How robust are journal rankings based on the impact factor? Evidence from the economic sciences
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Highlights:
• The distribution of citations to articles in a journal is skewed.
• We analyze the robustness of journal rankings based on the impact factor with respect to this skewness.
• Journal rankings in economics are robust after excluding the top, the top 5 and top 10 cited articles.
摘要
Highlights•The distribution of citations to articles in a journal is skewed.•We analyze the robustness of journal rankings based on the impact factor with respect to this skewness.•Journal rankings in economics are robust after excluding the top, the top 5 and top 10 cited articles.
论文关键词:Impact factor,Ranking,Skewness,Economics journals
论文评审过程:Received 6 August 2014, Revised 29 August 2014, Accepted 1 September 2014, Available online 4 October 2014.
论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2014.09.001