Katerattanakul P, Han B, Hong SG "Objective quality ranking of computing journals " Communications of the ACM 46(10): 111-114 October 2003

[Eugene Garfield]

pairin at wmich.edu
bernard.han at wmich.edu
shong at daunet.donga.ac.kr

Title: Objective quality ranking of computing journals

Author(s): Katerattanakul P, Han B, Hong SG

Source: COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM 46 (10): 111-114 OCT 2003

Document Type: Article
Language: English
Cited References: 12      Times Cited: 5


Addresses: Katerattanakul P (reprint author), Western Michigan Univ, CIS
Program, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 USA
Western Michigan Univ, CIS Program, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 USA
Dong A Univ, MIS Dept, Pusan, South Korea

E-mail Addresses: pairin at wmich.edu, bernard.han at wmich.edu,
shong at daunet.donga.ac.kr

Publisher: ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY, 1515 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10036 USA

IDS Number: 742XL
ISSN: 0001-0782

EXCERPT FROM PAPER :
CONCLUSION:


Based on the average ranking scores derived for each journal across all
seven citation-based indices, the top five computing journals are MISQ,
ISR, CACM, JACM, and IEEESE. Our findings closely resemble results reported
in several previous studies [6, 9–10, 11]; that is, this study confirms
that MISQ, ISR, and CACM are the top three journals of IS and computing
areas. In addition, the ranking results of this study reveal an important
finding supported by most of our quality indices: on average, journals with
a technical or a specialty focus attain high rankings. As verified,
technically oriented journals such as JACM, IEEESE, AI, HCI, IBM, AIMag,
ACMDB, HCS, and JCSS all achieved high rankings based on their final
average ranking scores. While these journals may not receive much
recognition by general audiences, their publications are frequently used
and cited by researchers whose interests are in the journals' niche areas.

While our research tends to be more objective, readers should be aware that
our study is confined to journals with a strong focus in the IS and
computing areas. Some top-quality multidisciplinary journals, such as
Management Science, in which seminal IS articles are published, are not
included in this study, and neither are those journals with insufficient
citation data, such as the Journal of Management Information Systems. This
exclusion might underrate the contribution of those journals in the IS
field. Another potential limitation in citation-based ranking is that its
quality indices could be skewed by excessive citation of controversial
articles that may not make true contributions in the IS or computing
fields. Thus, readers should cautiously exercise their judgment in
interpreting results produced in this study, with no exclusion of other non-
IS or computing journals that publish high-quality IS articles.

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