Analysis of structure of ranked economic academic journals in the institutional section

Abstract

The paper contains analysis of structure of ranked economic academic journals paying special attention to the place of their publishing. Therefore subpopulation of ranked academic journals in the field of economic sciences was extrapolated from list presented in the Announcement of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of 18th December 2015. The analyses were conducted both at the stage of single institutions (creating adequate rankings), as well as groups of institutions (7 homogenous groups of subjects publishing economic academic journals were distinguished, additionally in the group containing the biggest number of public colleges – 5 subgroups were distinguished). Number of journals (generally, published in English and dominating Polish, average number of journals) assigned to a given institution (group) and average number of points for a journal. Basic methods of statistic description of population and structure analyses were applied in the paper.