This is like lauding the winner of a TV song contest when in reality they were voted for by millions of teenage girls.
Sure
A theory on how FRL became a top 5 journal
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This is like lauding the winner of a TV song contest when in reality they were voted for by millions of teenage girls.
Well no. It’s actually about a singer with a million fans being trashed by a singer with a guitar in a bar who “plays real music and you’re all blind to it”.
If Top journals are singers and the IF are fans - why if they are so good do they not have fans, i.e. low IFs?
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Must be smoking Indian we3d to believe FRL is above JBF/JFI/JCF/FM/CFR/JFM.
here are the breakpoints for the top 25 ranked finance journals and the rankings according to impact factor.
1. Journal Of Finance 6.8
2. Journal Of Financial Economics
3. Review Of Financial Studies
4. Finance Research Letters 3.5
5. Emerging Markets Review
6. Financial Innovation
7. Journal Of Monetary Economics 2.9
8. Review Of Finance
9. Journal Of Financial Intermediation
10. Journal Of Financial And Quantitative Analysis
11. Journal Of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money 2.5
12. Journal Of Corporate Finance
13. International Review Of Financial Analysis
14. Journal Of Financial Stability
15. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal
16. Journal Of Commodity Markets
17. Journal Of International Financial Management & Accounting
18. Journal Of Banking & Finance
19. Mathematical Finance
20. Borsa Istanbul Review
21. Annual Review Of Financial Economics 2
22. Finance And Stochastics
23. Journal Of International Money And Finance
24. Journal Of Multinational Financial Management
25. International Review Of Economics & FinanceLet me put it this way. Suppose I offer a JBF/JCF/JFI/JFM/FM for your FRL, and suppose that this offer is somehow feasible and perfectly valid. Would you keep your FRL?
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This is like lauding the winner of a TV song contest when in reality they were voted for by millions of teenage girls.
Well no. It’s actually about a singer with a million fans being trashed by a singer with a guitar in a bar who “plays real music and you’re all blind to it”.
If Top journals are singers and the IF are fans - why if they are so good do they not have fans, i.e. low IFs?FFS, it's not about 'fans' it's about doing research that advances the body of knowledge, not some paper on latest trending topic with a load of buzz keywords that might get hundreds of MSc project style papers citing it.
What do you think is the most popular song for people playing the piano and what do you think is the least? Is the former a better composition because more people play it? Of course not.
Piano for Dummies is going to get thousands of cites, it doesn't make it a 'top 5 composition series'.
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Must be smoking Indian we3d to believe FRL is above JBF/JFI/JCF/FM/CFR/JFM.
here are the breakpoints for the top 25 ranked finance journals and the rankings according to impact factor.
1. Journal Of Finance 6.8
2. Journal Of Financial Economics
3. Review Of Financial Studies
4. Finance Research Letters 3.5
5. Emerging Markets Review
6. Financial Innovation
7. Journal Of Monetary Economics 2.9
8. Review Of Finance
9. Journal Of Financial Intermediation
10. Journal Of Financial And Quantitative Analysis
11. Journal Of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money 2.5
12. Journal Of Corporate Finance
13. International Review Of Financial Analysis
14. Journal Of Financial Stability
15. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal
16. Journal Of Commodity Markets
17. Journal Of International Financial Management & Accounting
18. Journal Of Banking & Finance
19. Mathematical Finance
20. Borsa Istanbul Review
21. Annual Review Of Financial Economics 2
22. Finance And Stochastics
23. Journal Of International Money And Finance
24. Journal Of Multinational Financial Management
25. International Review Of Economics & FinanceLet me put it this way. Suppose I offer a JBF/JCF/JFI/JFM/FM for your FRL, and suppose that this offer is somehow feasible and perfectly valid. Would you keep your FRL?
Lets make it interesting, what if the FRL has 100 cites and the others are capped at 12?
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Let me put it this way. Suppose I offer a JBF/JCF/JFI/JFM/FM for your FRL, and suppose that this offer is somehow feasible and perfectly valid. Would you keep your FRL?
Lets make it interesting, what if the FRL has 100 cites and the others are capped at 12?
Under what circumstances would anyone prefer an FRL with 100 cites? Especially given that those 100 cites are from journals like Emerging Markets Review, IRFA, and IREF?
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Even if it would get the highest IF in finance, nobody -apart from some VLRM bean counters- cares about FRL ( or a journal like financial innovation). Only thing people care about is top 3 + a bunch of well-established A- and B journals (jfqa, MS, rof, jfi, jbf, jmcb,...).
It's also very risky to start targeting journals like FRL even if your department simply counts IFs, given that (i) they could drop massively next year (ii) few people outside of your department will care about these pubs, reducing your mobility.
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Must be smoking Indian we3d to believe FRL is above JBF/JFI/JCF/FM/CFR/JFM.
here are the breakpoints for the top 25 ranked finance journals and the rankings according to impact factor.
1. Journal Of Finance 6.8
2. Journal Of Financial Economics
3. Review Of Financial Studies
4. Finance Research Letters 3.5
5. Emerging Markets Review
6. Financial Innovation
7. Journal Of Monetary Economics 2.9
8. Review Of Finance
9. Journal Of Financial Intermediation
10. Journal Of Financial And Quantitative Analysis
11. Journal Of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money 2.5
12. Journal Of Corporate Finance
13. International Review Of Financial Analysis
14. Journal Of Financial Stability
15. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal
16. Journal Of Commodity Markets
17. Journal Of International Financial Management & Accounting
18. Journal Of Banking & Finance
19. Mathematical Finance
20. Borsa Istanbul Review
21. Annual Review Of Financial Economics 2
22. Finance And Stochastics
23. Journal Of International Money And Finance
24. Journal Of Multinational Financial Management
25. International Review Of Economics & FinanceLet me put it this way. Suppose I offer a JBF/JCF/JFI/JFM/FM for your FRL, and suppose that this offer is somehow feasible and perfectly valid. Would you keep your FRL?
Lets make it interesting, what if the FRL has 100 cites and the others are capped at 12?
You may consider publishing in some Indonesian or Sri Lankan econ journals. Great chance to get over 100 citations. My protips: Invite some local academic (i.e., those at their national/top universities) to join your project, and enjoy 300 citations with 5 years. They'll be greatly honored to publish your paper.
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FRL gets citations for the same reason EL does.
Nobody reads and so the shorter, the better.
Doesn’t mean FRL or EL is better. If we still had three page JPEs, you’d get even more citations with those.No. The transfer policy is ramping up IFs of Elsevier journals.
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Someone should let the editors know that Elsevier's transfer policy is ramping up Elsevier journals' IFs. I actually feel bad for AE. He's been working hard to improve RF, and now it's IF is finally higher than JFI and JFQA, but now below FRL and EMR. I would volunteer to send an email, but not sure to who, and I also don't have access to the IF scores.
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Reading this thread it's very clear how incredibly out of touch with modern publication process are so many people in visiting assistant professor posts. I guess when studying for the PhD in a fourth tier state College you didn't bother to actually attend any of those lectures offered by the university library.
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Bros this needs to be shares, from another discussion here. Someone complains that high IFs do not indicate better quality:
Quote: “Every day McDonald’s sells millions of burgers. In contrast fewer than a thousand people eat grass fed steak tartare ... which one Is better?”
Answer: “The CEO of McDonald is”
Someone got BURNED