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- From: charvey@teal.csn.org (Chip Harvey)
- Subject: "Prestige" of Journals
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:23:04 GMT
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- Forgive me if this message is duplicated; I don't know what happened to my
- first post.
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- I am seeking help in evaluating the "prestige" of statistical journals and
- other journals publishing papers in statistics and ecological and
- environmental statistics.
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- I am supposed to submit a ranking to a federal government panel of non-
- statisticians for purposes of valuation of work published by government
- researchers. As is any such ranking, this too is a linear representation of
- a multidimensional set of opinions and as such, is controversial. The
- criteria themselves are controversial. Anyway, among statistical journals,
- I anticipate differences based on theoretical/applied slants of the raters.
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- The criteria which are to be used in evaluating "prestige" are: 1) degree of
- difficulty in getting a paper accepted, 2) level of referee review, 3)
- geographic extent of readership, 4) an assessment of the level of scientific
- influence of the journal in the specific field (statistics, ecology,
- environmental sciences), and 5) the extent to which senior scientists publish
- their best papers in the journal. There are four categories of "prestige"
- ranging from "HIGHLY" to "LEAST." The list of publications is open-ended.
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- Additionally, the panel is seeking ideas on how to rate the prestige of books,
- book chapters, proceedings, etc.
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- I would appreciate any participation. Please e-mail your lists, ratings, and
- ideas to me, charvey@csn.org. If there is general interest, I will post the
- results. I am cross-posting this request in bit.listserv.stat-l and
- sci.math.stat.
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- Chip Harvey charvey@csn.org
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