Evaluating Transportation Research Journal Quality Using the Author Affiliation Index

Gorman, Michael F.; Kanet, John J.; Christ, Dominique

doi:10.5325/transportationj.50.4.0370

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“…The original AAI formula was devised by Harless and Reilly (1998) aiming to set a minimum standard for publication outlets for the faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University, which was gradually regarded as an alternative measures of academic journal's reputation (Gorman and Kanet 2005;Chen and Huang 2007;Ferratt et al 2007;Gorman et al 2011;Chan et al 2012;Fry and Donohue 2014;Ginieis and Li 2020). The formulation of AAI can be written as…”

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“…Subsequent to Harless and Reilly (1998), Gorman and Kanet (2005) expand the application of the AAI to the evaluation and ranking of a set of operations management journals. Since then, the AAI has been broadly employed to evaluate diverse discipline specific journals (Chen and Huang 2007;Ferratt et al 2007;Gorman et al 2011;Chan et al 2012;Fry and Donohue 2014;Ginieis and Li 2020).…”

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Timing sequence changes of landscape plants in Shanghai Area, China

Yang

Tang

Shao

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J. Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. (Sci.)

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Based on published reports and direct observation, the common resources of landscape plant species in the Shanghai area were identified and studied in terms of the landscape characteristics of timing sequence changes over a one year time period. The results showed that there were 199 common landscape plant species in Shanghai, distributed in 67 families and 129 genera. These plants were categorized by three ornamental characteristics: flowers, foliage and fruits. The species were thus further analyzed according to the time periods which these characteristics were present. The results showed that flower ornamental distributed throughout the year, particularly from April to June, and plant species with colorful foliage could be seen every month, and particularly in November and December. On the other hand, few plant species with fruit ornamentals were observed in Shanghai area. The diversity of landscape timing sequence changes of the 199 plant species under examination was then analyzed by using the Shannon-Weiner and Simpson index formulas. The results showed that the higher diversity was observed in January, February and from August to October, while the lowest diversity was recorded from March to July and during November and December. The diversity of landscape characteristics of these plants was ranked according to foliage, flowers and fruit. Using this method, one park and one plant community were selected to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of their time-changing plant landscape, with the goal of assessing the validity of the chosen ranking method. These results in the present study would be helpful to evaluate the plant landscape in a specified space and further enrich the diversity of plant and landscape by a target-oriented way.Modern urban landscaping brings ecological and social benefits to city residents, including direct contact with seasonal scenery changes. Landscape plants are the main elements for these timing sequence changes, and their annual life rhythms provide the basis for developing harmonious landscaping [1] . Indeed, timing sequence changes of landscape plants is the key factor for enriching garden diversity, as emphasis on diverse seasonal changes of landscape plants is an important way to improve the quality of urban green spaces. Up to now, there were many reports on the importance and evaluation about the seasonal changes of plants around the world [2][3] .In the past two decades, landscaping has made significant achievements in improving the public parks in Shanghai. Specifically, considerable effort has been made to increase the seasonal changes and introduce the diverse colorful plant species in green space. For example, through selecting and domesticating a variety of colorful plant and shrub species not indigenous to the Shanghai area, the diversity of foliage ornamentals has increased [4][5] . However, this process requires long-term research and practice so as to achieve a properly multifaceted enriching diversity of landscape plants in Shanghai. It is therefore import...

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Timing sequence changes of landscape plants in Shanghai Area, China

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Tang

Shao

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J. Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. (Sci.)

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“…Compared with the results obtained by Guthrie et al [24], the accounting field also yielded the highest AAI score at 0.795 and displayed higher AAIs on average. Research in transportation [33] followed a similar pattern and displayed the range of AAI scores from 0.090-0.670. To further study the reasons behind such a difference in AAI scores, it is observed that there are frequently many co-authors in the same publications in journals focused on the sustainability and environmental science subject.…”

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Ranking of Sustainability Journals Using the Author Affiliation Index and Comparison to Other Journal Metrics

Ginieis

2020

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An important component in evaluating research productivity is the quality of the academic journal. For this reason, the objective of this paper is to analyze the Author Affiliation Index (AAI) in sustainability field journals as a preliminary study to offer some insights into quality rating of journals in this chosen discipline. The AAI of a journal is defined as the percentage of the journal’s articles published by authors affiliated with a base set of high-quality academic universities or institutions. We conducted an evaluation of the top 50 journals in environmental studies indexed in the category Social Science in the Web of Science (WOS) database in 2018 and the top-notch 50 universities worldwide with master or postgraduate programs in the disciplines of management and sustainability studies. The results obtained demonstrate that there is a low AAI score on average in the sustainability field compared with other disciplines and the potential reason for such low scoring is probably caused by the high number of co-authors collaborating in environmental studies related journals. Although there is no agreement reached in terms of journal ratings by AAIs and other citation and survey-based measures, we can confirm certain elite affiliations effect which leading sustainability journals have higher concentrations of authors who are affiliated with elite institutions, however, such elite affiliation effect is on average much lower compared with other disciplines as finance, accounting or transportation, etc.

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“…Author affiliations are also used to build the author affiliation index. The index was introduced in 2005 to assess journal quality (Fry & Donohue, 2014) in different academic disciplines (Chan, Tong, & Zhang, 2012;Chen & Huang, 2007;Cronin & Meho, 2008;Gorman, Kanet, & Christ, 2011;Guthrie, Everett, Vijayakumar, & Olds, 2012) and to evaluate faculty publication productivity (Maloni, Carter, & Kaufmann, 2012).…”

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Misrepresentation of institutional affiliations: The results from an exploratory case study of Chilean authors

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University ranking systems and the publish‐or‐perish dictum are driving universities and researchers around the world to increase their research productivity and publication outputs. There is no regulated checking of author affiliations as authors are expected to only include affiliations to universities that have contributed substantially to the research conducted and to the published manuscript. Our study aims to establish whether author affiliations can be validated and if there is evidence of misrepresentation from authors who report multiple institutional affiliations. We conducted an exploratory case study on Scopus‐indexed articles for 2016, searching all authors who reported multiple institutional affiliations in which at least one of them was to a Chilean university. Of 4,961 author records with multiple affiliations, we were unable to validate 38% of the affiliations to a Chilean university by checking the institutional websites. This affected 40% of articles and was most prevalent in health sciences and for private, new, universities. ORCID identifiers were not suitable for checking affiliations as there was low use of them: only 14% of the multiple‐affiliated authors. The inability to validate affiliations might indicate misconduct, and if it is an indication of misrepresentation, it could have profound implications for many stakeholders (universities, journals, ranking houses, funders, and higher education policy‐makers) due to inflated publication counts and under‐reporting the actual input from individual institutions.

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Evaluating Transportation Research Journal Quality Using the Author Affiliation Index

Cited by 8 publications

References 9 publications

Timing sequence changes of landscape plants in Shanghai Area, China

Timing sequence changes of landscape plants in Shanghai Area, China

Ranking of Sustainability Journals Using the Author Affiliation Index and Comparison to Other Journal Metrics

Misrepresentation of institutional affiliations: The results from an exploratory case study of Chilean authors

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