Influence ratio: An alternate means to assess the relative influence of hospitality and tourism journals on research
- 作者：Bob McKercher ; hmbob@polyu.edu.hk ; hmbob@inet.polyu.edu.hk
- 关键词：Journal influence ; Influence ratio ; Citations ; Bibliometrics
- 刊名：International Journal of Hospitality Management
- 出版年：2012
- 期刊代码：25_02784319
- 类别：bus
- 出版时间：September, 2012
- 卷：31
- 期：3
- 页码：962-971
- 文件大小：1070 K
摘要
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.