Ranking economic history journals: a citation-based impact-adjusted analysis

Vaio, Gianfranco Di; Weisdorf, Jacob

doi:10.1007/s11698-009-0039-y

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“…The main source is a dataset collected by Di Vaio and Weisdorf (2010). This includes 657 citations appearing in 217 research articles published in 2007 by a set of international general-interest journals in economic history.…”

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Citation Success: Evidence from Economic History Journal Publications

2009

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This study examines the determinants of citation success among authors who have recently published their work in economic history journals. Besides offering clues about how to improve one's scientific impact, our citation analysis also sheds light on the state of the field of economic history. Consistent with our expectations, we find that full professors, authors appointed at economics and history departments, and authors working in Anglo-Saxon and German countries are more likely to receive citations than other scholars. Long and co-authored articles are also a factor for citation success. We find similar patterns when assessing the same authors' citation success in economics journals. As a novel feature, we demonstrate that the diffusion of research -publication of working papers, as well as conference and workshop presentationshas a first-order positive impact on the citation rate.

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“…The main source is the dataset collected by Di Vaio and Weisdorf (2010 Another potential drawback of the current data is that we do not consider citations made to and from books, book chapters or other non-article items. Given that a fair share of citations made in the social and human sciences are not captured by journal articles (Hicks, 2004), our sample selection is potentially biased.…”

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“…Male authors, full professors, and authors appointed in 1 Whaples (2002) offers a similar analysis, but although he limits his focus to articles in the Journal of Economic History and citations from non-economic history journals. 2 The citations used in this study were collected for the purpose of ranking thirteen international economic history journals using citation-based impact-factor analysis (see Di Vaio and Weisdorf, 2010).…”

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Citation success: Evidence from economic history journal publications

Vaio

Waldenström

Weisdorf

2012

Explorations in Economic History

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This study analyses determinants of citation success among authors publishing in economic history journals. Bibliometric features, like article length and number of authors, are positively correlated with the citation rate up to a certain point. Remarkably, publishing in top-ranked journals hardly affects citations. In regard to author-specific characteristics, male authors, full professors and authors working economics or history departments, and authors employed in Anglo-Saxon countries, are more likely to get cited than others. As a 'shortcut' to citation success, we find that research diffusion, measured by number of presentations and people mentioned in acknowledgement, boosts the citation rate.

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“…More recently, Baten and Muschalli (2012) claim that since the 1990s economic history has developed into a truly global discipline. However, only three economic history journals: Economic History Review, Explorations in Economic History and Journal of Economic History were included in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) in 2007; thus ignoring the bulk of peer reviewed outlets that have economic history as their main field (Di Vaio and Weisdorf, 2010). Evidence documented in cross sectional studies by Di Vaio and Weisdorf (2010) and Di Vaio et al (2012) tell that in spite of this rapid globalization, full professors, authors appointed at economics and history departments, and authors working in Anglo-Saxon and German countries were more likely to receive citations than other scholars.…”

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Online publishing and citation success in the accounting, business and economic history of Spain, 1997–2011

Bátiz‐Lazo¹,

Eskandari²,

Goddard³

2015

Investigaciones de Historia Económica - Economic History Resear

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ResumenEste trabajo examina cuales son los factores determinantes del éxito en el número de citas obtenido por los autores que han publicado vía Internet sobre historia económica, historia de la empresa e historia de la contabilidad española. Nuestra evaluación se aleja del punto de vista dominante basado en análisis de corte transversal, introduciendo una base de datos temporal (15 años) que incluye publicaciones españolas y latinoamericanas sometidas a revisión por pares. Asimismo, se consideran los documentos de trabajo publicados online y se evalúa el papel del español como lengua de acceso a un público internacional. Nuestros resultados sugieren una alta concentración de publicaciones y citas en un reducido número de autores (incluidos los no residentes), así como la relativa importancia de las revistas locales para reforzar el número de citas. Este artículo ofrece indicios sobre cómo mejorar el impacto científico de las publicaciones del área y plantea nuevos puntos de vista sobre la situación de la historia económica y de la empresa en el entorno español, poniendo de manifiesto el papel de España como intermediario en la producción y difusión del conocimiento científico. Palabras clave: difusión del conocimiento, publicaciones electrónicas, índices de citas, España. Código JEL: A11, N0, N8, M4, O31 Abstract This paper examines the determinants of citation success among authors who have published via the Internet on the economic and business history of Spain. It departs from the dominant cross section approach to the quantitative assessment of citation success by enabling a 15-year time series analysis of peer-reviewed Spanish and Latin American outlets. Moreover, it considers working papers published online and assesses the role of Spanish as a medium to communicate with an international audience. Our results suggest a high concentration of publications and citations in a small number of authors (including non-residents) and the importance of local journals in citation success. Besides offering clues about how to improve one's 2 scientific impact, our citation analysis also sheds light on the state of the field of economic and business history in Spanish economic circles and attests the role of Spain as an intermediate country in the production and diffusion of scientific knowledge.

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Ranking economic history journals: a citation-based impact-adjusted analysis

Cited by 30 publications

References 12 publications

Citation Success: Evidence from Economic History Journal Publications

Citation Success: Evidence from Economic History Journal Publications

Citation success: Evidence from economic history journal publications

Online publishing and citation success in the accounting, business and economic history of Spain, 1997–2011

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