The importance of ABS 2 journals in finance scholarship: Evidence from a bibliometric case study

John W. Goodell, Marco Ercole Oriani, Andrea Paltrinieri and Ritesh Patel

Finance Research Letters, 2023, vol. 55, issue PA

Abstract: Recently among finance academic journals, it has become no longer the case that the highest externally rated journals are necessarily the most cited. Through the lens of a bibliometric case study, we highlight the integral contribution of ABS 2 articles to bibliometric-based conclusions. We demonstrate that selecting ABS2+ versus ABS3+ significantly changes results. Conceptually, we argue that as bibliometric analysis is citation based, a priori cutoffs for article inclusion should also be journal citation based, rather than external journal rankings based. Now that several ABS 2 journals are among the highest cited journals in finance, reconsiderations are needed.

Keywords: Bibliometric methodology; Bibliometric analysis; Journal rankings; ABS; Academic Journal Guide (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G11 G12 G15 G20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2023.103828

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