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

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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