Impact-adjusted citations as a measure of journal quality

Rabah AMIR

No 2002074, CORE Discussion Papers from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Abstract: We provide a simple theoretical foundation, based on the theory of Markov chains, for the objective empirical procedure for journal ranking devised by Liebowitz and Palmer.An elementary characterization is derived that substantially clarifies the meaning, scope and underlying intuition of the procedure, and allows a precise illustrative discussion of its strengths and weaknesses. Several suggestions are made to correct its shortcomings, which may prove useful in much-needed future rankings. The present analysis suggests that asuitably amended version of the LP procedure would emerge as a highly adequate measure for ranking journals.

Keywords: journal ranking; impact-adjusted citations; stationary Markov chains; invariant distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 B40 C40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-12-01
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