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The relationship between international editorial board composition and citation measures in political science, business, and genetics journals

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Three measures of international composition on journal editorial boards - the number of countries represented on the board, the number of international members, and the proportion of international board members - were correlated with impact factor and total citation data in the 1999 Journal Citation Reportsfor 153 business, political science, and genetics journals. With a few exceptions the relationship between international editorial board composition and citation measures was non-linear, leading to the conclusion that international membership on the editorial board can not generally be used as a marker of better journal quality. Yet further investigation is warranted due to positive correlations between some editorial board and citation measures for non-U.S. business and political science journals.

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Nisonger, T.E. The relationship between international editorial board composition and citation measures in political science, business, and genetics journals. Scientometrics 54, 257–268 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016065929026

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