Francisco Garrido Valdés

A Journal Has Two Separable Properties: Emergent Thematic Identity and Competitive Position.

For decades the quartile of a journal has been read as a statement about the journal itself: a move from Q1 to Q2 is taken to mean decline. Yet a quartile is a relative ranking within a reference set, whereas a journal also possesses properties that arise from what it actually pu...

Reconstructing Journal Thematic Identity from Article-Level Topics: A Reproducible Framework and a Preregistered Temporal Validation

Journals are conventionally described by editorial subject classifications, yet what a journal actually publishes need not coincide with its assigned label. We present a framework for reconstructing a journal's thematic identity from article-level evidence while maintaining a str...