This study investigates relationship between the journal ranking lists reported in previous studies on IS journal quality and the rankings derived based on citation data. Journals are categorized into pure, hybrid, partial, and non-IS journals. A total of 8,023 articles published in 38 journals are analyzed and 27,567 citations made to these articles are collected. Five citation-based indices a...

Recently, aggregated journal-journal citation networks were made accessible from the perspective of each journal included in the Science Citation Index (see http://www.leydesdorff.net/). The local matrices can be used to inspect the relevant citation environment of a journal using statistical analysis and visualization techniques from social network analysis. The inspection gives an answer to t...