Internationality of Women Specialty Journals: Content Analysis and Survey of Editors

Twenty Years of Law Journal Publishing: A Comparative Analysis of International Publication Trends

“…The rising advocacy for greater internationalization within criminological fields [5,50] have recently motivated several efforts to empirically assess the internationality of criminology and criminal justice. Accordingly, compared to the abovementioned studies, we find more direct measures of internationality in the works of Barberet [5], Kim and Merlo [33], Kim et al [32,35,36], Faraldo-Cabana and Lamela [26], and Messner [37].…”

“…Although the tradition of bibliometrics-that precedes scientific applicationsappears to be historically inseparable from the legal world [43,44], the literature of bibliometric studies concerning the topic of internationality of academic legal research is relatively scarce compared to other fields, for instance, geographics [4,27], information science [48], international relations [40], or psychology [2,10]. The existing literature typically focuses on the field's internationality as indicated either by the most influential scholars [15,16,25] or by specific journals [26,32,[35][36][37].…”

“…Similarly, various studies conducted by Kim and colleagues set out to indicate the progress of internationalization within criminology and criminal justice as presented on the levels of policing [36], juvenile justice [32] and women specialty [35]. Kim et al [36] analyzed 1123 papers published in the three major policing journals of Police Quarterly, Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, and Policing during the period of 2000-2013 to assess the prevalence of articles concerning policing in East Asian countries, a region accounting for one-fifth of the world's population.…”

“…Their study found that only about 3.4% (n = 38) of the articles published concerned East Asian policing. Furthermore, almost half of these publications (n = 17) were written solely by US-affiliated authors, and only about one third (26 out of 78) of the editorial board members of the journals were non-US affiliated [35]. In another study, focusing on four major US juvenile justice journals (Juvenile and Family Court Journal, Journal of Juvenile Justice, UC Davis Journal of Juvenile Law and Policy, and Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice), Kim et al [32] examined 567 papers published between 2000 and 2013 to assess the prevalence of international research, and indicated that only very few of them (n = 17) dealt with juvenile justice issues in nations other than the US.…”

“…As scientific problem-solving increasingly appear to be benefitting from an international scope-that is, attention given to different socio-cultural, economic, and political contexts in a transperspectival manner, and ideas being disseminated across state lines-a growing number of authors from various disciplines necessitates the internationalization of academia (e.g., [29,31,35]. Accordingly, internationalizing local research is becoming an important policy target in most countries [9,22] with researchers increasingly being evaluated via criteria that distinctly promotes international publishing, that is most of the time, publishing in dominant outlets of the mainstream Anglo-American academic world [19,28].…”