Citation analysis and peer ranking of Australian social science journals

Authors:
Gaby Haddow;Paul Genoni
Affiliations:
Department of Information Studies, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia 6845;Department of Information Studies, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia 6845
Venue:
Scientometrics
Year:
2010

Citing 3
Cited 2

Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation (Information Science & Knowledge Management)

Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation (Information Science & Knowledge Management)
Impact of data sources on citation counts and rankings of LIS faculty: Web of science versus scopus and google scholar

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The DCI index: Discounted cumulated impact-based research evaluation

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Citation analyses were performed for Australian social science journals to determine the differences between data drawn from Web of Science and Scopus. These data were compared with the tier rankings assigned by disciplinary groups to the journals for the purposes of a new research assessment model, Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), due to be implemented in 2010. In addition, citation-based indicators including an extended journal impact factor, the h-index, and a modified journal diffusion factor, were calculated to assess whether subsequent analyses influence the ranking of journals. The findings suggest that the Scopus database provides higher number of citations for more of the journals. However, there appears to be very little association between the assigned tier ranking of journals and their rank derived from citations data. The implications for Australian social science researchers are discussed in relation to the use of citation analysis in the ERA.