Beyond Rankings : Using Coginitive Mapping to Understand What Health Care Journals Represent  

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Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 5 (Mar. 2006), page 1192-1204.
Topik: journal rankings; cognitive maps; journal importance; north america

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Studies of journal ratings are often controversial. Indices including impact factors, acceptance rates, expert opinions, and ratings of knowledge, relevance and quality have been used to organize journals hierarchically. While there may be some validity on consensus rankings, it is unclear what purpose in actually achieved by these endeavours. Impact factors probably help researchers identify authoritative journals, but other rankings likely indicate little more than institutionalized perceptions of prestige. Ranking schema used to derive evaluative judgements do not provide information about the organization of journals from the perspective of substantive content, emphasis, or targeted audience. A cognitive mapping apporach that examines how health care management faculty members represent their perceptions of north american health care oriented journals is presented as an alternative. A card sort task and importance rating scale was mailed to faculty of north american health management programs who participated in a previous journal ranking study conducted by the authors. Completed assessments were returned from 147 respondents for a response rate of 39%. Multidimensional scaling and hierarchical cluster analyses of data provided a three dimensional, seven cluster map that illustrates the perceived similarities of journals, management practice with health policy journals. Dimension II contrasts specific domain with broad based research similar journals were weighted in terms of respondent defined importance described to each journal within a cluster. This framework supplements ratings by providing insight about how journals are cognitively organized by scholars.

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