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CEFAGE-UE Journal Ranking

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cjr (CEFAGE-UE Journal Ranking) is an R data package that provides CEFAGE’s journal ranking. CEFAGE-UE stands for Center for Advanced Studies in Management and Economics, a research centre from the University of Évora, Portugal.

This package contains four datasets:

  • journals: CEFAGE-UE journals’ ranking
  • rates: CEFAGE-UE journals’ rate categories
  • scientific_fields: Journals’ scientific fields
  • publishing_presses: Journals’ publishing presses

Installation

You can install cjr with:

# Install the development version from GitHub
devtools::install_github("ramiromagno/cjr")

Data source

The datasets here provided are for the 4th edition (2016-2019): http://www.cefage.uevora.pt/en/scientific_resources/ranking_de_revistas_cientificas.

Usage

CEFAGE-UE ranking of journals

The main dataset, i.e., journals, contains the ranking of 903 journals in the field of Economics, Management, and other social sciences, for the period of 2016 thru 2019:

library(cjr)
journals
#> # A tibble: 913 x 6
#>    journal            ISSN    eISSN  publishing_press_… scientific_field_… rate 
#>    <chr>              <chr>   <chr>  <chr>              <chr>              <ord>
#>  1 Academy of Manage… 0363-7… 1930-… AOM                GenMan             AAA  
#>  2 Administrative Sc… 0001-8… <NA>   Sage               GenMan             AAA  
#>  3 American Economic… 0002-8… 1944-… AEA                GenEcon            AAA  
#>  4 Econometrica       0012-9… 1468-… Wiley              GenEcon            AAA  
#>  5 Journal of Finance 0022-1… 1540-… Wiley              Fin                AAA  
#>  6 Journal of Politi… 0022-3… 1537-… Chicago            GenEcon            AAA  
#>  7 Quarterly Journal… 0033-5… 1531-… Oxford             GenEcon            AAA  
#>  8 Review of Economi… 0034-6… 1467-… Wiley              GenEcon            AAA  
#>  9 Academy of Manage… 0001-4… 1948-… AOM                GenMan             AA   
#> 10 Accounting Review  0001-4… 1558-… AAA                AccAud             AA   
#> # … with 903 more rows

Sort journals by rate within scientific domain:

library(dplyr)
arrange(journals, scientific_field_abbr, desc(rate))
#> # A tibble: 913 x 6
#>    journal               ISSN   eISSN  publishing_press… scientific_field… rate 
#>    <chr>                 <chr>  <chr>  <chr>             <chr>             <ord>
#>  1 Accounting Review     0001-… 1558-… AAA               AccAud            AA   
#>  2 Journal of Accountin… 0165-… <NA>   Elsevier          AccAud            AA   
#>  3 Journal of Accountin… 0021-… 1475-… Wiley             AccAud            AA   
#>  4 Accounting, Organiza… 0361-… <NA>   Elsevier          AccAud            A    
#>  5 Contemporary Account… 0823-… 1911-… Wiley             AccAud            A    
#>  6 Review of Accounting… 1380-… 1573-… Springer          AccAud            A    
#>  7 ABACUS - A Journal o… 0001-… 1467-… Wiley             AccAud            C    
#>  8 Accounting and Busin… 0001-… 2159-… Taylor            AccAud            C    
#>  9 Accounting Horizons   0888-… 1558-… AAA               AccAud            C    
#> 10 Auditing - A Journal… 0278-… 1558-… AAA               AccAud            C    
#> # … with 903 more rows

Rates

The rates defined by CEFAGE-UE to rank journals are listed in rates:

rates
#> # A tibble: 6 x 2
#>   rate  description                                                             
#>   <chr> <chr>                                                                   
#> 1 AAA   Top general Economics or Management journal                             
#> 2 AA    Top field journal or excellent general Economics or Management journal  
#> 3 A     Excellent field journal or very good general Economics or Management jo…
#> 4 B     Very good international peer-review journal                             
#> 5 C     Good international peer-review journal                                  
#> 6 D     Other well-known international peer-review journal

Journals’ scientific fields

Journals’ scientific domains abbreviations used in journals are provided in scientific_fields:

scientific_fields
#> # A tibble: 32 x 2
#>    scientific_field_ab… scientific_field                                        
#>    <chr>                <chr>                                                   
#>  1 AccAud               Accounting, Auditing                                    
#>  2 AgrEnvEn             Agricultural, Environmental and Energy Economics        
#>  3 DevTrans             Development and Transition Economics                    
#>  4 EconStat             Econometrics, Applied Statistics                        
#>  5 Fin                  General Finance, Financial Economics, Corporate Finance…
#>  6 GenEcon              General Economics                                       
#>  7 GenMan               General Management                                      
#>  8 Health               Health Economics, Management and Policy                 
#>  9 History              History of Economic Thought, Business and Economic Hist…
#> 10 HRM                  Human Resource Management, Industrial Relations, Manage…
#> # … with 22 more rows

Journals’ publishing presses

Journals’ publishing presses abbreviations used in journals are provided in publishing_presses:

publishing_presses
#> # A tibble: 34 x 2
#>    publishing_press_abbr publishing_press                   
#>    <chr>                 <chr>                              
#>  1 AAA                   American Accounting Association    
#>  2 ACM                   Association for Computing Machinery
#>  3 AEA                   American Economic Association      
#>  4 AIS                   Association for Information Systems
#>  5 AMA                   American Marketing Association     
#>  6 AOM                   Academy of Management              
#>  7 APA                   American Psychological Association 
#>  8 AR                    Annual Reviews                     
#>  9 ASCE                  American Society of Civil Engineers
#> 10 Boeck                 De Boeck Supérior                  
#> # … with 24 more rows