Journal rankings and publication strategy

Piotr Śpiewanowski; Oleksandr Talavera

doi:10.1007/s11192-021-03891-5

Journal rankings and publication strategy

Piotr Śpiewanowski^*, Oleksandr Talavera

^*Corresponding author for this work

Economics

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Abstract

We study the impact of journal ranking systems on publication outlet choice. We investigate the publication behavior of UK-based scholars registered on IDEAS/RePEc and analyze the publication outcomes of their academic work uploaded to the repository. Our estimates suggest that authors strategically choose outlets to maximize their publication scores. Our identification strategy is based on exploiting the change in the British ABS journal ranking in 2015. Working papers written before the 2015 ABS journal ranking change are significantly less likely to be published in ex-post downgraded journals. The effect cannot be attributed to the overall change in journal quality.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3227-3242
Journal	Scientometrics
Volume	126
Issue number	4
Early online date	25 Feb 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-03891-5
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 25 Feb 2021

Keywords

AJG/ABS list
Journal rankings
Publication strategy

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General Social Sciences
Computer Science Applications
Library and Information Sciences

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