Yeah the metrics are definitely not 1:1 with perceptions. I think JEPP and WEP are great, but having them at 4 and 8 on google scholar's rankings doesn't fit with my mental landscape
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to be fair I think there's a real question of whether it's actually the perceptions that are wrong and that maybe some of the traditional top tier journals should be downgraded a bit in where we place them
It’s worth remembering that the correlation between a journal being hard to get into and publishing articles that are widely cited is not equal to 1.0…
My impression from back when I was politics of European integration person was that there was a large literature on European stuff published by Europeans in places like these that Americans basically ignore and prestige ratings probably align with where Americans publish.
A bit of both, I think they probably thought the top American journals were the most prestigious, but rated some of the more competitive European ones a close second - I was pretty pleased to get into WEP and EUP - whereas in suspect most Americans do not.
It's funny working with coauthors in other subfields for this project. Some journals that loom very large in my mental landscape (Electoral Studies, Party Politics, POQ) but barely register for them and vice versa
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