On becoming a high impact journal in international business and management

European Journal of International Management

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 115-118

  Harzing, Anne Wil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 84969452441     PISSN: 17516757     EISSN: 17516765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/EJIM.2008.017763     Document Type: Article

References (11)

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4. Harzing, A.W.K. and van der Wal, R. (2008a) ‘Google Scholar as a new source for citation analysis?’, Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, forthcoming.
5. Harzing, AW.K. and van der Wal, R. (2008b) ‘A Google Scholar h-index for journals: a better metric to measure journal impact in economics & business?’, submitted to the 2008 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 8–13 August 2008, Anaheim, CA.
6. Hirsch, J.E. (2005) ‘An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output’, arXiv:physics/0508025 v5 29 Sep 2006.
7. Cameron reports that in 1997 it was estimated that the SCI covered a mere 2.5% of the world’s scientific journals.
8. International Business Review was included in ISI in 2005. Its first JIF will be for 2007 (published in 2008).
9. Publish or Perish is a software programme that retrieves academic citations using Google Scholar, then analyses these and presents a wide range of citation metrics in a user-friendly format.
10. The h-index was introduced by Hirsch (2005) and is defined as follows: A scientist (or journal) has index h if h of his/her (its) Np papers have at least h citations each, and the other (Np – h) papers have no more than h citations each.
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