Journal editorship index for assessing the scholarly impact of academic institutions: An empirical analysis in the field of economics

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Highlights：

• A Journal Editorship Index (JEI) is constructed for assessing the scholarly impact of academic institutions.

• The JEI considers the influence of journal rate, editor title, and board size.

• The 8640 editor members from the 211 economics journals in the ABS Journal Guide are collected for the empirical research.

• The evaluation results from the JEI can provide a supplement to the current ranking results of academic institutions scholarly impacts.

• Sensitivity analysis indicates that journal ratings make the biggest influence on the JEI.

摘要

•A Journal Editorship Index (JEI) is constructed for assessing the scholarly impact of academic institutions.•The JEI considers the influence of journal rate, editor title, and board size.•The 8640 editor members from the 211 economics journals in the ABS Journal Guide are collected for the empirical research.•The evaluation results from the JEI can provide a supplement to the current ranking results of academic institutions scholarly impacts.•Sensitivity analysis indicates that journal ratings make the biggest influence on the JEI.

论文关键词：Institutional assessment,Scholarly impact,Journal editorship index,Editorial board

论文评审过程：Received 2 May 2017, Revised 14 March 2018, Accepted 24 March 2018, Available online 11 April 2018, Version of Record 11 April 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.03.008