Measuring Research Impact: Disciplinary Advocacy & Debates

Accounting

• Sangster, A. (2015). You cannot judge a book by its cover: The problems with journal rankings. Accounting Education, 24(3), 175-186.

Biology

• Fire, M., & Guestrin, C. (2019). Over-optimization of academic publishing metrics: Observing Goodhart’s Law in action. Gigascience, 8(6). doi:10.1093/gigascience/giz053
• Ginieis, M., & Li, X. (2020). Ranking of sustainability journals using the author affiliation index and comparison to other journal metrics. Sustainability, 12(3). doi:10.3390/su12031104

Biomedical Sciences

• San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) initiated by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) together with a group of editors and publishers of scholarly journals, . . . A number of themes run through these recommendations: -­‐ the need to eliminate the use of journal-based metrics, such as Journal Impact factors, in funding, appointment, and promotion considerations;-­‐ the need to assess research on its own merits rather than on the basis of the journal in which the research is published; . . .

Communication

• Levine, T. R. (2010). Rankings and trends in citation patterns of communication journals. Communication Education, 59(1), 41-51.

Economics

• Ranking Economics Departments in a Contested Discipline: A Bibliometric Approach to Quality Equality Between Theoretically Distinct Subdisciplines Lee, Frederic S., Therese C. Grijalva, and Clifford Nowell. "Ranking Economics Departments in a Contested Discipline: A Bibliometric Approach to Quality Equality Between Theoretically Distinct Subdisciplines." The American Journal of Economics and Sociology 69, no. 5 (2010): 1345-375. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27916901.

Management

• Leonhard Dobusch and Maximilian Heimstadt. (2019). Predatory publishing in management research: A call for open peer review. Management Learning 50(5): 607-619.

Marketing

• Steward, M. D., & Lewis, B. R. (2010). A comprehensive analysis of marketing journal rankings. Journal of Marketing Education, 32(1), 75-92.

Mathematics

• American Mathematical Soceity - 2009 Statement Citation and impact in Mathematical Publications The Culture of Research and Scholarship in Mathematics: Citation and Impact in Mathematical Publications For a variety of reasons, mathematicians have not embraced the impact factor as a reliable indicator of a journal's quality . . .

Nursing

• Gagliardi, A. R., Umoquit, M., Webster, F., & Dobrow, M. (2014). Qualitative research publication rates in top-ranked nursing journals: 2002-2011. Nursing Research, 63(3), 221-227.

Political Science

• Ranking Political Science Journals: Reputational and Citational Approaches Giles, Michael WView Profile; Garand, James CView Profile. PS: Political Science & Politics40.4 (Oct 2007): 741-751. Table 1 various impact scores by political science journal 2007
• Journals in the Discipline: A Report on a New Survey of American Political Scientists Garand, James CView Profile; Giles, Michael WView Profile. PS: Political Science & Politics36.2 (Apr 2003): 293-308. Table 1 Political scientists’ impact, evaluation, and familiarity ratings of 115 selected journals 2002

Psychology

• Fraley, R. C., & Vazire, S. (2014). The N-pact factor: Evaluating the quality of empirical journals with respect to sample size and statistical power. PLoS ONE, 9(10), 12.

• Use Cabells to find impact factor, acceptance rate, and other journal information. It includes Whitelist 11108 journals and Blacklist 11537 journals to this date May 2019.
• Beall's list of Predatory Publishers
• Beall's list of Predatory Journals

• Controversial website that lists ‘predatory’ publishers shuts down
• Colin Firth the neuroscientist? Real-life role reveals ethical dilemma in science
• Aust N Z J. Fields of interest and influence: A new method for sourcing and ranking journals in psychiatry. Psychiatry August 2011 vol. 45 no. 8 614-618
• Baum, J. A. C. (2011). Free-riding on power laws: Questioning the validity of the impact factor as a measure of research quality in organization studies. Organization, 18(4), 449-466.
• Everett, J. E., & Pecotich, A. (1993). Citation analysis mapping of journals in applied and clinical psychology. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 23(9), 750-766.
• Hodge, D. R., & Lacasse, J. R. (2011). Ranking disciplinary journals with the google scholar H-index: A new tool for constructing cases for tenure, promotion, and other professional decisions. Journal of Social Work Education, 47(3), 579-596.
• Journal metrics: what's in a number?. Nat Cell Biol 19, 875 (2017). https://doi-org.cmich.idm.oclc.org/10.1038/ncb3589
• Larivière, V., Kiermer, V., MacCallum, C. J., McNutt, M., Patterson, M., Pulverer, B., Swaminathan, S., Taylor, S., & Curry, S. (2016). A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions. doi:10.1101/062109.
• Huw Morris, Charles Harvey, Aidan Kelly, (2009) "Journal rankings and the ABS Journal Quality Guide", Management Decision, Vol. 47 Iss: 9, pp.1441 - 1451
• Pendleberry, D. A. (2009). The use and misuse of journal metrics and other citation indicators. Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis, 57(1), 1-11. doi:10.1007/s00005-009-0008-y
• Karen A. Sullivan, Joseph J. Ryan. Essential Books and Journals in Clinical Neuropsychology: An Australian Perspective, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology Vol. 26, Iss. 2, 2004
• Rowlinson, M., Harvey, C., Kelly, A., & Morris, H. (2011). The use and abuse of journal quality lists. Organization, 18(4), 443-446.