The Research Assessment Exercise: its effect on scholarly journal publishing
Learned PublishingPublished 1 January 2000
Leo Walford
Citations17
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score0.77
SNIP1.40
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The effect of the RAE on the journal publishing system is examined, looking at the communities of authors, editors, and publishers.
Abstract
The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) plays a major part in academic life in the UK. One of its chief measures of ‘research performance’ relates to the publication of articles in refereed scholarly journals. This paper examines the effect of the RAE on the journal publishing system, looking at the communities of authors, editors, and publishers.
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Decision Sciences