What are the top five journals in economics? A new meta-ranking. Issue 6 (1st February 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bornmann, Lutz; Butz, Alexander; Wohlrabe, Klaus
• Is Part Of: Applied economics. Volume 50:Issue 6(2018)
• Page Start: 659
• Page End: 675
• Publication Date: 2018-02-01
• Subjects: Meta-ranking -- aggregation -- Web of Science -- Scopus -- Google Scholar -- RePEc; A12 -- A14; Economics -- Periodicals; 330
• DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2017.1332753
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-6846

Abstract

ABSTRACT: We construct a meta-ranking of 277 economics journals based on 22 different rankings. The ranking incorporates bibliometric indicators from four different databases (Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, and RePEc). We account for the different scaling of the bibliometric indicators by standardizing each ranking score. We run a principal component analysis to assign weights to each ranking. In our meta-ranking, the top five journals are given by: Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Economic Literature ( JEL), Journal of Finance, and Econometrica . Additionally, leaving out the JEL as a survey journal and the finance journals in our top 10 list we confirm the perceived top five journals in the economics profession.