Journal Rankings by Health Management Faculty Members: Are There Differences by Rank, Leadership Status, or Area of Expertise?

Journal rankings and directions for future research in health care management: A global perspective

“…5 Additionally, as noted in prior research, this approach helps minimize order-effect bias, which occurs when the order in which a list is presented influences the ranking results. 5,9 Respondents were asked to list up to five journals which they considered to be the most influential academic journals in the field of health care management. Given the open-ended nature of the question, responses were coded for consistency.…”

“…The most recent health care management journal ranking study applied a similar approach to journal rankings from the perspective of US-based academicians. 5 We built upon this prior work by gathering information about perceived journal prominence in health care management from a global perspective. Though a large array of journals may be recognized from a given list, we suspect that journals provided through unaided recall are likely to be those most frequently used and read by faculty rather than those they may recognize from a list.…”

“…Prior research suggests that occasionally an assessment should be made of journal rankings in the field of health care management. [1][2][3][4][5] These studies have gathered expert opinion on various attributes such as journal knowledge and quality, but the respondents have typically been US faculty, or participants of a US-based conference or professional organization. Previous studies evaluating journals have found that many of the ''top'' journals in a field tend to be ethnocentric with largely American authors and editors.…”

Global Ranking of Management- and Clinical-Centered eHealth Journals

“…Inquiry into the nature of academic journals has always persisted in all scientific domains (Ferratt, Gorman, Kanet, & Salisbury, 2007;Menachemi, Hogan, DelliFraine, & Flaks, 2015;Saarela, Kärkkäinen, Lahtonen, & Rossi, 2016). Particularly, we need to understand the nature of journals in recently founded disciplines because journals contain the disciplines' body of knowledge, influence their identity, and even set their future directions.…”

“…However, two interacting yet different areas (one concerning management ITrelated issues and another pertaining to clinical topics) represent the e-health domain (Oh, Rizo, Enkin, & Jadad, 2005). Recently, Menachemi et al (2015) empirically demonstrated that researchers from different healthcare subdisciplines rank healthcare journals differently and that similar behavior may exist in the ehealth domain. Thus, we need two distinct ranking lists to ensure that survey respondents "compare apples to apples".…”