RT journal article
T1 Measuring Internationality: Reflections and Perspective on Academic Journals
A1 Buela-Casal, Gualberto
A1 Perakakis, Pandelis
A1 Taylor, Michael
A1 Checa Fernández, Purificación
A2 Psicología
K1 Measuring Internationality
K1 Academic Journal
AB Internationality as a concept is being applied ambiguously, particularly in the world ofacademic journal publication. Although different criteria are used by scientometrists in order tomeasure internationality and to supplement its minimal literal meaning, the present study suggeststhat no single criterion alone is sufficient. This paper surveys, critically-assesses and extends theexisting measures of internationality in the context of academic publishing and identifies thosecriteria 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 andClinical Psychology using descriptivestatistics and the Gini Coefficient, the measurement ofinternationality using these criteria was found to be ambiguous. We conclude that internationalityis 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 unambiguouslyquantify thedegreeof internationality.
PB Springer
SN 0138-9130
YR 2006
FD 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/16486
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/16486
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 15-nov-2026