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Evaluating Environmental and Resource Economics Journals: A TOP-Curve Approach (2009)

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.

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Download http://reep.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/3/2/270
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/reep/rep002
Publisher Oxford University Press
Repository HighWire Press OAI Repository (United States)
Keywords Symposium: The State of Environmental and Resource Economics Journals and Scholarship
Type TEXT
Language English