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Lloyd, Bonnie. 1989. Not-So-Mysterious Secrets of Publishing Journal Articles. IN Kenzer, Martin S. 1989. On Becoming a Professional Geographer. Columbus: Merrill Publishing Company, 148-159. [additional chapters of this book address writing scholarly books, multi-author collections, grant proposals, etc.]
Brunn, Stanley D. 1988. The Manuscript Review Process and Advice to Prospective Authors. Professional Geographer 40 (1): 8-14.
For some disciplines the journals can be identified comparatively easily and therefore be described or evaluated in books such as Journals in Psychology or Historical journals : a handbook for writers and reviewers. Nothing so concise exists for geography. There are several resources, however, which you can use in addition to consultations with your advisors and colleagues.
1) Journal articles which evaluate disciplinary journals. The authors in this very selective listing use a variety of methods.
Geography Journal Articles
- Brunn, S.D. 1997. Support for, and impacts of, publishing in the Annals of the AAG: The authors and an editor speak. Professional Geographer. 49 (3): 364-371. UW Restricted
- Garcia-Ramon MD, Caballe A. 1998. Situating gender geographies: A bibliometric analysis. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 89 (2): 210-216. UW Restricted
- Johnston, R. 2005. Editorial: On Journals. Environment & Planning A, 37 (1): 2-8. UW Restricted
- Johnston, R. 2003. Geography: A Different Sort of Discipline? Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 28 (2): 133-144. UW Restricted
- Lee, D., and Evans, A. 1984. American geographers' rankings of American geography journals. Professional Geographer 36 (3): 292-300. UW Restricted
- Lee, D., and Evans, A. 1985. Geographers' rankings of foreign geography and non-geography journals. Professional Geographer 37 (4): 396-402. UW Restricted
- Turner, B.L., II. 1988. Whether to publish in geography journals. Professional Geographer 40 (1): 15-18. UW Restricted
- Smith, Jeffrey S. 2003. "Cultural Geography: A Survey of Perceptions Held by Cultural Geography Specialty Group Members." The Professional Geographer 55 (1), 18–30. UW Restricted
- Whitehand, J.W.R. 1984. "The impact of geographical journals: A look at the ISI data." Area 16(2): 185-187. [Suzzallo Periodicals G1 .A742 1969-2006]
Economics Journal Articles:
- Barrett, C.B., Olia, A., Von-Bailey, D. 2000. Subdiscipline-specific journal rankings: Whither Applied Economics? Applied-Economics. 32(2): 239-252. UW Restricted
- Laband, D. N. and Piette, M. J. (1994) The relative impacts of economics journals: 1970-1990. Journal of Economic Literature. 32(2), 640-66. UW Restricted
- Liebowitz, S. J. and Palmer, J. P. (1984). Assessing the relative impacts of economics journals. Journal of Economic Literature. 22(1): 77-88. UW Restricted
- Stigler, G. J., Stigler, S. M. and Friedland, C. (1995) The journals of economics. Journal of Political Economy. 103(2): 331-59. UW Restricted
Law Reviews & Journals
What are the Best Law Reviews? Are there Rankings of Law Reviews?
This invaluable compilation on ranking and evaluating legal journals was compiled by Mary Whisner & Ann Hemmens, Marion Gould Gallagher Law Library, University of Washington School of Law.2) Magazines for Libraries [many copies in UW Libraries]
The chapter on Geography in this guide can provide an overview of available titles. Skimming multiple chapters, e.g. Latin American Studies, Urban Studies, may be necessary to get the most out of this source. Reviews from this publication are included in Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory (UW Restricted) which is easily searched for individual titles. It is important to note that Magazines for Libraries is very selective, not comprehensive. Read a typical descriptive review.
3) ISI Impact Factors & Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and Alternatives in Development
The Institute for Scientific Iinformation (ISI) has produced citation indexes since the 1960s and in the 1970s began publishing in-house statistical analyses as Journal Citation Reports (JCR) UW Restricted. Careful interpretation of this data will be based on a thorough understanding of the methodologies, and their limits, used to generate these reports. ISI provides extensive literature to support use of the JCR including:
- eigenfactor.org
- An alternative to Thomson's Journal Impact Factor, developed by the Bergstrom Lab, Dept of Biology, University of Washington.
- Butler, D. 2008. "Free journal-ranking tool enters citation market." Nature. 451 (7174) : 6.
- Rossner, M., Van Epps, H., Hill, E. 2007. "Show me the data." The Journal of Cell Biology, 179 (6) : 1091-1092.
- This recent study questions the reliability of ISI's Journal Impact Factor, based on an inability to reproduce ISI results using ISI's own data. Rossner et al published a further response in 2008. "Irresproducible Results: a response to Thomson Scientific." The Journal of Cell Biology, 180 (2) : 254-255.
- Garfield, Eugene. 2005. The Agony and the Ecstasy: The History and Meaning of the Journal Impact Factor. UW Restricted
- Monastersky, Richard. 2005. "The number that is devouring science." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 52 (8) : A12.
- Garfield, Eugene. 1994. The ISI Impact Factor UW Restricted
- Garfield, Eugene. 1994. Using the ISI Impact Factor UW Restricted
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