[Purpose/significance] This article aims at exploring different methods of evaluating academic journals, so that we can obtain more effective, fair and valuable information, and then promote the development of theory and the practice of journal evaluation.[Method/process] In this paper, a new method of academic journal evaluation is constructed by introducing FDH model that is used for efficiency evaluation in economics into bibliometrics. Then, we selected seven indicators to evaluate 41 journals in library and information science, and carried out correlation analysis between the evaluation results and other periodical rankings.[Result/conclusion] Firstly, the evaluation results of journal evaluation method based on FDH are more objective, and these results are consistent with other well-known reference rankings. Secondly, this method aggregates several journal evaluation indicators, which not only can calculate the score of each journal, but also can provide more valuable information. So, it may be benefit for the editorial board to formulate strategies. For example, the FDH model can identify "benchmarks" and "dominating journals" of the evaluated journal. The journal can find out its own shortcomings and gaps through comparing journals whose performance is close to it, and then achieve the goal of continual improvement and surpassing competitors.
Zhao Rongying
,
Wang Jianpin
. A New Method of Academic Journal Evaluation Based on FDH Model[J]. Library and Information Service, 2018
, 62(8)
: 100
-106
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DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2018.08.013
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