ISSN 2229-5984 (P) 2249-5576 (e) Ranking and Comparison of Journals Published in India with Special Reference to Humanities and Social Sciences Nanjundaiah* and Dinesh, K. S. **
To Cite: Nanjundaiah & Dinesh, K. S. (2016). Ranking and Comparison of Journals Published in India with Special Reference to Humanities and Social Sciences. International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology, 6(4), 251-257.
*Librarian, Gokhale Centenary ABSTRACT College, Ankola, Karnataka, This paper describes the subject-wise distribution and ranking of HSS journals Research Scholar, published in India with the help of SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR). The paper compares the ranking of journals published in India with international level journals DLIS, Bharathiar University, using SJR. The paper reveals that in seven subject areas, journals published from Coimbatore India are nowhere comparable at the international level publications. In **Deputy Librarian, multidisciplinary area, only journal from India is in 5th position at international level. Indian Institute of Technology, The paper also bring out the fact that most of the top ranked journals at international Ropar level have been published from United States or United Kingdom.
Corresponding Author Dinesh K. Siddaiah KeyTerms:Journals ranking, SJR Indicator, SNIP, IPP, Humanities and Social Science Journals, Scientometric Analysis [email protected]
Received on: 09.07.16; Revised on: 17.11.16; Accepted on: 05.12.16
INTRODUCTION Reports (JCR) and SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator. SJR was developed by SCImago from the widely known algorithm Google Analyzing the ranking and comparing the journals at the Page Rank. This indicator shows the visibility of the journals international level is very important for the researchers, funding contained in the Scopus database from 1996. SCImago is a institutions, professional societies etc. for many reasons. A research group from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones researcher gets many clues on the quality of journals. Funding Científicas (CSIC), University of Granada, Extremadura, Carlos III institutions understand the quality of research output of (Madrid) and Alcalá de Henares, dedicated to information researchers and the assessment of quality of journals helps the analysis, representation and retrieval by means of visualization professional societies to improve the quality of journals which techniques (2007-2016)4 Put. they publish. The experts in the analytics, bibliometric and scientometric fields are proposing many evaluating methods. SJR is a powerful scientific indicator and researchers across the One such powerful analytical tool which was conceived in 1955 world are widely using SJR indicators to access and analyze the by Eugene Garfield is the Journal impact factor (IF)1. The impact scientific domain especially to know the journal and country factor of a journal is calculated based on the citation analysis of rank. In this paper research scholar has made an attempt to Journal articles published in a particular period. Conversely many analyze the ranking and international status of social science other analysts criticizing the accuracy of IF. Falagas et al. Cantin, journals published in India and which are listed in the SJR and Munoz & Roa reviewed in their work that journal impact factors Scopus database. have been criticized by many analysts even though IF have been LITERATURE REVIEW widely accepted as the best instrument for evaluation for quality of journals2,3. We reviewed literature pertaining to this analytical study. Falagas et al discussed that the application of currently available Later many researchers found that IF is not only the right approach sophisticated algorithms of citation analysis allows for the to evaluate the quality of journals. Two more such methods which incorporation of the "Quality" of citations in the evaluation of evolved to evaluate the quality of journals are Journal Citation
International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology | October-December 2016 | Vol. 6 | Issue 4 251 scientific journals2. He compared the newly introduced SCImago sciences. The journals cover pure social science subject journal rank (SJR)| indicator with the journal impact factor (IF). constitutes 23% whereas arts and humanities represent 12.88%. The study by Zhao shows that SJR has a significant positive Ten journals (9.2%) belongs to the areas of Business, correlation with journal impact factor and h-index5. Combining Management and Accounting, 5.52% of the journals are from SJR and journal impact factor, we can distinguish between Economic, Econometrics and Finance area. Only three journals journal's popularity and prestige characteristics. Colledge in the from psychology and two journals are from decision science study introduced the two journal metrics which were endorsed by subject areas. Elsevier's Scopus: SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Table 1: Subject Wise Distribution of Journals 6 Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) . SJR weights citations Subject No. of Journals %age according to the status of the citing journal and aims to measure journal prestige rather than popularity. SNIP compensates for Arts and Humanities 14 12.88 disparities in citation potential and aims to account for Business, Management and Accounting 10 9.2 differences in topicality across research fields. The study by Decision Science 02 1.84 Abrizah compares the coverage, ranking, impact and subject Economic, Econometrics and Finance 06 5.52 categorization of Library and Information Science journals, specifically, 79 titles based on data from Web of Science (WoS) Multidisciplinary 32 29.44 and 128 titles from Scopus7. Comparisons were made based on Psychology 03 2.76 prestige factor scores reported in 2010 Journal Citation Reports Social Science 25 23 and SCImago Journal Rank 2010 and noting the change in Total 92 100 ranking when the differences are calculated. The rank normalized impact factor and the Library of Congress q Subcategories in SJR Classification System were used to compare impact rankings and subject categorization. There was high degree of similarity in rank Various subcategories of subject are listed in the Table 2. Arts and normalized impact factor of titles in both WoS and Scopus Humanities contains 13 subcategories as listed in the below databases. The searches found 162 journals, with 45 journals table. Table shows the humanities and social science Journals appearing in both databases. An analysis by Gupta shows India's published in India which are categorized in SJR according to their performance in social science using different quantitative and subject areas: Business, Management and Accounting has 10 qualitative measures. The study focuses on India's global subcategories; Decision Sciences having four subcategories; publication share rank and growth rate, citation quality, Economics, Econometrics and Finance has three subcategories international collaborative publications share8. whereas Psychology and Social Sciences contains 6 and 23 subject categories respectively. OBJECTIVES Table 2: Subcategories in SJR The study intends to understand the subject-wise distribution and S.N Subject Areas Sub-categories ranking of HSS journals published in India as per SJR score. Another important objective is to compare the ranking of journals 1 Arts and - Archeology (Arts and Humanities) published in India with international level using SJR. Humanities - Arts and Humanities METHODOLOGY - Classics - Conservation The data were downloaded for this analytical study from the SCImago Journal & Country Rank portal on 30 December 2015. - History SJR portal includes the journals and country scientific indicators - History and Philosophy of Science developed from the information contained in the Scopus - Language and linguistics database. These indicators can be used to assess and analyses 9 - Literature and literary theory scientific domains (http://www.scimagojr.com/) . The Scopus is the multidisciplinary and largest international database which - Museology indexes more than 18000 peer-reviewed journals. There are total - Music 92 journals from Humanities and Social Science (HSS) journals - Philosophy including multidisciplinary areas published from India and which are indexed in the Scopus database. The data were considered - Religious Studies up-to 2014 for 92 journals from SJR and Scopus database. - Visual Arts and Performing Arts 2 Business, - Accounting DATA ANALYSIS Management and - Business and International Management The Table 1 shows the humanities and social science Journals Accounting - Business, Management and Accounting published in India which are categorized in SJR according to their (Miscellaneous) subject areas. All the 92 journals are categorized under seven main subjects. Out of 92 journals, 32 (29.44%) journals are - Industrial Relations multidisciplinary in nature. It means 32 journals covers articles - Management Information Systems from different subject areas such as medical, engineering, science - Management of Technology and and technology etc. in addition to humanities and social Innovations
252 International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology | October-December 2016 | Vol. 6 | Issue 4 q - Marketing Ranking of Journals based on SJR - Organizational behavior and Human Citation analysis play an essential role in research evaluation Resources Management systems, with their results being widely applied as complements - Strategy and Management to expert review. The Scopus data has been used in the development of SJR indicators as the Scopus is covering most of - Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality 10 Management the world's largest scientific database . The table 3 is indicating the ranking of HSS journals which are published in India on the 3 Decision - Decision Sciences (Miscellaneous) basis of SJR. Along with the SJR, other metrics such as Impact per Sciences - Information Systems and Management Publication (IPP) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) - Management Science and Operations are given. IPP measures the ratio of citations in a year (Y) to Research scholarly papers published in the three previous years (Y-1, Y-2, Y- - Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 3) divided by the number of scholarly papers published in those same years (Y-1, Y-2, Y-3). The IPP metric is using a citation 4 Economics, - Economics and Econometrics window of three years which is considered to be the optimal time Econometrics - Economics, Econometrics and Finance period to accurately measure citations in most subject fields and Finance (Miscellaneous) (http://www.journalmetrics.com/ipp.php)11. SNIP was created by - Finance Professor HenkMoed at CTWS, University of Leiden, which 5 Multidisciplinary - Multidisciplinary measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field. The impact of a 6 Psychology - Applied Psychology single citation is given higher value in subject areas where - Clinical Psychology citations are less likely, and vice versa (http://www.journalmetrics 12 - Developmental and Educational .com/snip.php) . Psychology Out of 92 journals selected for the study we find only 74 journals - Experimental and Cognitive Psychology are having current (2014) SJR ranking. The multidisciplinary - Neuropsychology and Physiological journal "Indian Journal of Science and Technology" is at number Psychology one position in the table with the SJR ranking of 1.302. It is the - Psychology (Miscellaneous) only journal in the list having one plus score of SJR. The journal "Conservation and Society" is in the second spot with SJR score of 7 Social Sciences - Anthropology 0.914. The Journals "Progress in Development Studies" and - Archeology "Contributions to Indian Sociology" are having SJR ranking at 0.7 - Communication level and found the place at 3rd and 4th positions respectively. - Cultural Studies The Journal "Statistical Modelling" is at 5th position with the SJR of 0.643. The four titles are in 6th to 9th position with the SJR score - Demography of 0.4 and the eight journal titles are in 10th to 17th position with - Development the SJR score of 0.3. The journals which are in 18th to 33rd - Education positions are having SJR score of 0.2 whereas journals listed in 34th to 74 are scoring 0.1. - Gender Studies - Geography, Planning and Development It is interested to note that, significant differences are observed in IPP and SNIP metrics for most of the journals. Opposite trend is - Health (Social Sciences) seen in the table with respect to SJR V/S IPP and SNIP metrics. In - Human Factors and Ergonomics the case of "Indian Journal of Science and Technology" SJR count - Law is highest whereas SNIP and IPP count is less. In contrast, majority - Library and Information Science of the journals are having highest IPP and SNIP count than SJR number. - Life-Span and Life-Course Studies q Comparison of Journals Published in India with the - Linguistics and Language International Level using SJR - Political Science and International relations Comparison of journals helps the researchers, funding agencies, publishers and countries to understand the quality of research - Public Administration happening across disciplines. In this section, comparisons of - Safety Research journals have been done for the journals published in India with - Social Sciences (Miscellaneous) the international level using SJR. Maximum 10 journals were - Social Work selected from each side depending on the number of journals exist in each subject categories. - Sociology and Political Science q International and Indian SJR of top 10 Publications in Arts - Transportation and Humanities - Urban Studies Table 4 shows the comparison of Indian journals with international top 10 in Arts and Humanities subject area.
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SJR Title SJR IPP SNIP 48 Indian Journal of Gender Studies 0.143 0.158 0.129 Ranking Score Score Score 49 Journal of South Asian Development 0.138 0.344 0.500 1 Indian Journal of Science and Technology 1.302 0.420 0.804 50 Indian Journal of Social Work 0.137 0.023 0.144 2 Conservation and Society 0.914 1.528 1.082 51 Asian Journal of Management Cases 0.133 0.111 0.342 3 Progress in Development Studies 0.743 1.492 1.498 52 Journal of Human Values 0.127 0.105 0.181 4 Contributions to Indian Sociology 0.703 0.850 1.522 53 Medieval History Journal 0.127 0.065 0.211 5 Statistical Modelling 0.643 0.788 0.678 54 Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies 0.121 0.133 0.545 6 Young 0.474 0.810 0.705 55 Gender, Technology and Development 0.117 0.294 0.271 7 Mens Sana Monographs 0.462 1.061 0.907 56 Journal of Hindu Studies 0.117 0.022 0.045 8 Journal of Entrepreneurship 0.455 0.758 0.630 57 Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine and 0.116 0.116 0.142 9 Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge 0.418 0.673 0.907 Toxicology 10 Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics 0.368 0.313 0.474 58 Journal of Rural Development 0.111 0.023 0.143 11 Journal of Developing Societies 0.354 0.526 0.851 59 International Journal of Applied Business 0.107 0.032 0.021 and Economic Research 12 IIMB Management Review 0.335 0.679 0.533 60 South Asia Economic Journal 0.107 0.100 0.180 13 Journal of the Indian Society of Remote 0.318 0.665 0.737 Sensing 61 Asian Agri - History 0.105 0.062 0.167 14 Indian Journal of Psychiatry 0.311 0.814 0.737 62 Environment and Urbanization ASIA 0.103 0.083 0.111 15 Economic and Political Weekly 0.311 0.357 0.908 63 International Journal of Economic Research 0.102 0.015 0.002 16 Science, Technology and Society 0.307 0.379 0.527 64 International Journal of Regulation and 0.102 0.000 0.000 Governance 17 International Journal of Systems Assurance 0.302 0.457 0.566 Engineering and Management 65 BTRA Scan 0.101 0.000 0.000 18 Annals of Library and Information Studies 0.294 0.375 0.911 66 Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics 0.101 0.000 0.000 19 Population Review 0.294 0.294 0.768 67 Purusharta 0.101 0.000 0.000 20 Current Science 0.293 0.841 0.771 68 Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary 0.101 0.007 0.061 Studies in Humanities 21 Disaster Advances 0.289 0.429 0.628 69 Studies in History 0.101 0.031 0.080 22 Studies on Ethno-Medicine 0.272 0.481 0.618 70 Transactions of the Institute of Indian 0.101 0.029 0.061 23 Indian Economic and Social History Review 0.269 0.308 1.717 Geographers 24 South Asia Research 0.269 0.500 2.081 71 Eastern Anthropologist, The 0.100 0.011 0.011 25 Strategic Analysis 0.254 0.161 0.317 72 IUP Journal of English Studies 0.100 0.000 0.000 26 Global Journal of Flexible Systems 0.246 0.923 0.76 73 Journal of Creative Communications 0.100 0.020 0.073 Management 74 Journal of the Textile Association 0.100 0.011 0.017 27 Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research 0.237 0.616 0.636 28 Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine 0.232 0.605 0.606 Significant differences are found between Indian journals with 29 OPSEARCH 0.225 0.311 0.399 international level. The top one title "Annual Review of 30 Journal of Emerging Market Finance 0.219 0.394 0.399 Psychology" is having the SJR of 10.392 whereas Indian title 31 Global Business Review 0.211 0.459 0.759 "Indian Economic Social History" having a SJR of just 0.269. No 32 Journals of Intellectual Property Rights 0.205 0.179 0.487 journals from India is having one plus SJR score in Arts and 33 DESIDOC Journal of Library and 0.203 0.160 0.332 Information Technology Humanities area. Out of 10 International journals, 9 top journals 34 Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics 0.193 0.139 0.354 have published in United States and only one from United 35 International Journal of Ecology and 0.192 0.242 0.512 Kingdom. Development q International and Indian SJR of top 9 Publications in 36 Anthropologist 0.190 0.262 0.654 Business, Management and Accounting 37 Resonance 0.190 0.099 0.210 38 Indian Journal of Marketing 0.187 0.029 0.147 Table 5 shows the comparison of Indian journals with 39 Indian Journal of Finance 0.186 0.018 0.028 international top 9 in Business, Management and Accounting subject area. Much more significant differences are found 40 Man in India 0.186 0.060 0.246 between Indian journals with international level. The top one title 41 International Journal of Cyber Criminology 0.180 0.273 0.208 "Journal of Finance" is having the SJR of 17.138 where as "Journal 42 Psychology and Developing Societies 0.180 0.343 0.378 of Entrepreneurship" from India scored just the SJR of 0.455. Like 43 Indian Journal of Community Health 0.168 0.09 0.249 Arts and Humanities subject area, no journals from India is having 44 Journal of Digital Information Management 0.154 0.116 0.296 one plus SJR score in Business, Management and Accounting 45 China Report 0.150 0.131 0.390 area. Out of 9 top International journals, 7 journals have 46 Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied 0.150 0.125 0.208 Psychology published in United States, one each from United Kingdom and 47 International Journal of Rural Management 0.148 0.115 0.289 Netherlands.
254 International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology | October-December 2016 | Vol. 6 | Issue 4 Table 4: International and Indian SJR of top 10 Publications in Arts and Humanities Rank International Journals Country SJR Indian Journals SJR 1 Annual Review of Psychology United States 10.392 Indian Economic Social History Review 0.269 2 Science United States 10.107 Man In India 0.186 3 Psychological Bulletin United States 6.466 Indian Journal of Gender Studies 0.143 4 JAMA Psychiatry United States 6.463 Medieval History Journal 0.127 5 Administrative Science Quarterly United States 6.230 Bioscope: South Asian Screen 0.121 6 Psychological Review United States 5.521 Journal of Hindu Studies 0.117 7 American Journal of Psychiatry United States 5.279 Purusharta 0.101 8 Psychological Methods United States 4.954 Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies 0.101 in Humanities 9 Brain; a journal of neurology United Kingdom 4.826 Studies in History 0.101 10 Science Education United States 4.696 IUP Journal of English Studies 0.100
Table 5: International and Indian SJR of top 9 Publications in Business, Management and Accounting Rank International Journals Country SJR Indian Journals SJR 1 Journal of Finance United Kingdom 17.138 Journal of Entrepreneurship 0.455 2 Academy of Management Annals United States 13.230 IIMB Management Review 0.335 3 Academy of Management Review United States 11.910 Global Journal of Flexible Systems 0.246 Management 4 Review of Financial Studies United Kingdom 10.726 Global Business Review 0.211 5 Journal of Financial Economics Netherlands 10.116 Indian Journal of Marketing 0.187 6 Academy of Management Journal United States 9.398 International Journal of Rural Management 0.148 7 Organization Science United States 8.098 Asian Journal of Management Cases 0.133 8 Journal of Marketing United States 7.332 International Journal of Applied Business and Economic Research 0.107 9 Journal of Management United States 7.232 International Journal of Economic Research 0.102 q International and Indian SJR of top Two Publications in level "Annals of Mathematics" and "Journal of Operations Decision Sciences Management" are having SJR score of 8.551 and 6.599 respectively whereas Indian journals "Statistical Modeling" and Table 6 shows the comparison of two Indian journals with "Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics" having SJR score of international in the area of Decision Sciences. At international 0.643 and 0.368 respectively. Table 6 : International and Indian SJR of top Two Publications in Decision Sciences
Rank International Journals Country SJR Indian Journals SJR 1 Annals of Mathematics United States 8.551 Statistical Modeling 0.643 2 Journal of Operations Management Netherlands 6.599 Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics 0.368 q International and Indian SJR of top Five Publications in "Journal of Economic Literature" is at fifth position with the SJR Economics, Econometrics and Finance score of 11.259. The journals published in India are having very least SJR scores. The Economic and Political Weekly is at first Table 7 shows the comparison of five Indian journals with position with SJR score of 0.311 and other Indian journals are international in the area of Economics, Econometrics and having SJR score of less than 0.3. In the international journals Finance. The "Quarterly Journal of Economics" is on top at category, first three journals are published from United Kingdom international level with an excellent SJR score of 22.541 and the and remaining two journals published from United States. Table 7: International and Indian SJR of top Five Publications in Economics, Econometrics and Finance Rank International Journals Country SJR Indian Journals SJR 1 Quarterly Journal of Economics United Kingdom 22.541 Economic and Political Weekly 0.311 2 Journal of Finance United Kingdom 17.138 Journal of Emerging Market Finance 0.219 3 Econometrica United Kingdom 16.297 Indian Journal of Finance 0.186 4 Journal of Political Economy United States 13.477 South Asia Economic Journal 0.107 5 Journal of Economic Literature United States 11.259 Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics 0.101
International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology | October-December 2016 | Vol. 6 | Issue 4 255 q International and Indian SJR of top Ten Publications in rank among Indian multidisciplinary journal with the SJR score of Multidisciplinary Journals 1.302. Other three journals published from Asia which are listed among top 10 international multidisciplinary journals are Table 8 shows the comparison of Indian journals with "Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B: Physical and international top 10 in the area of multidisciplinary. Prestigious Biological Sciences" from Japan, International Journal of journal "Nature" is on top with SJR score of 17.313 followed by Bifurcation and Chaos in Applied Sciences and Engineering from renowned journal "Science" is at second position with the SJR Singapore and Middle East Journal of Scientific Research from score of 10.107. Interestingly "Indian Journal of Science and Pakistan as shown in the table. Technology" found 5th position at the international level and first Table 8: International and Indian SJR of top Ten Publications in Multidisciplinary area
Rank International Journals Country SJR Indian Journals SJR 1 Nature United Kingdom 17.313 Indian Journal of Science and Technology 1.302 2 Science United States 10.107 Conservation and Society 0.914 3 Proceedings of the National United States 5.781 Mens Sana Monographs 0.462 Academy of Sciences of the United States 4 Scientific Reports United Kingdom 1.754 Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge 0.418 5 Indian Journal of Science and India 1.302 Journal of the Indian Society of Remote 0.318 Technology Sensing 6 Progress in Natural Science: Netherlands 0.923 Indian Journal of Psychiatry 0.311 Materials International 7 Proceedings of the Japan Japan 0.846 Science, Technology and Society 0.307 Academy Series B: Physical and Biological Sciences 8 International Journal of Singapore 0.540 International Journal of Systems Assurance 0.302 Bifurcation and Chaos in Engineering and Management Applied Sciences and Engineering 9 Complexity United States 0.504 Annals of Library and Information Studies 0.294 10 Middle East Journal of Scientific Pakistan 0.491 Current Science 0.293 Research q International and Indian SJR of top Three Publications in having SJR score of 10.392 followed by "Trends in Cognitive Psychology Sciences" published from United Kingdom is having SJR score of 9.246 and "Perspectives on Psychological Science" published Table 9 represents the comparison of three Indian journals with from United States is having SJR score of 7.163. In contrary, one international in the area of Psychology. At international level Indian journal has SJR score of just 0.232 and other two having "Annual Review of Psychology" published from United States is SJR of less than 0.2 as shown in the below table.
Table 9: International and Indian SJR of top three publications in Psychology
Rank International Journals Country SJR Indian Journals SJR 1 Annual Review of Psychology United States 10.392 Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine 0.232 2 Trends in Cognitive Sciences United Kingdom 9.243 Psychology and Developing Societies 0.180 3 Perspectives on Psychological United States 7.163 Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied 0.150 Science Psychology q International and Indian SJR of top 10 Publications in CONCLUSION Social Sciences Out of seven subject areas considered for study, multidisciplinary Table 10 shows the comparison of Indian journals with journals constitutes major share. The study reveals that only one international top 10 in the area of Social Sciences. Significant journal which belongs to multidisciplinary group is having a SJR differences are observed between Indian journals with score of more than one. We can find significant differences international level. The "American Political Science Review" among IPP and SNIP metrics for most of the journals published in published from United Kingdom in top at international level with India. The study reveals that there are significant differences in the the SJR score of 8.459 whereas the journals "Progress in SJR scores of international level journals and Indian journals. In Development Studies" published from India is on top with the SJR seven subject areas, journals published from India are nowhere score of 0.743. Interestingly all the 10 international journals comparable with international level. published either from United States or United Kingdom.
256 International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology | October-December 2016 | Vol. 6 | Issue 4 Table 10: International and Indian SJR of top 10 Publications in Social Sciences Rank International Journals Country SJR Indian Journals SJR 1 American Political Science Review United Kingdom 8.459 Progress in Development Studies 0.743 2 National Vital Statistics Reports United States 7.849 Contributions to Indian Sociology 0.703 3 Political Analysis United Kingdom 7.164 Young 0.474 4 American Journal of Political Science United Kingdom 6.312 Journal of Developing Societies 0.354 5 Administrative Science Quarterly United States 6.230 Population Review 0.294 6 Nature Climate Change United Kingdom 5.991 South Asia Research 0.269 7 International Organization United Kingdom 5.420 Strategic Analysis 0.254 8 Information and Organization United Kingdom 5.287 Journals of Intellectual Property Rights 0.205 9 Journal of Research in Science United States 5.236 DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information 0.203 Teaching Technology 10 Review of Economics and Statistics United States 4.912 Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics 0.193
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