Purpose – This paper aims to look at the Oppenheim effect in scholarly journal publishing. Design/methodology/approach – Discusses the quality control of refereed scholarly journals. Findings – A key finding of this research was that editors perceived originality to be the most important...

Purpose – The purpose of this short paper is to focus on the parallel games of journal rankings and citation counts. Design/methodology/approach – The paper analyses journal ranking and citation procedures. Findings – Journal rankings can often reflect personal bias, and therefore can be...