Relationships between expert ratings of business/economics journals and key citation metrics: The impact of size-independence, citing-journal weighting, and subject-area normalization

• Published in: The Journal of academic librarianship Vol. 50; no. 4; p. 102882
• Main Author: Walters, William H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 01.07.2024
• Subjects: Correlation; Journal quality; Journal rankings; Journal ratings; SCImago journal rank; Source normalized impact per publication; Journal rankings; SCImago journal rank; Source normalized impact per publication; Correlation; Journal quality; Journal ratings

This study uses data for >3300 business and economics journals to explore the relationships between 5 subjective (expert) journal ratings and 10 citation metrics including 5IF (5-year Impact Factor), Article Influence (AI) score, CiteScore, Eigenfactor, Impact per Publication, SJR, and SNIP. Over...