A quantitative history of JTEP

Journal of Transport Economics and Policy

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 311-316

  Morrison, Steven A ^a   Oum, Tae H ^a   Starkie, David ^a  

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS;

EID: 35448969758     PISSN: 00225258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. The data were extracted from the database on November 27, 2006. The analysis presented in this paper is limited to articles that have jjappeared in the Journal, i.e., contributions categorized as notes, comments, rejoinders, editorial material, etc., have been excluded.
2. This aspect of the citation distribution has been observed before. Sidney Redner ('How Popular is Your Paper? An Empirical Study of the Citation Distribution,' European Physics Journal B, 4, 1998, pp. 131-134) studied the distribution of citations to papers in scientific journals. His results imply, for example, that the number of papers with 10 or more citations is 100 times greater than the number of papers with 100 or more citations.
3. The cited half-life of publications in a journal is the 'number of publication years from the current JCR [Journal Citation Report] year that account for 50% of citations received by the journal.' (Quotation taken from the ISI Web of Knowledge webpage.) The cited half-life was 9.6 years for citations in 2001, 9.0 years for citations in 2003, and > 10 years (the highest category) for citations in 2002 and 2004-2006.
4. Some, but not all, of the increased length - approximately 20 percent - is because of a change in the format of the Journal. Beginning with the January 2000 issue, we changed the Journal's format somewhat with approximately 10 percent fewer words per page.
5. Jess Gaspar and Ed Glaeser ('Information Technology and the Future of Cities,' Journal of Urban Economics, 43, 1997, pp. 136-156) find an increase in the percentage of papers n economics journals with two or more authors when comparing the periods 1960-62 (0.121), 1970-72 (0.225), 1980-82 (0.359), and 1990-92 (0.557). They find it highly suggestive that this increase was caused, among perhaps other factors, by changes in information technology and telecommunications.
6. Keywords that could be considered generic for a transport economics journal (e., transport, industry, and model) have been excluded from the analysis.
7. Similarly, words that could be considered generic for a transport economics journal have been excluded.