Do faculty journal selections correspond to objective indicators of citation impact? Results for 20 academic departments at Manhattan College

Walters, William H.; Markgren, Susanne

doi:10.1007/s11192-018-2972-7

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“…Although wanted/not-wanted status is only moderately correlated with citation impact, the faculty in most departments did select the highest-impact journals in their fields. That is, high citation impact is a good indicator of wanted status even though the relationship between impact and wanted status grows weaker at lower levels of the journal hierarchy (Walters & Markgren, 2019).…”

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“…Manhattan College is typical of many institutions in its size, mission, reputation, selectivity, student characteristics, teaching/research focus, and library budget. The curriculum is not unusual except for an emphasis on engineering, which accounts for 30% of enrolled undergraduates, and the faculty's journal selections include most of the high-impact journals in fields typically taught at U.S. undergraduate colleges (Walters & Markgren, 2019). Moreover, more than half the library's journal/database budget is spent on resources acquired through WALDO and LYRASIS, two of the largest library consortia in the United States.…”

Section: Limitations Of the Studymentioning

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Can differences in publisher size account for the relatively low prices of the journals available to master’s universities through commercial publishers’ databases? The importance of price discrimination and substitution effects

Walters

2022

Scientometrics

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Using price quotes and invoices for thousands of full-text databases and single-journal subscriptions, this study confirms that for a typical master’s university, the journals acquired through commercial publishers’ databases cost substantially less than those acquired through the databases of scholarly societies, universities, and other nonprofits. Moreover, the lower prices of commercial publishers’ journals cannot be readily attributed to publisher size (number of journals published) or to any of several other explanatory variables. There is a weak, direct association between publisher size and price among the for-profit journals but a stronger, inverse relationship between publisher size and price among the nonprofit journals. These findings, along with the results of previous research, suggest that resource providers may have incentives to keep prices low due to the collection development strategies adopted by many teaching-oriented colleges and universities. If the library’s goal is to hold a sufficient number of high-quality journals rather than to provide immediate access to every wanted journal, particular journals and databases may be regarded as substitutes even when each product provides unique content. Many U.S. bachelor’s and master’s institutions have goals different from those of the major research universities, and commercial publishers (along with some of the larger nonprofits) seem to recognize this when setting and negotiating prices.

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Can differences in publisher size account for the relatively low prices of the journals available to master’s universities through commercial publishers’ databases? The importance of price discrimination and substitution effects

Walters

2022

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“…The correlations between selection status (wanted or not) and Eigenfactor (which represents the citation impact of the journal as a whole) were lowest for biology, the health professions, engineering, organizational leadership and psychology, where the faculty tended to select more practice-oriented journals. 10 One advantage of selecting individual journals rather than full-text databases is that it allows for the consideration of fundamental principles that are more difficult to take into account when multiple journals are evaluated together. In the Manhattan College case, we developed our Stage 1 procedures with five principles in mind:…”

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A two-stage approach to serials review: minimizing journal costs through title-by-title selection with package-based acquisition

Walters

Markgren

2021

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Many academic libraries evaluate their journal holdings with an emphasis on deselection rather than selection. Likewise, many consider each journal package or full-text database as a whole, through indicators such as cost per download, without explicitly accounting for the quality of the journals included in each package. Better results can be achieved through a two-stage process that first identifies the 'wanted journals' most important to the university's teaching and research programs, then objectively determines the most cost-effective means of acquiring those journals. Our procedure combines an emphasis on the quality of individual journals with an iterative database/subscription selection method that minimizes costs and avoids any bias toward the journals initially held by the library. Although the process involves considerable effort, it can be used to increase the library's holdings of wanted journals without increasing total expenditure, or to maintain the number of wanted journals while reducing total expenditure. Our results also demonstrate that title-by-title selection of journals is not inconsistent with acquisition through full-text databases.

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“…Two important factors stand out when selecting a journal for the submission of a manuscript: (1) the journal impact factor; and, (2) the fit between the journal and the topic of the manuscript (van Teijlingen & Hundley, 2002;Knight & Steinbach, 2008;Walters & Markgren, 2019). Currently, the impact factor is often considered as a benchmark for the prestige or reputation of a journal and it is used to rank and to compare journal quality, based on the premise that a higher citation rate will indicate higher quality (Klinger et al, 2005;Kurmis, 2003).…”

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Selecting the appropriate leading journal in Hospitality and Tourism research: a guide based on the topic-journal fit and the JCR impact factor

Barrera

2022

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Selecting the appropriate academic journal is a priority issue for researchers in the process of publishing a manuscript. If researchers could quantify the research topic in terms of its fit with the journal requirements before the submission of a paper, then the assessment of journal suitability could be much easier. Basing any decision on journal impact factors alone might obviously result in a mismatch, eventual rejection and a consequent loss of time. Taking the twelve leading Tourism and Hospitality journals as a reference, the main research topics mentioned in the abstracts of 20,381 articles are identified, using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation algorithm and other text-mining techniques running the R programming language. Subsequently, a quantitative measure of the fit of the research topics in each journal is offered according to their frequency of occurrence. The results suggested that the importance of the topic-journal fit with respect to the impact factor depended on the variance of the fits among the journals. Finally, a guide of the most suitable journals for the topics is presented, based on the JCR impact factor and the fit of the topic. Some recommendations are likewise offered on the use of this methodology and its limitations.

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Do faculty journal selections correspond to objective indicators of citation impact? Results for 20 academic departments at Manhattan College

Cited by 14 publications

References 34 publications

Can differences in publisher size account for the relatively low prices of the journals available to master’s universities through commercial publishers’ databases? The importance of price discrimination and substitution effects

Can differences in publisher size account for the relatively low prices of the journals available to master’s universities through commercial publishers’ databases? The importance of price discrimination and substitution effects

A two-stage approach to serials review: minimizing journal costs through title-by-title selection with package-based acquisition

Selecting the appropriate leading journal in Hospitality and Tourism research: a guide based on the topic-journal fit and the JCR impact factor

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