Homework Specification: Identify and rank the journals in a research area
List 8 to 20 journals in a particular research area, and rank them
according to their reputation, e.g.,
most prestigious,
medium quality,
lower quality.
Indicate how you arrived at your rankings, e.g., talked to
people knowledgeable in the field (who?), on-line rankings,
acceptance rates (where did you find these?).
Also, you may want to include a comment or two in connection with some of
the journals. For example:
- This is a broad journal. Papers from my area appear in here only
occasionally, but when they do, they are good ones.
- This is an applications-oriented journal, but people in my area
publish here often --- usually with co-authors from the
application area.
Approach this exercise as if you were writing an annotated list of journals for
a graduate student who will come after you --- someone who
will attempt to live up to
the incredibly high standards you have set!