Audience Matters: A Study of How Authors Select Educational Journals

Cheung, Chi‐Kim

doi:10.3860/taper.v17i2.731

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“…Examples of coercive mechanisms relevant to this investigation include stability, securing better positions, or acquiring research funds. Thus, under the coercive mechanism, motivation to publish is a response to external pressures, such as research assessment criteria, imposed by employing institutions and individual researchers (Cheung 2008) or an attempt to gain legitimacy among target audiences (Luukonen, 1992).…”

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Performance-based Incentives and the Behavior of Accounting Academics: Responding to Changes

Moya

Prior

Pérez

2014

Accounting Education

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“…Researchers tend to imitate their colleagues to gain recognition, and the legitimacy incentive explains mimetic pressures (Luukonen, 1992;Cheung 2008). …”

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Performance-based Incentives and the Behavior of Accounting Academics: Responding to Changes

Moya

Prior

Pérez

2014

Accounting Education

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“…Despite this, journal citation indices continue to be used in many important decisions, including which journals to access and read (Duy and Vaughan 2006;Kelland and Young 1994;Schein 2000), where to submit manuscripts (Cheung 2008), which researchers to fund and appoint (Adam 2002;Fassoulaki et al 2001;Fuyuno and Cyranoski 2006), and which institutions produce higher quality research (Davis and Royle 1996). It is important to consider to what extent the particular journal citation index used might influence such decision making.…”

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Correlation between the Journal Impact Factor and three other journal citation indices

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To determine the degree of correlation among journal citation indices that reflect the average number of citations per article, the most recent journal ratings were downloaded from the websites publishing four journal citation indices: the Institute of Scientific Information's journal impact factor index, Eigenfactor's article influence index, SCImago's journal rank index and Scopus' trend line index. Correlations were determined for each pair of indices, using ratings from all journals that could be identified as having been rated on both indices. Correlations between the six possible pairings of the four indices were tested with Spearman's rho. Within each of the six possible pairings, the prevalence of identifiable errors was examined in a random selection of 10 journals and among the 10 most discordantly ranked journals on the two indices. The number of journals that could be matched within each pair of indices ranged from 1,857 to 6,508. Paired ratings for all journals showed strong to very strong correlations, with Spearman's rho values ranging from 0.61 to 0.89, all p \ 0.001. Identifiable errors were more common among scores for journals that had very discordant ranks on a pair of indices. These four journal citation indices were significantly correlated, providing evidence of convergent validity (i.e. they reflect the same underlying construct of average citability per article in a journal). Discordance in the ranking of a journal on two indices was in some cases due to an error in one index.

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“…However, like self-citation, impact factors are criticized since they can be influenced and biased by many factors (Kurmis 2003). Nonetheless, journal citation indexes are still used in many important decisions, such as which journals should be consulted (Duy and Vaughan 2006), to which journals manuscripts should be sent (Cheung 2008), which researchers can be financially supported (Fuyuno and Cyranoski 2006) or which institutions produce high (Davis andRoyle 1996, Baeza 2010). Another way of assessing influence and relevance of research productivity is Altmetrics (Adie and Roe 2013).…”

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Paper-based productivity ranking of forestry Chilean institutions

Acuña¹,

Espinosa²,

Cancino³

2013

Bosque (Valdivia)

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SUMMARYUsing the information from the two main online scientific databases, Scopus and Web of Science (WoS), the scientific productivity of Chilean research institutions associated with the forestry sector was analyzed for the period 2000-2011. The following factors were analyzed: number of publications indexed in WoS and Scopus, citation frequency, impact indexes, h-Index, international contribution, self-citing and subject area of publications. The articles selected indicated affiliation either to faculties that offered undergraduate Forestry Programs in March 2012 or to public and private institutions associated with the forestry sector. Using this information, a ranking of scientific productivity for each institution was established according to the number of publications registered in WoS. Results show that the universities which offered Forestry Programs published 515 articles in WoS indexed journals and 625 in Scopus, corresponding to 88.5 and 85.0 % of the publications in the period, respectively. Universidad de Concepción, Universidad Austral de Chile and Universidad de Chile concentrate more than two-thirds of WoS and Scopus-indexed articles; the number of publications per researcher indicates that Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Universidad de Concepción are in first and second place followed by Universidad Austral de Chile and Universidad de Chile. Most publications (more than 80 %) are concentrated between the years 2006 and 2011. The main research subjects in

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Audience Matters: A Study of How Authors Select Educational Journals

Cited by 16 publications

References 9 publications

Performance-based Incentives and the Behavior of Accounting Academics: Responding to Changes

Performance-based Incentives and the Behavior of Accounting Academics: Responding to Changes

Correlation between the Journal Impact Factor and three other journal citation indices

Paper-based productivity ranking of forestry Chilean institutions

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