Ranking journals in business and management: A statistical analysis of the Harzing data set

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 303-316

  Mingers, John ^a   Harzing, Anne Wil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Citation indices; Cluster analysis; Journal rankings; Research assessment exercise (RAE)

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548975738     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000696     Document Type: Article

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