Abstract
This paper proposes an alternative metric to assess the relative influence journals have on research by using an influence ratio measure. Hospitality and tourism journals are used as a case study. Influence ratio enables a suite of journals to be evaluated through the calculation of a score for each journal that reflects the share of citations and the share of papers it produces against all citations and all papers in the set. A higher influence ratio score signifies that a journal is proportionately more influential, for it generates a greater share of citations than the share of papers published would suggest. The study evaluated three sets of hospitality and tourism journals (17 hospitality, 41 tourism and a combined set of 54 hospitality and tourism journals). The study illustrates the efficacy of using the influence ratio metric. A small number of journals in each field play a disproportionately strong influence in informing scholarship, with a long tail of relatively less influential journals observed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 962-971 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | International Journal of Hospitality Management |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2012 |
Keywords
- Bibliometrics
- Citations
- Influence ratio
- Journal influence
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
- Strategy and Management