. Rankings are gaining prominence as countries adopt regular research assessment exercises that especially reward publication in … high impact journals. Yet even within a rankings-oriented discipline like economics there is no agreement on how … aggressively lower ranked journals are down-weighted and in how wide is the universe of journals considered. Moreover, since it is …

-flow differences between a number of leading journals in economics and a representative science category, and between higher and lower … ranked economics journals. Our findings suggest that short-term citation counting, either directly or indirectly, for … to be systematically biased in favour of lower ranked journals. …