team in 2010. Focusses on citation indexes and other tools.

Key Databases

Web of Science find who has cited a particular article or book. This is the main database to use. Good for tracking journal article citations. Use the Create citation alert feature to receive emails for any subsequent citing of a particular article. Also note the additional data available for citations eg ranking features, international spread for citations. Poor coverage of New Zealand journals

Google scholar look for Cited by links for some of the results

Business Source Premier  has Times cited in this database links for some articles. It also has a Cited references button on the top of the page menu bar. Note that the 'cited bys' are only to other items in the EBSCOhost database

ScienceDirect  look for the Cited by link for individual records. There is also a link to Cited by in Scopus for individual records. The cited by articles are again. like BSP, only to those titles included in the ScienceDirect and Scopus databases

Scopus is related to ScienceDirect (same company owns them). It has a clean search interface and it is easy to find the cited by link to the right side of each item in a results list

Other databases to search for 'cited by' information are those that allow you to run your search through the fulltext or all text. Databases allowing you to do this include ABI/INFORM and Expanded Academic (which has the full text of the Social policy journal of New Zealand and the New Zealand Economic Papers)

ScienceWatch for Data and Rankings (replaces In-cites now archived) - see Economics: High-Impact U.S. Institutions, 2003-07 ; Journals Ranked by Impact: Economics Impact 1981-2006; Impact 2002-06; 2006 Impact Factor. This site focuses on the sciences


Selected articles on PBRF Top of page


Comments and suggestions to: Margaret Tibbles

 Last updated: 3 November, 2010