Ranking of Agricultural Economics Departments: Influence of Regional Journals, Joint Authorship, and Self‐Citations
利用社会科学引文索引和北美农业经济学期刊数据，分析区域期刊、合著和自引对美国和加拿大73个农业经济学系排名的影响。
Abstract Citations are increasingly used to indicate the quality of an academic unit's work. The set of literature or journals, however, becomes crucial to any ranking scheme. Citations from the broadly based Social Science Citations Index suggest a different ranking of departments than the ranking obtained from a somewhat narrowly focused set of North American journals of agricultural economics. The paper seeks to determine the influence of regional journals, joint authorship, and self‐citations on departmental rankings. Data bases of citations are developed for the faculty of seventy‐three departments of agricultural economics in the United States and Canada.