Evaluating Journals in Environmental Economics: A TOP-Curve Approach
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In this paper, we use an alternative measure of scholarly quality, namely TOP-curves in order to rank journals in the field of environmental and resource economics. This measure summarizes the journals’ highly cited articles’ incidence, intensity and inequality. Moreover, TOP-curves allow analysts to rank journals according to TOPdominance. If such a ranking is impossible, the area below the curves can be used as a secondary criterion. The journal ranking based on the TOP-dominance criterion does not coincide with the ranking according to the journals’ impact factors. Indeed TOPcurves provide more detailed information on the relative ranking of journals since they take the composition and the distribution of citations within the top group into account.
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