Notes on Journal Rankings

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Here are some quick links to reliable rankings of economics journals.

By RePec

IDEAS/RePEc Aggregate Rankings for Journals

IDEAS/RePEc Simple Impact Factors for Journals

Repec Citec

Online Rankings

EconPhd

Google Scholar

CNRS (French)

ABDC (Australia)

JUFO (Finland)

The General Online Rankings

Web of Science

Scimagojr

Scopus

The Papers that do the Rankings

Ritzberger, K. (2008). A ranking of journals in economics and related fields. German Economic Review, 9(4), 402-430.

The list of Recommended Journals on p. 143.

Barrett, C. B., Olia, A., & Bailey, D. V. (2000). Subdiscipline-specific journal rankings: whither Applied Economics?. Applied Economics, 32(2), 239-252.

The top 10 journals for each subfield of Economics on p. 242.

Engemann, K. M., & Wall, H. J. (2009). A journal ranking for the ambitious economist. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 91(3), 127-139.

The “ambitious” list on p. 134

Combes, P. P., & Linnemer, L. (2010). Inferring missing citations: A quantitative multi-criteria ranking of all journals in economics.

Other rankings:

Lehmann, R., & Wohlrabe, K. (2017). An Elo ranking for economics journals’’. Economics Bulletin, 37(4), 2282-2291.

Hole, A. R. (2017). Ranking economics journals using data from a national research evaluation exercise. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 79(5), 621-636.

Journals under JSTOR

Journals by University of Chicago

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Written on February 24, 2022