Download 2016 Research Incentive Program Journal and Publisher Ranking

RESEARCH INCENTIVES PROGRAM 2016-18
JOURNAL AND PUBLISHER QUALIFICATION
1 Journals
General qualification rules: These are based on the journal’s Article Influence Score (AIS), as
computed and reported by the Journal Citation Reports (on the web site
https://jcr.incites.thomsonreuters.com/JCRJournalHomeAction.action). Due to the lengthy nature of
the journal’s review process, AIS scores from the 3 years previous to publication (i.e., 2013-2015
for a 2016 publication) can be used for journal qualification.
A tier: Any journal with AIS greater than or equal 5.
B tier: Any journal with AIS greater than or equal 2 (and less than 5).
C tier: Any journal with AIS greater than or equal 1 (and less than 2).
Journals without AIS, or with AIS lower than 1, do not meet the qualification criteria.
Exceptional qualification rule: The A tier is supplemented as follows. Consider the following JCR
subject categories: “Economics,” “International Relations,” “Law,” “Political Science,”
“Management,” “Mathematics. Applied,” “Psychology,” “Sociology,” “Statistics & Probability.”
The A list also includes the two journals in each of the above subject categories which, regardless
of their AIS, satisfy the following criteria:
1) They are highest in the AIS ranking (in one of the 3 years previous to publication, see
above),
2) They do not specialize in publishing surveys
3) They do not appear in any other subject category (from the list above)
2 Publishers
As journals, publishers are divided in three tiers. To reflect the different prestige that publishers
may enjoy in different disciplines, the A tier listing differs across Economics and Statistics (ES) and
the other Social Sciences (SS). 1 In contrast, the B and C listings are common for ES and SS.
Tier A – ES
American Mathematical Society
Cambridge University Press
University of Chicago Press
Harvard University Press
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Johns Hopkins University Press
MIT Press
The listing to be applied for a given manuscript will be determined by the field affiliation (“SSD”)
of the author(s), with the most generous ranking applied in case of joint inter-disciplinary efforts.
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Oxford University Press
Princeton University Press
SIAM
Yale University Press
Tier A – SS
Cambridge University Press
Cornell University Press
Harvard University Press
Princeton University Press
Oxford University Press
Stanford University Press
UC Berkeley Press
Tier B
Academic Press
Addison Wesley
Basil Blackwell
Birkhauser
CPC Press
Elsevier North-Holland
McGraw-Hill
Norton
Palgrave-Macmillan
Polity
Prentice-Hall
Sage
Springer
Wiley
Tier C
Amsterdam University Press
Ashgate
Brill Academic Publishers
Bruylant
Chapman and Hall
Edward Elgar
Emerald Publishing
Frank Cass
Hart Publishing
Il Mulino
Kluwer
Laterza
Manchester University Press
Peter Lang
Policy Press
Praeger
Routledge
Rowman and Littlefield
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