economics journals, disaggregating by country/region, quality of journal, and fields of specialization. We document striking …

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

-reviewed journal lead to more subsequent citations for papers that are already available in working paper series? Our data set … the publication in a peer reviewed journal results in around twice the number of yearly citations relative to working …Many papers in economics that are published in peer reviewed journals are initially released in widely circulated …

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