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 …

inferior substitute to the publishing paper.  The former policy is likely to result in authors paying to publish, which may … lead to a reduction in the quantity of published papers and may make authors less willing to publish in selective journals …