Using the h-index to measure the quality of journals in the field of business and management

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This paper considers the use of the h-index as a measure of a journal's research quality and contribution. We study a sample of 455 journals in business and management all of which are included in the ISI Web of Science (WoS) and the Association of Business School's peer review journal ranking list. The h-index is compared with both the traditional impact factors, and with the peer review judgements. We also consider two sources of citation data - the WoS itself and Google Scholar. The conclusions are that the h-index is preferable to the impact factor for a variety of reasons, especially the selective coverage of the impact factor and the fact that it disadvantages journals that publish many papers. Google Scholar is also preferred to WoS as a data source. However, the paper notes that it is not sufficient to use any single metric to properly evaluate research achievements. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Mingers, J., MacRi, F., & Petrovici, D. (2012). Using the h-index to measure the quality of journals in the field of business and management. Information Processing and Management, 48(2), 234–241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2011.03.009

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