tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1415015639692216699.post1196009155098361077..comments2008-07-15T06:11:18.133-04:00Dr. Huginkisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18273740636415633205noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1415015639692216699.post-48122870222468269112008-07-15T06:11:00.000-04:002008-07-15T06:11:00.000-04:002008-07-15T06:11:00.000-04:00"top journals always being top...." Look at how JQ tanked from #2 last year to #14. Crime and Delinquency had a similar increase. That is just crazy.Scoobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14105948123387352044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1415015639692216699.post-17199083932642493472008-07-15T04:45:00.000-04:002008-07-15T04:45:00.000-04:002008-07-15T04:45:00.000-04:00Well there is a lot of quackery in criminology and crime reduction<BR/><BR/>see: <BR/><BR/>http://bentsocietyblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Quackery<BR/><BR/>One of my team runs the free access Internet Journal of Criminology <BR/><BR/>http://www.internetjournalofcriminology.com/<BR/><BR/>...I bet it has a low impact factor but it provides a lot more service to fledgling criminologists than mainstream journals. As well as publishing peer reviewed papers it published primary research (non peer reviewed) and 1st Class undergrad and post-grad essays.<BR/><BR/>Does the IJC have an impact factor?Bent Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187406508249705295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1415015639692216699.post-931032139775771532008-07-13T20:53:00.000-04:002008-07-13T20:53:00.000-04:002008-07-13T20:53:00.000-04:00Welcome! Thanks for the comments -- the time lag issue is one I hadn't considered before.<BR/><BR/>I have to confess to being slightly bemused while compiling the information for this post. According to impact factor, <I>Criminology</I> remains the gold standard -- the highest-ranking criminology journal. As you can see, sociology's top journal (<I>AJS</I>) has an impact factor of 3.3, which is somewhat higher. Out of curiosity, I checked the impact factors of top journals in other disciplines to see where <I>Crim's</I> 2.344 score ranks. Here's a small sampling:<BR/><BR/>Business:<BR/><I>Academy of Management Journal</I> <BR/>5.017<BR/><BR/>Clinical Psychology:<BR/><I>Journal of Clinical Psychiatry</I> <BR/>5.060<BR/><BR/>Law:<BR/><I>Harvard Law Review</I><BR/>5.859<BR/><BR/>And, just for fun...<BR/><BR/>Medicine:<BR/><I>New England Journal of Medicine</I><BR/><B>52.59!!!</B><BR/><BR/><BR/>Egads!! Now, is it fair to compare a criminology journal to a medical journal? Of course not. Much as we take pride in our research, we're not curing diseases here, folks. Still, I do think it helps to put things into perspective a bit to see that, according to impact factors, the number one medical journal outranks the number one criminology journal by a factor of 25. <BR/><BR/>Humbling or just plain depressing? You decide. : )Dr. Huginkisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18273740636415633205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1415015639692216699.post-80645567460264273312008-07-13T14:37:00.000-04:002008-07-13T14:37:00.000-04:002008-07-13T14:37:00.000-04:00Greetings from another Criminology blogsite<BR/> http://bentsocietyblog.blogspot.com/<BR/><BR/>I do wonder about the way the impact factor is calculated - in that it only looks for citation up to 2 years after publication.<BR/><BR/>It looks to me like that means that any citations of an excellent and influential article published in currently minor (fledgling) journal would be penalised by the fact that the top journals have a waiting list of about 12-18 months for papers that have been accepted by them. <BR/><BR/>Surely that means that the current top journals will always be top of the citation list so long as they have a delay of more than 12 months in publishing papers that may cite articles in other fledgling journals?<BR/><BR/>Seems like a duff system to me.Bent Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187406508249705295noreply@blogger.com