18. Quartile 1 journals in Social Sciences general JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES 2.818 HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH 2.713 GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS 2.564 HEALTH EDUCATION RESEARCH 2.31 EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 2.176 LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING 2.029 ENERGY POLICY 1.901 ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A 1.834 RISK ANALYSIS 1.831 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE 1.822 JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC POLICY 1.806 PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING 1.778 TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE 1.761 SOCIOLOGIA RURALIS 1.617 LAND USE POLICY 1.581 MARINE POLICY 1.525 SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 1.464 LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION 1.435 DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW 1.409 WORLD DEVELOPMENT 1.392 JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES 1.39 JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 1.338 HUMAN ECOLOGY 1.253 SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & HUMAN VALUES 1.231 AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES 1.186 GENDER PLACE AND CULTURE 1.165 AFRICAN AFFAIRS 1.098 POLICY SCIENCES 1.091 SOCIETY & NATURAL RESOURCES 1.064
19. Quartile 1 journals RESEARCH POLICY 2.655 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC GROWTH 2.542 AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW 2.285 ENERGY ECONOMICS 2.248 ORGANIZATION STUDIES 2.042 MARKETING SCIENCE 1.938 JCMS-JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES 1.837 ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS 1.549 ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 1.521 MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 1.468 JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT 1.438 JOURNAL OF AGRARIAN CHANGE 1.375 HUMAN RELATIONS 1.372 JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS 1.323 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN MARKETING 1.28 TOURISM MANAGEMENT 1.274 JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 1.271 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 1.196 CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW 1.154 ENVIRONMENTAL & RESOURCE ECONOMICS 1.079 RESOURCE AND ENERGY ECONOMICS 1.051 MANAGEMENT LEARNING 1.02 FUTURES 1.014 JOURNAL OF BANKING & FINANCE 0.997 JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECONOMETRICS 0.978 EUROPEAN REVIEW OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 0.977 FOOD POLICY 0.942 JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS 0.938 PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW 0.93 SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL 0.929 ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS 0.811
20. Journal selection and impact of Dutch Univ. NOWT (2008). Wetenschaps- en Technologie- Indicatoren 2008 . Maastricht, Nederlands Observatorium van Wetenschap en Technologie (NOWT).
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22. Final word on Journal quality It is better to publish one paper in a quality journal than multiple papers in lesser journals. [...]. Try to publish in journals that have high impact factors; chances are your paper will have high impact, too, if accepted. Bourne, P. E. (2005). Ten Simple Rules for Getting Published. PLoS Comput Biol 1(5): e57 .
24. Internal cooperation NOWT (2008). Wetenschaps- en Technologie- Indicatoren 2008 . Maastricht, Nederlands Observatorium van Wetenschap en Technologie (NOWT).
25. Cooperation is rewarding NOWT (2010). Wetenschaps- en Technologie- Indicatoren 2010 . Maastricht, Nederlands Observatorium van Wetenschap en Technologie (NOWT).
26. Cooperation... Wuchty, S., B. F. Jones , et al. (2007). The increasing dominance of teams in production of knowledge. Science 316(5827): 1036-1039. Teams increasingly dominate solo authors in the production of knowledge. Research is increasingly done in teams across nearly all fields. Teams typically produce more frequently cited research than individuals do, and this advantage has been increasing over time. Teams now also produce the exceptionally high-impact research, even where that distinction was once the domain of solo authors.
29. Self citations The model [...] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations, so that we have the “chain reaction:” Larger size leads to more self-citations, which lead to more external citations. 11/28 van Raan, A. F. J. (2008). Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10): 1631-1643.
30. More on references Articles that cite more references are in turn cited more themselves Webster, G. D., P. K. Jonason , et al. (2009). Hot Topics and Popular Papers in Evolutionary Psychology: Analyses of Title Words and Citation Counts in Evolution and Human Behavior, 1979 – 2008. Evolutionary Psychology 7(3): 348-362 . Citing across disciplines, risky but rewarding Shi, X., J. Leskovec , et al. (2010). Citing for high impact. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries . p.49-58