Is it easier to publish in journals that have low impact factors? |
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Authors: | Tolga Yuret |
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Institution: | Department of Economics, Faculty of Management, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey |
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Abstract: | We use publication data from all journals in economics, mathematics, physics and chemistry. We compute the ratio of publications that come from the top 25 US departments for each journal and use it as a measure of difficulty to publish in a journal. We find that there is a rather weak but positive correlation (0.20) between the impact factor and the difficulty measure. |
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Keywords: | Journal quality journal impact factor author affiliation interfield comparison |
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