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Political Science Journals in Comparative Perspective: Evaluating Scholarly Journals in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2009

James C. Garand ,
Micheal W. Giles ,
André Blais  and
Iain McLean
James C. Garand
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University
Micheal W. Giles
Affiliation:
Emory University
André Blais
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal
Iain McLean
Affiliation:
Nuffield College, Oxford University
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Abstract

In this article we report the results from a new survey of political scientists regarding their evaluations of journals in the political science discipline. Unlike previous research that has focused on data from the United States, we conducted an Internet survey of political scientists in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. We present data on journal evaluations, journal familiarity, and journal impact, both for our entire sample (N = 1,695) and separately for respondents from each of the three countries. We document the overall hierarchy of scholarly journals among political scientists, though we find important similarities and differences in how political scientists from these three countries evaluate the scholarly journals in the discipline. Our results suggest that there is a strong basis for cross-national integration in scholarly journal communication, though methodological differences among the three countries may be an impediment.

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The Profession
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , October 2009 , pp. 695 - 717
Copyright
Copyright © The American Political Science Association 2009

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