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Ranking of Agricultural Economics Departments: Influence of Regional Journals, Joint Authorship, and Self-Citations

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  • Richard Beilock
  • Leo Polopolus

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Citations are increasingly used to indicate the quality of an academic unit's work. The set of literature or journals, however, becomes crucial to any ranking scheme. Citations from the broadly based Social Science Citations Index suggest a different ranking of departments than the ranking obtained from a somewhat narrowly focused set of North American journals of agricultural economics. The paper seeks to determine the influence of regional journals, joint authorship, and self-citations on departmental rankings. Data bases of citations are developed for the faculty of seventy-three departments of agricultural economics in the United States and Canada.

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  • Richard Beilock & Leo Polopolus, 1988. "Ranking of Agricultural Economics Departments: Influence of Regional Journals, Joint Authorship, and Self-Citations," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 70(2), pages 403-409.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:70:y:1988:i:2:p:403-409.
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