Journal gatekeepers indicator-based top universities of the world, of Europe and of 29 countries — A pilot study

Braun, Tibor; Dióspatonyi, Ildikó; Zádor, Erika; Zsindely, Sándor

doi:10.1007/s11192-007-1843-4

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“…This point was stressed by some empirical papers which ranked academic institutions on the basis of their representation on the editorial boards of top journals (Braun et al 2007;Gibbons and Fish 1991;Kaufman 1984); Braun and Diospatonyi (2005) proposed to rank nations according to the strength of their research systems using quantitative indicators of the presence of national editor in international journals. Interestingly, Gibbons and Fish (1991) found that there is a correlation between the ranking of institutions based on the membership of their affiliated scholars on editorial boards and those based on citations and publications in top journals.…”

Section: Editorial Boardsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interlocking editorship. A network analysis of the links between economic journals

Baccini

Barabesi

2009

Scientometrics

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The exploratory analysis developed in this paper relies on the hypothesis that each editor possesses some power in the definition of the editorial policy of her journal. Consequently if the same scholar sits on the board of editors of two journals, those journals could have some common elements in their editorial policies. The proximity of the editorial policies of two scientific journals can be assessed by the number of common editors sitting on their boards. A database of all editors of ECONLIT journals is used. The structure of the network generated by interlocking editorship is explored by applying the instruments of network analysis. Evidence has been found of a compact network containing different components. This is interpreted as the result of a plurality of perspectives about the appropriate methods for the investigation of problems and the construction of theories within the domain of economics

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Section: Editorial Boardsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interlocking editorship. A network analysis of the links between economic journals

Baccini

Barabesi

2009

Scientometrics

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“…Individual institutions and researchers are now classified on the basis of scientific productivity, usually established using the number of papers, the impact factors for the journals and the number of citations (see, e.g., Bishop, Gillet, Holliday, & Willet, 2003;Braun, 1999;Hirsch, 2005;Schreiber, 2008;Winkler, 2007). However, as pointed out by some authors (Braun, Dióspatonyi, Zádor, & Zsindely, 2007), attempts at ranking institutions and scientists have sometimes produced disparate and inappropriate results. In fact, the difficulty is to clearly understand what good science is and to know if data reflects quality.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Science indicators and science patterns in Europe

Almeida

Pais

Formosinho

2009

Journal of Informetrics

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a b s t r a c tIn this communication we perform an analysis of European science, investigating the way countries are joined in clusters according to their similarity. An extremely clear pattern arises, suggesting that geographical and cultural factors strongly influence the scientific fabric of these countries. Although it is seen that one of the major factors behind Science in Europe is, apparently, geographical proximity, bilateral cooperation between countries cannot fully account for the respective similarity. Long-term policies, planning and investment are also visible in the results.

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“…In academia, the editorial boards of scholarly journals have an important influence on the quality and relevance of published research (Garcia-Carpintero et al 2010); 'it is considered that the critical mentality and decisions of editorial boards protect the social and intellectual integrity of science' (Braun andDiospatonyi 2005a: 1548). Editorial boards are important to the entire academic world, and there seems to be a possible relationship between a university's representation on a journal's editorial board and its scientific output in that journal.…”

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A Granger Causality Test of the Causal Relationship Between the Number of Editorial Board Members and the Scientific Output of Universities in the Field of Chemistry

Wang¹

2019

Current Science

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Editorial board members, who are considered the gatekeepers of scientific journals, play an important role in academia, and may directly or indirectly affect the scientific output of a university. In this article, we used the quantile regression method among a sample of 1,387 university in chemistry to characterize the correlation between the number of editorial board members and the scientific output of their universities. Furthermore, we used time-series data and the Granger causality test to explore the causal relationship between the number of editorial board members and the number of articles of some top universities. Our results suggest that the number of editorial board members is positively and significantly related to the scientific output (as measured by the number of articles, total number of citations, citations per paper, and h index) of their universities. However, the Granger causality test results suggest that the causal relationship between the number of editorial board members and the number of articles of some top universities is not obvious.Combining these findings with the results of qualitative interviews with editorial board members, we discuss the causal relationship between the number of editorial board members and the scientific output of their universities.

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Journal gatekeepers indicator-based top universities of the world, of Europe and of 29 countries — A pilot study

Cited by 22 publications

References 11 publications

Interlocking editorship. A network analysis of the links between economic journals

Interlocking editorship. A network analysis of the links between economic journals

Science indicators and science patterns in Europe

A Granger Causality Test of the Causal Relationship Between the Number of Editorial Board Members and the Scientific Output of Universities in the Field of Chemistry

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