On the Use and Abuse of Economics Journal Rankings

Bibliographic Data

ID9716057
AuthorsDavid N Laband (Georgia Institute of Technology, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume123
Issue570
PagesF223-F254
Publication date2013-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Economic Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/ecoj.12067
OpenAlexW2129220359
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited12

There are several aspects of journal‐level citations that, taken together, provide considerably more information than mean citations per article. This information is likely to be more useful, in terms of helping someone form more accurate expectations of the quality of a given article published in a journal, than the information provided by mean citations per article only. I provide data that both illustrate this point and offer a range of information about the citations to papers published in 248 economics journals during the period 2001–5

Actuarial science · Citation · Economics · Epistemology · Journal ranking · Library science · Point (geometry · Positive economics · Quality (philosophy · Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance · Computer Science · Innovations in Educational Methods · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · scientometrics and bibliometrics research

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