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Buela-Casal, Gualberto, Perakakis, Pandelis, Taylor, Michael 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3473-3478 and Checa, Purificación
(2006)
Measuring internationality:Reflections and perspectives on academic journals.
Scientometrics, 67 (1).
pp. 45-65.
ISSN 0138-9130
Abstract
Internationality as a concept is being applied ambiguously, particularly in the world of academic journal publication. Although different criteria are used by scientometrists in order to measure internationality and to supplement its minimal literal meaning, the present study suggests that no single criterion alone is sufficient. This paper surveys, critically-assesses and extends the existing measures of internationality in the context of academic publishing and identifies those criteria that are most clearly resolved and amenable to quantitative analysis. When applied, however, to a case study of four thematically-connected journals from the field of Health and Clinical Psychology using descriptive statistics and the Gini Coefficient, the measurement of internationality using these criteria was found to be ambiguous. We conclude that internationality is best viewed as a mathematically fuzzy entity and that a single measure Internationality Index, constructed from a combination of suitably weighted criteria, is the only way to unambiguously quantify the degree of internationality.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | social sciences(all),computer science applications,library and information sciences ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climatic Research Unit |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Dec 2022 03:51 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Sep 2024 16:58 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/90070 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11192-006-0050-z |
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