GRADING JOURNALS IN ECONOMICS: THE ABCS OF THE ABDC
用多指标文献计量方法评估澳大利亚商学院院长委员会（ABDC）对750多种经济统计期刊的评级，找出评级与计量指标不一致的期刊。
Abstract Many institutions and governments grade academic journals for the evaluation of research. In this paper, we implement a multi‐bibliometric methodology for the evaluation of such a list of journal grades. We examine the grades assigned by the Australian Business Deans Council ( ABDC ) for over 750 journals in the fields of economics and statistics. Firstly, we generate up to 48 bibliometric‐based grades for each journal based on the grade distribution implied by the ABDC . Secondly, we categorize the bibliometrics employing a cluster analysis of an interrater agreement statistic. Thirdly, we present a visualization of the consistency of the grading by journal. Finally, we list those journals where the majority of the matched bibliometrics indicate a higher or lower grade than their ABDC grade.