few anecdotes to illustrate the work of an academic journal editor. …

, journal scaling and article-splitting. The ranking of economics journals is presented and is compared to rankings by …A ranking of journals is manipulable if a particular journal's position can be improved by making additional citations …

use data on submissions to the Journal of International Economics to help answer these questions. …There is little work on the inner workings of journals. What factors seem to affect the ability to publish in a journal …

We compile a ranking of the research output of all Nobel Laureates in economics using the Handelsblatt methodology and … of the employed journal weights and draw conclusions on the Handelsblatt';s methodology. …

method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics. Of 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles, the UK produced 10 …

This paper examines the practical usefulness of two new journal performance metrics, namely the Eigenfactor score …, which may be interpreted as measuring “Journal Influence”, and the Article Influence score, using the Thomson Reuters ISI … journal (including journal self citations). It is shown that the Sciences and Social Sciences are different in terms of the …

academic journal quality and research impact using a survey of international experts from a national project on ranking …. (2011a, b, c)). The RAMs include the most widely used RAM, namely the classic 2-year impact factor including journal self … citations (2YIF), 2-year impact factor excluding journal self citations (2YIF*), 5-year impact factor including journal self …

rankings. While important regional differences emerge, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the American Economic Review, the … an active working paper series in 2010. It proceeds to construct a novel journal ranking that is more suited for monetary … authorities than the academic journal rankings currently in vogue. We report individual country rankings as well as the global …