Economics Journal Rankings

Economics Journal Rankings
Economics journal rankings are one of the interesting issues that academic economists like to talk about. There are many issues that rankings of economics journals have to confront such as the number of times articles in a journal are cited, the reputation and perception of the journal amongst the profession, the history of the journal, the impact factor of the journal, the editorial board and editor of the journal, the number of "classic" articles published, the rejection rate of the journal, the reputation of the authors that publish in the journal and the status of their respective departments and the current momentum of the journal etc. Another issue concerns whether the journal is a leading "field journal" in a particular area of the discipline. For example, is it a leading journal in the areas of labor economics, international economics, behavioural economics, health economics, mathematical economics or financial economics ? As result there are a number of ranking tables and systems used to rank economic journals and below we list the most well known rankings in economics.

Economics Journal Rankings

ideas.repec.org/top/top.journals.simple.html
The Repec Journal Ranking uses and algorithm to determine the best journals. It gives a quite useful ranking of journals by
using a simple impact factor, computing a ratio of the number of citations by the number of items in the series. Use "ctrl + F" to find the journal rank of your journal.

SCImagojr.com
The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.). The above links to the Economics, Econometrics and Finance ranking

Cefage Rankings 2012-2014
The Cefage Centre for Advanced Studies in Management and Economics has published the third edition of its ranking of Economics and Management Journals for the period 2012-2014. The journal are rate from AAA, AA, A. B, C and D.

Robust Ranking of Journal Quality: An Application to Economics
The above links to a 2013 pdf of a research paper by Chia ling Chang, Esfandiar Maasoumi and Michael McAleer that looks at how to rank using the ISI Web of Science citation database. using quantifiable research assessment measures that are grouped in four distinct classes that include impact factor, mean citations and non-citations, journal policy, number of high quality papers, and journal influence and article influence.

Journal Rankings for an ambitious Economist
Kristie Engerman and Hoard Wall 2009 Federal Reserve paper is available as a pdf via the above link. Table 3 provides "Ambition-Adjusted Journal Ranking for 2008" it covers 69 major economics journals.

Kiel Institute Internal Ranking
The Kiel Institute provides a ranking of Economics Journal listing the as A, B+, B, B-, C and so on for May 2012. The list is based on a journal ranking by the German Economic Association in 2008. The above links to the pdf file.

The Keele list
Keele University produced a list of Journals ranking the a 4, 3, 2 or 1. The list became influential for a while but refers to the year 2006 and is thus a bit dated but still retains quite wide usage especially in the UK.

An updated ranking of academic journals
in economics
This paper by Pantelis Kalaitzidakis, Theofanis Mamuneas and Thanasis Stengos published in the Canadian Journal of Economics (2011) updates their 2003 study through to 2008 using Journal Citation Reports. The above links to a pdf of the paper.

A ranking of Journals in Economics and Related Fields
The above paper by Klaus Ritzberger was published by the German Economic Review in 2008. It uses a more anonymous system to rank journal rather than rely purely on citations.

New Approaches to Ranking Economics Journals
The above paper by Yolanda K. Kodrzycki and Pingkang David Yu published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in 2012 ranks journal in Economic considering their impact both in other economic journals but also in other branches of the social sciences.

Journal Quality List
Professor Anne-Wil Harzing Journal Quality list in its 50th edition for 2013 ranks journals based on numerous academic studies of journal rankings.

Sub Discipline Journal Rankings
This paper looks at rankings of Economics journal by discipline so a journal that does not rank that high in a general list but is the leader in its field gets a higher ranking.

ecosoc.org.au/rankings
The Economics Society of Australia ranks journals in economics from A* to C there are many journals listed. The last time they did this exercise was in 2008.

BostonFed - article
The above article published by the Boston Fed tries to distinguish the quality of an article rather than the quality of the Journal in which it is published. It looks at citations per article published.

Scholar.google.com/citations
The Scholar google ranks journals by giving them an H-index according to their citations on scholar google. The above links to their page for Business, Economics & Management ranking page.

Griffith.edu.au/business journal-rankings
The Australian Business Deans council ranks Business and Management, Economics, Accounting and Finance journals by classifying them as A*, A, B or C some 2498 journal get ranked with
217 getting A* (8.69%), 478 getting A (19.14%), 752 getting B (30.10%) and 1051
(42,07%) getting C.

Eigenfactor.org
Eigenfactor.org is an academic research project by Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom and sponsored by the Bergstrom Lab in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington. The project uses recent advances in network analysis and information theory to develop novel methods for evaluating the influence of scholarly periodicals and for mapping the structure of academic research. Simply tap in an economics journal to find its eigenfactor score.

academic.research.microsoft.com
The Microsoft academic research systems provides rankings for over 1,400 economics and business journals. The above links to the rankings. You can change from filed to citation ranking to get an alternative view.

library.auckland.ac.nz/subjectguides
The Auckland University library provides excellent links to articles and resources that are used to determine rankings in Business & Economics.

Repec.org/Downloads
The above link shows you ther most popular journals for article downloads. This does not mean that the Journals are ordered by academic credititions some 2000 Economics journals are covered.

Voxeu.org/top-journals-economics
The above is an interesting blog post about 9 developments and trends for publications in the Top 5 Economics journals. The American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies and Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Shanghairanking.com/SubjectEcoBus2015
The Shanghai University ranking for Business and Economic help to show the best Schools to study Economics and Business. Although not a ranking of Journals it gives a good idea where the best research takes place.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com
The above links to an interesting article by Imad Moosa that is highly critical of the Australian Business Deans list of academic journals ranking system.

JournalGuide.com
Journal Guide is a tool created by a group of software developers, former researchers, and scholarly publishing veterans at Research Square. The aim is to bring all sources of data together in one place to give authors a simple way to choose the best journal for their research. Data sources include major industry data sets, public resources, information submitted directly by journal editors.

The Australian Business School Council Deans List
This provides rankings of business, economics, finance journals awarding them grade from A* through to D. The list is used extensively in Australia to evaluate the level of research being performed and is influential in determining appointments and promotions.

EcoJobRumours.com/Journals
This is a useful page in that it gives comments about the submission and refereeing process to various well known journals. Against each journal listed are comments by authors of papers on how their article was handled.