Network Bibliometrics of Public Policy Journals
基于期刊引证报告数据，分析了七种公共政策期刊的引用网络，发现它们很少相互引用，但较多引用政治学和经济学期刊，且自引率较高，六种期刊在多个领域被广泛引用并处于顶级期刊行列。
Analyses of academic networks typically rely on bibliometric data to reveal intellectual structures and communication links. Using data compiled from Journal Citation Reports , this research reports the key networks of seven general public policy journals: Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Public Policy, Policy Sciences, Policy Studies, Policy Studies Journal , and Public Choice . Two journals had strong links to economics journals, three had moderately strong links to political science journals, and two were highly multidisciplinary. Articles in these seven journals seldom referenced each other but more often cited prominent political science and economics journals; self‐citations were comparatively high. Often cited by journals across a wide range of fields, six of these seven policy journals have achieved high citation rates that put them in the top tiers of journals.