We compute confidence intervals for recursive impact factors, that take into account that some citations are more … prestigious than others, as well as for the associated ranks of journals, applying the methods to the population of economics … journals. The Quarterly Journal of Economics is clearly the journal with greatest impact, the confidence interval for its rank …

We construct a meta-ranking of 315 economics journals based on 38 different individual rankings. Our ranking … lists. In our meta-ranking the top five journals are given by: Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy …

enhance reputations of their journals. Publication probability depends on the number of academic journals. Results show that … citations and publications. However, it is not clear whether the quality of published research is enhanced. Thus, changes in … competition in publishing markets have the potential to exacerbate the quantity-quantity trade offs in research markets. …

citations. Specifically, we address the question: To what extent does the stamp of approval obtained by publishing in a peer …Many papers in economics that are published in peer reviewed journals are initially released in widely circulated … working paper series. This raises the question about the benefit of publishing in a peer-reviewed journal in terms of …

between 2000 and 2010. The effect is an around 25% higher number of citations on average across the investigated journals. …Does it pay off in terms of citations to issue an article as a working paper before it is published in a refereed … journal? We show empirically that the answer is yes, using 3167 articles published in five of the top journals in economics …

journals (including normalized scores for 192,524 papers) by assigning them to four citation impact classes and identifying 33 … outstandingly cited economics journals. …

number of citations, the h-index, the citations of the most cited paper as well as the hardly honorable Pi …

, we find no statistically significant relationship between alphabetized co-authorship and citations in economics using six …

citations relative to non-Covid papers. …

We investigate the relationship between article title characteristics and citations in economics using a large data set …