“…They have grown in popularity over the past 10 years, as academics themselves have sought to develop rating and ranking systems as an alternative to lists produced by external agencies. Peer assessment has been used in operations management (Soteriou, Hadjinicola, & Patsia, 1999), MIS (Mylonopoulos & Theoharakis, 2001), construction management (Wing, 1997), international business (Dubois & Reeb, 2000), and tourism and hospitality (Hsu & Yeung, 2003;Pechlaner, Zehrer, Matzler, & Abfalter, 2004;Schmidgall, Woods, & Rutherford, 1996;Sheldon, 1990). The large amount of interest from the tourism community reflects a collective frustration at both having to justify the academic credibility of tourism as a field of study and the failure of other rating systems to include a sufficiently large sample of journals.…”