Autor según el artículo: Ginieis M; Li X
Departamento: Gestió d'Empreses
Autor/es de la URV: Ginieis Iribarren, Matías Carlos / Li, Xiaoni
Palabras clave: University Sustainability Research productivity Productivity Management Journal ranking Journal quality Impact Higher education Environmental research Economics departments Citation Business Authorship pattern Author affiliation
Resumen: © 2020 by the authors. An important component in evaluating research productivity is the quality of the academic journal. For this reason, the objective of this paper is to analyze the Author Affiliation Index (AAI) in sustainability field journals as a preliminary study to offer some insights into quality rating of journals in this chosen discipline. The AAI of a journal is defined as the percentage of the journal's articles published by authors affiliated with a base set of high-quality academic universities or institutions. We conducted an evaluation of the top 50 journals in environmental studies indexed in the category Social Science in the Web of Science (WOS) database in 2018 and the top-notch 50 universities worldwide with master or postgraduate programs in the disciplines of management and sustainability studies. The results obtained demonstrate that there is a low AAI score on average in the sustainability field compared with other disciplines and the potential reason for such low scoring is probably caused by the high number of co-authors collaborating in environmental studies related journals. Although there is no agreement reached in terms of journal ratings by AAIs and other citation and survey-based measures, we can confirm certain elite affiliations effect which leading sustainability journals have higher concentrations of authors who are affiliated with elite institutions, however, such elite affiliation effect is on average much lower compared with other disciplines as finance, accounting or transportation, etc.
Áreas temáticas: Zootecnia / recursos pesqueiros Renewable energy, sustainability and the environment Ren Medicina i Management, monitoring, policy and law Interdisciplinar Historia Hardware and architecture Green & sustainable science & technology Geography, planning and development Geografía Geociências Environmental studies Environmental sciences Environmental science (miscellaneous) Ensino Engenharias iii Engenharias ii Engenharias i Enfermagem Energy engineering and power technology Education Computer science (miscellaneous) Computer networks and communications Ciências agrárias i Building and construction Biotecnología Biodiversidade Arquitetura, urbanismo e design Arquitetura e urbanismo
Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 19370709
Direcció de correo del autor: matias.ginieis@urv.cat xiaoni.li@urv.cat
Identificador del autor: 0000-0003-4459-2899 0000-0002-4047-4046
Fecha de alta del registro: 2024-07-27
Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Enlace a la fuente original: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/3/1104
URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Sustainability. 12 (3):
Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Ginieis M; Li X (2020). Ranking of sustainability journals using the author affiliation index and comparison to other journal metrics. Sustainability, 12(3), -. DOI: 10.3390/su12031104
DOI del artículo: 10.3390/su12031104
Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Año de publicación de la revista: 2020
Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications