Measuring Internationality: Reflections and Perspective on Academic Journals

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10498/16486
DOI: 10.1556/Scient.67.2006.1.4
ISSN: 0138-9130
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2006-01-01Department
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Scientometrics - 2006, vol. 67 n. 1 pp. 45-65Abstract
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 int
ernationality and to supplement its minimal literal meaning, the present study suggests
that no single criterion alone is sufficient. This paper surveys, critically
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assesses and extends the
existing measures of internationality in the context of academic p
ublishing and identifies those
criteria that are most clearly resolved and amenable to quantitative analysis. When applied,
however, to a case study of four thematically
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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,
con
structed from a combination of suitably weighted criteria, is the only way to unambiguously
quantify the
degree
of internationality.
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Measuring Internationality; Academic JournalCollections
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