Evaluating Environmental and Resource Economics Journals: A TOP-Curve Approach

Sandra Rousseau, Tom Verbeke and Ronald Rousseau

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2009, vol. 3, issue 2, 270-287

Abstract: This article applies an alternative approach to the measurement of scholarly quality, namely the use of TOP-curves, in order to rank journals in the field of environmental and resource economics. This measure summarizes the incidence, intensity, and inequality of these journals' highly cited articles. Moreover, TOP-curves allow analysts to rank journals according to TOP-dominance. The journal ranking based on the TOP-dominance criterion does not match the ranking based on the journals' impact factors. Indeed, TOP-curves provide more detailed information on the relative ranking of journals since they take into account the composition and the distribution of citations within the top group. Copyright 2009, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2009
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