کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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1009936 | 1482507 | 2012 | 10 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
This paper proposes an alternative metric to assess the relative influence journals have on research by using an influence ratio measure. Hospitality and tourism journals are used as a case study. Influence ratio enables a suite of journals to be evaluated through the calculation of a score for each journal that reflects the share of citations and the share of papers it produces against all citations and all papers in the set. A higher influence ratio score signifies that a journal is proportionately more influential, for it generates a greater share of citations than the share of papers published would suggest. The study evaluated three sets of hospitality and tourism journals (17 hospitality, 41 tourism and a combined set of 54 hospitality and tourism journals). The study illustrates the efficacy of using the influence ratio metric. A small number of journals in each field play a disproportionately strong influence in informing scholarship, with a long tail of relatively less influential journals observed.
► A new framework to access journal contribution to scholarship is proposed.
► The influence of journals is evaluated by comparing the share of citations to the share of papers published.
► Discrete sets of influential hospitality and tourism journals are identified.
Journal: International Journal of Hospitality Management - Volume 31, Issue 3, September 2012, Pages 962–971