[Air-L] New media program/journal rankings

[Jan Fernback]

Google Scholar does seem to have a more robust search/rank 
capacity for journals than does ISI, which is heavily 
science oriented. Unfortunately, however, many U.S. 
universities are now requiring journal impact factors (along 
with world library holdings, etc) as evidence of the quality 
of one's scholarship for tenure packages, and many will 
consider these rankings from ISI only. Several colleagues of 
mine have been denied tenure based partly on the inability 
to document the "influence" of their scholarship in 
accordance with databases like ISI. 

Incidentally, the journal impact factor of New Media & 
Society as listed on ISI is 0.988. Most social science or 
humanities journals rarely have impact factors above 1.5 or 
2. As a comparison, the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience is 
ranked at a 5.197. The hard reality for many of us is that 
these rankings have direct influence on the trajectories of 
our careers.

Jan Fernback, PhD
Associate Professor and Director, Master of Arts Program
Dept of Broadcasting, Telecom & Mass Media
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
fernback at temple.edu



---- Original message ----
>Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:53:33 +1100
>From: Marj Kibby <Marj.Kibby at newcastle.edu.au>  
>Subject: Re: [Air-L] New media program/journal rankings  
>To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>
>Dr Marjorie Kibby, 
>Senior Lecturer in Communication & Culture
>Faculty of Education and Arts
>The University of Newcastle,  Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia
>Marj.Kibby at newcastle.edu.au
>+61 2 49216604
>>>> Daren Carroll Brabham <dbrabham at kued.org> 11/04/07 7:40 
AM >>>
>It occurred to me the other day that I know of no published 
rankings of
>new media programs around the world, nor of any ranking for 
journals
>which feature new media research.  If rankings already 
exist, forgive
>this message...and please let me know where those rankings 
are...
> 
>Under our new goverment funding model we are having to 
make 'impact
>statements' about all of pur research.
>
>Dr Anne-Wil Harzing at the University of Melbourne provides 
a software
>program called "Publish or Perish" that retrieves and 
analyzes academic
>citations based on Google Scholar which has better coverage 
of
>(citations in) books, conference proceedings and a wider 
range of
>journals and retrieves more citations in Social Sciences, 
Arts &
>Humanities than ISI
>
>http://www.harzing.com/resources.htm#/pop.htm 
>
>
>New Media & Society: 
>Papers:415,
>Citations:2235,
>Years:17,
>Cites/year:131.47,
>Cites/paper:5.39/1.0,
>Authors/paper:1.49/1.0
>
>
>Marj
>
>
>
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