Publication behaviour and (dis)qualification of chief editors in Turkish national Social Sciences journals

Figures & Tables

Papers	Insider	SSCI	WOS	FWOS	Scopus	FScopus	H-index
Business & Economics Editors (n=123)
0	15%	47%	29%	43%	37%	50%	41%
1-2	24%	25%	22%	31%	16%	24%	28%
3 or more	61%	28%	49%	26%	47%	26%	31%
Education Editors (n=65)
0	15%	31%	21%	31%	26%	28%	23%
1-2	26%	26%	17%	28%	14%	25%	34%
3 or more	59%	43%	62%	41%	60%	48%	43%
Foreign Ph.D. Editors (n=61)
0	25%	36%	25%	31%	36%	39%	39%
1-2	25%	15%	16%	23%	8%	15%	28%
3 or more	50%	49%	59%	46%	56%	46%	33%
Web of Science & Scopus Journal Editors (n=86)
0	10%	58%	33%	36%	52%	57%	55%
1-2	16%	14%	22%	33%	11%	14%	16%
3 or more	74%	28%	45%	31%	37%	29%	29%
Professor Editors (n=280)
0	5%	51%	39%	48%	48%	54%	53%
1-2	15%	21%	20%	25%	13%	19%	23%
3 or more	80%	28%	41%	27%	39%	27%	24%
The most underqualified: Non-mobile Editors (inbreeding) (n=207)
0	5%	66%	44%	54%	60%	65%	64%
1-2	18%	21%	29%	30%	12%	19%	21%
3 or more	77%	13%	27%	16%	28%	16%	15%

Editor	Insider	SSCI	WOS	FWOS	Scopus	FScopus	National	WOS Citation	WOS h-index	Scopus Citation	Scopus h-index
The most qualified 25	137	597	712	294	781	319	456	13,284	263	15,550	282
editors (%)	3.7%	52.1%	39.4%	31.7%	41.7%	34.4%	4.8%	63.3%	36.5%	61.5%	35.6%
The least qualified 25	740	42	75	38	91	67	1,225	827	51	1,199	50
editors (%)	20.1%	3.6%	4.1%	4.1%	4.8%	7.2%	13%	3.9%	7.1%	4.7%	6.3%

	Insider	SSCI	FWOS	Scopus	FScopus	WOS Citations	Scopus Citations	ISRA	NASA
Foreign Ph.D.	-0.526**	0.061	0.613**	0.113	0.718**	0.548*	0.761**	-1.324***	-1.236***
	[-2.40]	[0.17]	[2.27]	[0.33]	[2.34]	(1.78)	(2.31)	[-3.58]	[-3.50]
Non-mobile	0.015*	-0.812***	-0.308**	-0.571**	-0.485**	-0.154	-0.092	0.462**	0.610***
	[1.65]	[-3.17]	[-1.98]	[-2.40]	[-2.52]	(-0.96)	(-0.55)	[2.17]	[2.82]
WOS	0.014	0.230	0.744***	0.394	0.712***	0.569***	0.544***	-0.442*	-0.508**
	[0.14]	[0.94]	[4.29]	[1.64]	[2.96]	(2.86)	(2.63)	[-1.78]	[-2.07]
Experience	0.599***	0.776***	0.324***	0.721***	0.562***	0.341***	0.399***	0.051	-0.11
	[8.18]	[5.72]	[3.28]	[5.64]	[4.35]	(4.99)	(5.58)	[0.41]	[-0.77]
Female	-0.241**	-0.192	-0.289*	-0.216	-0.329	-0.031	-0.007	-0.226	-0.054
	[-2.46]	[-0.84]	[-1.71]	[-1.00]	[-1.62]	(-0.19)	(-0.04)	[-112]	[-0.26]
Public	-0.217**	-0.155	-0.187	-0.274	-0.386**	-0.42***	-0.477***	0.385**	0.464**
	[-2.56]	[-0.66]	[-1.26]	[-1.34]	[-2.H]	(-2.88)	(-3.02)	[2.16]	[2.43]
Research	0.024	0.772***	0.107	0 595***	0.380**	0.141	0.035	-0.276	-0 577***
	[0.26]	[3.39]	[0.68]	[2.81]	[2.04]	(0.92)	(0.22)	[-1.35]	[-3.05]
Field controls	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Constant	0.242	-2.098***	-1.04**	-1 51***	-1.574***	-0.098	-0.162	1.48***	2.926***
	[0.93]	[-4.15]	[-2.55]	[-2.89]	[-3.01]	(-0.35)	(-0.54)	[2.99]	[5.16]
χ²/F	155.56	166.38	110.78	200.12	167.23	17.92	17.52	n/a	n/a
Log likelihood	-1,592.7	-827.77	-895.62	-1,034.17	-815.6	n/a	n/a	-194.68	-126.05
N	573	573	573	573	573	573	573	534	559

Papers	Insider	SSCI	WOS	FWOS	Scopus	FScopus	National	WOS h-index
0	63 (11%)	357 (62%)	256 (45%)	304 (53%)	330 (58%)	359 (63%)	18 (3%)	357 (62%)
1	75 (13%)	67 (12%)	81 (14%)	92 (16%)	43 (8%)	54 (9%)	10 (2%)	76 (13%)
2	51 (9%)	41 (7%)	57 (10%)	59 (10%)	38 (7%)	49 (9%)	15 (3%)	45 (8%)
3	61 (11%)	25 (4%)	37 (6%)	36 (6%)	26 (4%)	27 (5%)	16 (3%)	30 (5%)
4	44 (7%)	22 (4%)	35 (6%)	28 (5%)	20 (3%)	18 (3%)	19 (3%)	20 (3%)
5	44 (7%)	12 (2%)	18 (3%)	15 (3%)	21 (4%)	18 (3%)	24 (4%)	15 (3%)
6-10	131 (23%)	26 (4%)	52 (9%)	26 (4%)	53 (9%)	31 (5%)	150 (26%)	21 (4%)
11-20	72 (12%)	13 (2%)	23 (4%)	11 (2%)	19 (3%)	13 (2%)	165 (29%)	5 (1%)
20+	32 (6%)	10 (2%)	14 (2%)	2 (0%)	16 (3%)	2 (0%)	156 (27%)	4 (1%)

Area	Journal	WOS Journal	Scopus Journal	Public U. Journal	Editor	Foreign Ph.D. Ed.	Non-mobile	Female Editor
Education	51	7	2	33	65	7	20	26
BUS&ECON	93	11	3	50	123	17	46	22
GSS	62	0	0	43	94	8	29	18
SCIL	115	23	11	57	154	17	64	39
Theology	55	7	4	37	65	6	19	8
Law	28	2	0	19	39	4	17	11
Comm	13	3	0	11	17	1	6	9
Art	15	2	1	10	16	0	6	5
Total	432	55	21	260	573	60	207	138

	Insider	SSCI	Scopus	National	ISRA	NASA	Citations	Public	Research	WOS	For. Ph.D.	Female	Exp.
Insider	1
SSCI	-0.06	1
Scopus	-0.05	0.86***	1
National	0.7***	0.03	0.10**	1
ISRA	0.24***	-0 95***	-0.80***	0.09**	1
NASA	0.17***	-0.97***	-0.81***	0.12***	0.98***	1
Citations	-0.03	0.79***	0.85***	0.09**	-0.74***	-0.76***	1
Public	-0.11***	-0.14***	-0.13***	-0.07	0.11***	0.14***	-0.1**	1
Research	0.14***	0.07*	0.03	0	-0.05	-0.07*	0.03	0.17***	1
WOS	0.06	0.08*	0.08*	-0.04	-0.06	-0.08*	0.09**	0.15***	0.22***	1
For. PhD	-0.14***	0.14***	0.12***	-0.16***	-0.16***	-0.16***	0.09**	0.19***	0.11**	0.04	1
Female	-0.1**	-0.00	-0.01	-0.12***	-0.03	-0.03	0.01	0.19***	0.21***	0.05	0.09**	1
Experience	0.43***	0.17***	0.13***	0.35***	-0.09**	-0.13***	0.12***	-0.07*	0.23***	0.11***	0.08*	0.01	1
Non-mobile	0.16***	-0.09**	-0.06	0.04	0.1**	0.09**	-0.05	0.16***	0.42***	0.17***	-0.2***	0.1**	0.1**

Editor Type	Insider	SSCI	WOS	FWOS	CWOS	Scopus	FScopus	National	WOS Citation	WOS h-index	ISRA	INNA	NASA
All Editors (n=573)	6.4	2.0	3.1	1.6	1.6	3.3	1.6	16.5	36.6	1.26	3.21	0.39	0.89
WOS & Scopus (n=86)	6.9	2.5	4.3	2.7	2.6	4.1	2.6	14.7	31.6	1.69	2.73	0.47	0.85
Non-WOS & Scopus (n=487)	6.3	1.9	2.9	1.4	1.4	3.1	1.5	16.8	37.6	1.19	3.31	0.38	0.90
Foreign Ph.D. (n=61)	4.1	4.3	5.6	3.6	3.4	6.6	4.3	10.9	80.9	2.40	0.95	0.38	0.72
Locally mobile (n=305)	6.1	2.0	3.1	1.5	1.5	3.1	1.5	17.2	39.7	1.17	3.10	0.35	0.90
Non-mobile (n=207)	7.6	1.4	2.6	1.2	1.1	2.6	1.1	17.0	19.4	1.06	5.40	0.45	0.92
Research univ. (n=237)	7.3	2.5	3.6	1.7	1.7	3.7	1.8	17.0	40.8	1.40	2.96	0.43	0.87
Non-research u. (n=336)	5.8	1.7	2.8	1.5	1.5	3.0	1.5	16.1	33.8	1.16	3.44	0.36	0.91
Female (n=138)	5.1	1.8	2.7	1.2	1.4	2.8	1.2	13.6	29.5	1.17	2.83	0.38	0.88
Male (n=435)	6.8	2.1	3.3	1.7	1.7	3.4	1.8	17.4	39.0	1.29	3.31	0.39	0.89
Education (n=65)	5.5	3.5	6.0	2.9	2.8	6.5	3.1	19.6	50.1	2.66	1.58	0.28	0.85
BUS & ECON (n=123)	6.8	4.2	6.1	2.9	2.7	6.7	3.2	18.9	104	2.60	1.62	0.36	0.82
GSS (n=94)	5.7	0.9	1.8	1.0	0.9	1.8	1.0	17.3	11.7	0.76	6.36	0.33	0.95
SCIL(n=154)	7.9	1.8	2.3	1.2	1.3	2.4	1.2	15.8	22.9	0.76	4.47	0.50	0.90
Theology (n=65)	5.5	0.1	1.1	1.0	1.0	0.3	0.3	12.8	0.4	0.19	50.5	0.43	0.99
Law (n=39)	5.3	0.2	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.3	12.2	2.53	0.24	25.1	0.43	0.98
Comm (n=17)	2.9	1.0	1.9	1.3	1.1	1.7	0.9	10.5	9.7	0.94	2.88	0.27	0.91
Art (n=16)	6.7	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.5	14.7	0.6	0.13	25.2	0.46	0.98
PROFESSOR (n=280)	9.2	3.0	4.4	2.1	2.1	4.9	2.4	21.9	56.9	1.78	3.04	0.42	0.88
ASCPROF (n=147)	4.7	1.5	2.7	1.5	1.6	2.7	1.4	15.3	30.1	1.14	3.12	0.31	0.91
ASTPROF (n=101)	2.9	0.6	1.4	0.8	0.8	1.0	0.5	7.8	5.7	0.50	4.48	0.37	0.92
RESAST (n=27)	3.9	0.1	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2	8.1	0.9	0.08	33.6	0.48	0.99
Non-academic (n= 19)	0.8	0.2	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.2	2.2	6.0	0.24	4.33	0.35	0.93