Resumen
This article focuses on information science (IS) journals. As the pressure for scientifically rigorous and relevant research mounts, authors need to identify those outlets with the highest visibility for their work and those publications in which readers seek the best sources for informed IS research. Increasingly, academics and institutions all over the world place significant importance to journal rankings for promotion, tenure and assessment purposes. In particular, the U.S. college and university faculty promotion and tenure decisions are decided on the basis of academic research output in top tier journals. Furthermore, the research assessment exercise in Great Britain ranks university departments for the purpose of distributing government research funds. This process measures research excellence by assessing where faculty publishes, taking into account the respective journal standing. There is evidence to suggest that universities on both sides of the Atlantic increasingly use journal lists for internal assessment and promotion purposes.