Journal impact factors and month of publication

Vasilios Kosteas ()

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 135, issue C, 77-79

Abstract: A growing literature examines the reliability of commonly used metrics for journal quality, such as journal impact factors. The present paper shows that month of publication can have a significant impact on the number of times an article is cited in the two years following publication. Combined with existing research, this finding suggests economics departments should rely less on these commonly used measures of journal quality when making tenure and promotion decisions and focus more effort on direct assessments of the faculty member’s work. Given the shift towards online dissemination, the findings also suggest publishers should consider moving to a more frequent publication schedule in order to disseminate the research in a more timely fashion.

Keywords: Impact factors; Economics journals; Month of publication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 J2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176515003171
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:135:y:2015:i:c:p:77-79

DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.08.010

Access Statistics for this article

Economics Letters is currently edited by Economics Letters Editorial Office

More articles in Economics Letters from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().