Me focus skews journal ratings
Hannah Fearn,
Times Higher Education,
Mar 05, 2010
I'm shocked! shocked! to find academics rank journals that publish their articles more highly. "We found that (academics) rated the quality of journals more favourably when they had personally published more papers in that journal, when they were a member of the journal's board, when the journal reflected their disciplinary affiliation and when it reflected their geographic affiliation. In summary, expert academics show strong, and predictable, self-favouring biases in their ratings of journal quality."
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