Google Scholar does seem to have a more robust search/rank capacity for journals than does ISI, which is heavily science oriented. Unfortunately, however, many U.S. universities are now requiring journal impact factors (along with world library holdings, etc) as evidence of the quality of one's scholarship for tenure packages, and many will consider these rankings from ISI only. Several colleagues of mine have been denied tenure based partly on the inability to document the "influence" of their scholarship in accordance with databases like ISI. Incidentally, the journal impact factor of New Media & Society as listed on ISI is 0.988. Most social science or humanities journals rarely have impact factors above 1.5 or 2. As a comparison, the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience is ranked at a 5.197. The hard reality for many of us is that these rankings have direct influence on the trajectories of our careers. Jan Fernback, PhD Associate Professor and Director, Master of Arts Program Dept of Broadcasting, Telecom & Mass Media Temple University Philadelphia, PA 19122 fernback@temple.edu ---- Original message ----
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:53:33 +1100 From: Marj Kibby <Marj.Kibby@newcastle.edu.au> Subject: Re: [Air-L] New media program/journal rankings To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
Dr Marjorie Kibby, Senior Lecturer in Communication & Culture Faculty of Education and Arts The University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia Marj.Kibby@newcastle.edu.au +61 2 49216604
Daren Carroll Brabham <dbrabham@kued.org> 11/04/07 7:40 AM >>> It occurred to me the other day that I know of no published rankings of new media programs around the world, nor of any ranking for journals which feature new media research. If rankings already exist, forgive this message...and please let me know where those rankings are...
Under our new goverment funding model we are having to make 'impact statements' about all of pur research.
Dr Anne-Wil Harzing at the University of Melbourne provides a software program called "Publish or Perish" that retrieves and analyzes academic citations based on Google Scholar which has better coverage of (citations in) books, conference proceedings and a wider range of journals and retrieves more citations in Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities than ISI
http://www.harzing.com/resources.htm#/pop.htm
New Media & Society: Papers:415, Citations:2235, Years:17, Cites/year:131.47, Cites/paper:5.39/1.0, Authors/paper:1.49/1.0
Marj
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