Qualitative Ratings of Human Development Journals

Peery, J. Craig; Adams, Gerald R.

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“…The questionnaire of Peery and Adams [1981] was translated into French and German and distributed to 112 randomly selected members (which represented an average of 30% of the total members) of the devel opmental sections in each of the national psychologi cal associations of France, Germany, and Great Brit ain. After two reminders, we had a return rate of 57.1 % for France.…”

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“…Specifically, the questions were: (1) 'List the (2) 'Rank order the list from question 1 from 1 to 10 (1 = best)'. As defined by Peery and Adams [1981], the first question should measure the 'visibility' of a journal, and the second question the perceived quality of the journals. We also asked for age, sex, highest degree earned and professional specialties.…”

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“…These methodological limitations include is sues of subject and citation sampling, as well as confounding effects of personal familiarity and degree of speciality on quality ratings [Boor, 1973;Levin and Kratochwill, 1976;Peery and Adams, 1981;Porter. 1976;Rushton and Roediger, 1978].…”

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“…Although the findings of this study are limited by the nature of the sample (a group of individuals of various subspecialties united by their interest in child development, as opposed to life span devel opment or gerontology), they are instructive about the current state of the American scene. For the present study we adopted the methods of Peery and Adams [1981], but enlarged the sample to include developmentalists in the Western European countries of France, Great Britain, and West Germany. In addition to providing an initial view of inter national information distribution, our pur pose was to compare the ranking of develop mental journals among the European coun tries on the one hand, and between the Euro peans and their American colleagues [Peery and Adams, 1981] on the other.…”

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“…For the present study we adopted the methods of Peery and Adams [1981], but enlarged the sample to include developmentalists in the Western European countries of France, Great Britain, and West Germany. In addition to providing an initial view of inter national information distribution, our pur pose was to compare the ranking of develop mental journals among the European coun tries on the one hand, and between the Euro peans and their American colleagues [Peery and Adams, 1981] on the other. Further, we were interested in the role national, interna tional, and foreign journals play in each com munity of developmentalists, and subse quently what conclusions may be drawn about the national and international commu nication flow in each country.…”

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Qualitative Ratings of Human Development Journals in France, Great Britain and West Germany

Müller-Brettel¹,

Dixon²

1985

Human Development

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The perceived visibility and quality of human development journals in France, Great Britain, and West Germany was evaluated. Following the method employed by Peery and Adams [Human Development 24: 312–319, 1981], two questionnaire items were distributed to members of the developmental sections of the respective national psychological associations. In the interest of assessing international information flow, the results were compared to those obtained by Peery and Adams with an American sample. Overall, the dominance of English-language (and especially American) journals is notable. Generally, the European respondents nominated either journals from their own countries or English-language journals. Achieving particular international prominence were Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Human Development, and Journal of ExperimentalChild Psychology. Thus, by this measure, there is an apparent lack of international information distribution among these European communities and an unmistakable one-way information flow from American developmental psychologists to their European colleagues.

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Müller-Brettel¹,

Dixon²

1985

Human Development

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Periodical Usefulness: The U.S. Logistics Educator Perspective

Gibson

Hanna

2003

J of Business Logistics

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Logistics professionals face a challenge today -how to best allocate precious budgetary resources and reading time to a growing array of logistics-related publications. Time-challenged members of the logistics community would benefit from the knowledge of what publications are widely used and found to be of value. This article generates insight into these issues and provides guidance for individuals in search of valuable information tools.Unlike traditional studies of this nature, which base evaluations on the academic prestige or the research impact of periodicals (e.g., Heischmidt and Gordon 1993;Howard and Nikolai 1983), this study focuses on functional usefulness. Certainly, educators will have a direct interest in their peers' ratings of the periodicals in terms of research, outreach, and teaching merits. Additionally, logistics managers can use the rating results to help identify appropriate information resources for analogous industry activities (e.g., employee training and personal professional development).The analysis of periodical usefulness is presented in four major sections. The first two sections lay the foundation for the study, discussing the ideal structure of a periodical ranking study and how the current study was designed to attain an accurate assessment of logistics periodical usefulness from the target population. The third section reveals results of the study, including periodical ratings, group comparisons, a bias analysis, and usefulness index scores. The final section presents insights gleaned from the study, its potential uses by key constituents, and its caveats. BACKGROUNDThe evaluation of periodicals is neither a trivial topic nor one of exclusive interest to educators. Studies providing a benchmark of specialty periodicals can be used for a variety of purposes, in addition to those described above. The evaluation results can be used by practitioners to become more aware of valuable resources and information outlets (Fawcett, Vellenga, and Truitt 1995), university administrators to assess faculty research performance (Hull and Wright 1990), and periodical publishers to keep their editorial objectives and content in sync with reader needs (Zivney and Reichenstein 1994).

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Journal quality: The problem of size.

Meacham¹

1984

American Psychologist

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practices. That is, overall, 95% of employers would prefer to hire graduates of APA-approved programs, and this percentage is even higher for academic than for applied positions (95% and 87%, respectively). The percentages for actual hiring and preferred hiring for applied positions are identical (both 87%).At the present time little is known about who advertises jobs in the Monitor and who does not. It is possible that the positions advertised may be systematically biased toward a preference for graduates from APA-approved programs, thus accounting for our results. We suggest that future research focus on the APA-approved/ non-APA-approved variable as it relates to other means of obtaining employment (e.g., word of mouth, local newspaper advertisement, or specialinterest-group publications) from the perspective of both employers and job applicants.This research was completed while both authors were predoctoral interns at Malcolm Bliss Mental Health Center. The authors would like to express their appreciation to an anonymous reviewer for comments on a previous draft of this comment.

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Qualitative Ratings of Human Development Journals

Cited by 12 publications

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Qualitative Ratings of Human Development Journals in France, Great Britain and West Germany

Qualitative Ratings of Human Development Journals in France, Great Britain and West Germany

Periodical Usefulness: The U.S. Logistics Educator Perspective

Journal quality: The problem of size.

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