impact is the standard method in bibliometrics. Since citation rates for journal papers differ substantially across …This study is intended to facilitate fair research evaluations in economics. Field- and timenormalization of citation … publication years and Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification codes, citation rates should be normalized for the …

for economics and business research are critically evaluated. Their lists suggest that the quality of top business … journals is substantially lower than that of many economics journals. If, however, the authors of these lists do not want to … claim a general superiority of one discipline (economics) over another one (business), they should give a clear indication …

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. …