Taking the Temperature: A Meta-Ranking of Economics Journals

Arbeitspapier

We construct a meta–ranking of 315 economics journals based on 38 different individual rankings. Our ranking incorporates both bibliometric measures from three different databases (Web of Knowledge, RePEc and Google Scholar) and previous rankings in the literature. Furthermore, we account for the different scaling of all bibliometric measures by standardizing each ranking score. Finally, we aggregate all rankings using a double–weighting algorithm which corrects for incomplete lists. In our meta–ranking the top five journals are given by: Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, American Economic Review and Journal of Economic Literature.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 5726

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines ; Sociology of Economics
• Subject: meta-ranking ; economics journals ; aggregation ; citations ; RePEc ; Google Scholar ; Web of Knowledge

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Wohlrabe, Klaus
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2016

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/128424
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET