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Evaluating the Evaluators: Accrediting Knowledge and the Ranking of Political Science Journals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

James P. Lester
James P. Lester*
Affiliation:
University of Oklahoma and Colorado State University
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , September 1990 , pp. 445 - 447
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1990

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The author wishes to thank Stephan Schmidt, department of political science, University of Linkoping, Sweden, and David R. Morgan, department of political science, University of Oklahoma, for their helpful comments on this paper.

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