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Thursday, March 8, 2018

H-Index for Journals

In an earlier rant, I suggested that journals move from tracking inane citation "impact factors" to citation "H indexes" or similar, just as routinely done when evaluating individual authors. It turns out that RePEc already does it, here. There are literally many thousands of journals ranked. I show the top 25 below. Interestingly, four "field" journals actually make the top 10, effectively making them "super (uber?) field journals" (J. Finance, J. Financial Economics, J. Monetary Economics, and J. Econometrics). For example, J. Econometrics is basically indistinguishable from Review of Economic Studies. 

The rankings

RankJournalFactorAdjusted
citations		ItemsAll
citations
1American Economic Review, American Economic Association2623897539641395549
2Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press2352275342978229129
3Econometrica, Econometric Society (also covers Econometrica, Econometric Society )2332660313530267883
4The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press2312116382311212892
5Journal of Finance, American Finance Association2102130764558215655
6Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier1651380732654149337
7Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier (also covers Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, Elsevier )1581237053334128056
8Review of Economic Studies, Oxford University Press1571143592317115072
9Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier1491318234160141376
10Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association1457291689173201
11Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association14577073167377758
12The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press1401093303953109953
13Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society (also covers Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society )1371037633663104399
14Journal of International Economics, Elsevier12276446298381228
15Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies11966261165767063
16Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier11790038372295659
17Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier11365314311168204
18European Economic Review, Elsevier11174123387075847
19Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier10883540423890223
20Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals (also covers Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, American Statistical Association )10544499172644729
21Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing (also covers Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing )10451991295552610
22Management Science, INFORMS9570575689176945
23Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier9361760482972982
24International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association (also covers International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association )9148542253748823
25Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press9137921108438993

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