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What shall I compare thee to? Legal journals, impact, citation and peer rankings
Legal Studies ( IF 1.113 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-26 , DOI: 10.1017/lst.2020.43
Janja Hojnik

The pressure to distinguish high quality from lower quality law journals is intensifying. To contribute to this debate, citation-based and peer review-based ranking of law journals are paralleled in the paper, using qualitative and quantitative analysis. It is found that all law journals that are considered as journals of the highest quality by legal experts are also ranked highly in Web of Science (WoS) and that 40% of the law journals categorised as ‘internationally leading’ by the peers are not listed in WoS. This paper explores what the editors of some of the internationally leading law journals that are not listed in the WoS think about applying to be listed in it. The paper offers data to support the contention that legal scholarship is characterised by regionalism in academic publishing and citation patterns. It is submitted that there is no perfect indicator of quality, and that no evaluation system will ever convince every legal scholar in the world of its value. WoS could be adopted as a rigorous and internationally recognised index for law journals only if it were aligned more closely with the Leiden Manifesto.

中文翻译:

我拿什么比你?法律期刊、影响力、引文和同行排名

区分高质量和低质量法律期刊的压力正在加剧。为了促成这场辩论,本文使用定性和定量分析对基于引文和基于同行评审的法律期刊排名进行了平行排列。发现所有被法律专家认为是最高质量期刊的法律期刊在 Web of Science (WoS) 中也排名靠前,并且被同行归类为“国际领先”的法律期刊中有 40% 未被列出在 WoS。本文探讨了一些未列入 WoS 的国际领先法律期刊的编辑对申请列入 WoS 的看法。该论文提供的数据支持这样的论点,即法律学术在学术出版和引用模式中具有区域主义特征。有人认为,没有完美的质量指标,也没有任何评估系统能够让世界上的每一位法律学者相信它的价值。只有当 WoS 与莱顿宣言更紧密地结合在一起时,WoS 才能被用作法律期刊的严格和国际公认的索引。
更新日期:2021-01-26
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