Finance journal rankings and tiers: An Active Scholar Assessment methodology

Google Scholar journal metrics: Comparison with impact factor and SCImago journal rank indicator for nuclear medicine journals

Introduction: In the current study, we compared h5-index provided by Google Scholar (GS), impact factor (IF) provided by web of sciences (WOS), and SCImago journal rank indicator (SJR) provided by SCOPUS for quality assessment of nuclear medicine journals. Methods: 2013 h5-index, 2012 IF, and 2011 SJR of nuclear medicine journals were extracted from their publishers namely GS, WOS, and SCOPUS....

An introduction to the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance

Comparative evaluation of teaching by scholar and teacher self-assessment

Introduction: Teacher appraisal is an issue which is becoming increasingly important in educational system. The results of evaluation of teaching and teacher self- assessment can look for the strength and weakness of teaching and improving the quality of education delivered. This study was aimed to determine the proportion between the student's opinions about teaching performance of teacher s...

Reliability of journal impact factor rankings

BACKGROUND Journal impact factors and their ranks are used widely by journals, researchers, and research assessment exercises. METHODS Based on citations to journals in research and experimental medicine in 2005, Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo methods were used to estimate the uncertainty associated with these journal performance indicators. RESULTS Intervals representing plausible range...

The Journal of Finance - Vol

When IPO shares are sold sequentially, later potential investors can learn from the purchasing decisions of earlier investors. This can lead rapidly to "cascades" in which subsequent investors optimally ignore their private information and imitate earlier investors. Although rationing in this situation gives rise to a winner's curse, it is irrelevant. The model predicts that: (1) Offerings succ...