[Air-L] New media program/journal rankings
Jan Fernback
fernback at temple.edu
Sun Nov 4 07:33:01 PST 2007
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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