Does the ABDC Journal Classification Create Unequal Opportunities?

de Jong, Abe; Veld, Chris

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3565550

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Does the ABDC Journal Classification Create Unequal Opportunities?

37 Pages Posted: 17 Apr 2020 Last revised: 11 Apr 2022

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Abe de Jong

University of Groningen; Monash University

Chris Veld

Monash University

Date Written: April 11, 2022

Abstract

We investigate whether the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) journal classification list creates unequal publishing opportunities. We analyze several factors, such as the number of journals in each category, the number of papers published per year, the number of authors per paper, and the number of academics in each discipline. We find that there are more publishing opportunities for academics in Management and Economics, and fewer for those in Accounting, Finance, Marketing, and Econometrics. This finding applies to the highest category (A*), and the highest two categories (A* and A) combined.

Keywords: Academic journal rankings; journal classification; publishing opportunities

JEL Classification: G00

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de Jong, Abe and Veld, Chris, Does the ABDC Journal Classification Create Unequal Opportunities? (April 11, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3565550 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3565550