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    Just How Good are the Top Three Journals in Finance? An Assessment Based on Quantity and Quality Citations (2014)

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    http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10083
    
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    University of Canterbury. Department of Economics and Finance
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    Chang, C-L.
    McAleer, M.
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    Abstract

    The paper is concerned with ranking academic journal quality and research impact in Finance, based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science citations database. The paper analyses the 89 leading international journals in the ISI category of Business, Finance, using quantifiable Research Assessment Measures (RAMs). The analysis highlights the similarities and differences in various RAMs, all of which are based on alternative transformations of journal citations and impact. The paper calculates the harmonic mean of the ranks of up to 16 RAMs. It is shown that emphasizing 2YIF to the exclusion of other informative RAMs can lead to a misleading evaluation of journal quality and impact relative to the harmonic mean of the ranks. The analysis of the 89 ISI journals in Finance makes it clear that there are three leading journals in Finance, namely Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies, which form an exclusive club in terms of the RAMs that measure journal quality and impact based on alternative measures of journal citations. The next two journals in Finance in terms of overall quality and impact are Journal of Accounting and Economics and Journal of Monetary Economics.

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    Chang, C-L., McAleer, M., (2014) Just How Good are the Top Three Journals in Finance? An Assessment Based on Quantity and Quality Citations. University of Canterbury. 34pp..
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    Keywords
    Research assessment measures; Impact factor; IFI; C3PO; PI-BETA; STAR; Eigenfactor; Article Influence; h-index; 5YD2; ICQ; ESC; harmonic mean of the ranks; finance; journal rankings.
    ANZSRC Fields of Research
    38 - Economics::3801 - Applied economics::380107 - Financial economics
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    https://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651

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