Grading Journals in Economics: The ABCS of the ABDC
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Grading Journals in Economics: The ABCs of the ABDC
Date Written: September 1, 2020
Abstract
Many institutions and governments grade academic journals for the evaluation of research. In this paper, we implement a multi‐bibliometric methodology for the evaluation of such a list of journal grades. We examine the grades assigned by the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) for over 750 journals in the fields of economics and statistics. Firstly, we generate up to 48 bibliometric‐based grades for each journal based on the grade distribution implied by the ABDC. Secondly, we categorize the bibliometrics employing a cluster analysis of an interrater agreement statistic. Thirdly, we present a visualization of the consistency of the grading by journal. Finally, we list those journals where the majority of the matched bibliometrics indicate a higher or lower grade than their ABDC grade.
Keywords: Academic Journal Quality Guide, cluster analysis, grade distributions, heat‐maps, journal lists, multi‐bibliometric analysis, research productivity measurement
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