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Ranking Agricultural Economics Departments by AJAE Page Counts: A Reappraisal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

Henry W. Kinnucan  and
Greg Traxler
Henry W. Kinnucan
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University
Greg Traxler
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University
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Abstract

AJAE per capita page counts provide one measure of an institution's research strength. In this article we refine Willis et al.'s measure of department size and, based on the refined measure, recompute departmental rankings for North American institutions. Results indicate that Northeastern United States departments are more widely represented among the top 20 institutions than 20 years ago and that two Canadian institutions—Guelph and British Columbia—rank in the top 12. The median AJAE publication frequency for the top 30 research institutions is about one article per research faculty member every 12 years. The AJAE page-count measure was found to be highly correlated (R2 = 0.82) with citation counts, whether narrowly or broadly defined. Thus, AJAE page counts appear to provide a simple yet valid representation of institutional research productivity.

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Agricultural and Resource Economics Review , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , October 1994 , pp. 194 - 199
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Copyright © 1994 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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