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Author-Name: Chia-Lin Chang
Author-Email: changchialin@nchu.edu.tw
Author-Person: pch286 
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Applied Economics, Department of Finance, National Chung Hsing University
	Taichung, Taiwan
Author-Name: Michael McAleer
Author-Person: pmc90 
Author-Workplace-Name: Econometrisch Instituut (Econometric Institute), Faculteit der Economische 
	Wetenschappen (Erasmus School of Economics), Erasmus Universiteit, Tinbergen Instituut (Tinbergen Institute).
Title: Citations and Impact of ISI Tourism and Hospitality Journals
Abstract: The paper analyses the leading international journals in Tourism and Hospitality Research using 
	quantifiable Research Assessment Measures (RAMs), highlights the similarities and differences in 
	alternative RAMs, shows that several RAMs capture similar performance characteristics of highly cited 
	journals, and shows that some other RAMs have low correlations with each other, and hence add significant 
	informational value. Several RAMs are discussed for the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science database 
	(hereafter ISI). Alternative RAMs may be calculated annually or updated daily to answer the questions 
	as to When, Where and How (frequently) published papers are cited. The RAMs include the most widely 
	used RAM, namely the classic 2-year impact factor including journal self citations (2YIF), 2-year impact 
	factor excluding journal self citations (2YIF*), 5-year impact factor including journal self citations 
	(5YIF), Immediacy (or zero-year impact factor (0YIF)), Eigenfactor, Article Influence, C3PO (Citation 
	Performance Per Paper Online), h-index, PI-BETA (Papers Ignored - By Even The Authors), 2-year 
	Self-citation Threshold Approval Ratings (2Y-STAR), Historical Self-citation Threshold Approval Ratings 
	(H-STAR), Impact Factor Inflation (IFI), and Cited Article Influence (CAI). As data are not available 
	for 5YIF, Article Influence and CAI for 11 of the 14 journals considered, 10 RAMs are analysed for 14 
	highly-cited journals in Tourism and Hospitality in the ISI category of Hospitality, Leisure, 
	Sports & Tourism. Harmonic mean rankings of the 10 RAMs for the 14 highly-cited journals are also presented. 
	It is shown that emphasizing the 2-year impact factor of a journal, which partly answers the question as 
	to When published papers are cited, to the exclusion of other informative RAMs, which answer Where and 
	How (frequently) published papers are cited, can lead to a distorted evaluation of journal impact.
Classification-JEL: L83, Y10.
Keywords: Research assessment measures, Impact factor, IFI, C3PO, PI-BETA, STAR, Eigenfactor, Article Influence, 
	h-index.
Note: For financial support, the first author acknowledges the National Science Council, Taiwan; and the second 
	author acknowledges the Australian Research Council, National Science Council, Taiwan, and the Japan 
	Society for the Promotion of Science.
Length: 18 pages 
Creation-Date: 2011 
Number: 2011-26
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