Ranking Of Economics Journals Research Articles

Экономические журналы в оптике наукометрии

The paper discusses the ranking of journals based on the alternative to Scientometrics, where the basic unit of information is not the citation rate of publications, but their qualitative characteristics, obtained on the basis of the regular sociological survey of the economists’ community conducted by the “Journal of NEA” in 2020. The empirical data obtained made it possible to determine the size of the audience of each journal. The paper shows that the size of the journals’ readership has a direct impact on the respondents’ assessments of the quality of publications and scientific authority of the journals. The ranking of economics journals by each particular criterion — “Interest in Journal Publications”, “Scientific Level of Journals” and “Public Prestige of Journals” is presented. Use of the “Multiway data analysis” methodology has provided measurement not only of particular criteria that reflect hidden relations between their characteristics, but also determined the weight function of their aggregation in the aggregate ranking of journals — the “Ranking-2020”. The article also contains a comparative analysis of ranking the journals on the basis of the “Rating-2020” and re-rating of the RSCI and criticizes RSCI criteria “Science Index” and “Public Examination”.

Uncertainty and the ranking of economics journals

Journal rankings often show significant changes compared to previous rankings. This gives rise to the question of how well estimated the rank of a journal is. In this contribution, we consider uncertainty in a ranking of economics journals. We use the invariant method of Pinski and Narin to rank the journals. We propose an uncertainty measure, which is based on a bootstrap approach. The measure is the average absolute change in rank, which we see as a reasonable uncertainty measure regarding rankings. We further calculate, based on the bootstrap method, 95% confidence interval for the observed values of the invariant method. We show that ranks of the highest, as well as the lowest, ranked journals are well estimated, while there is a high degree of uncertainty regarding the rank of many mid-ranked journals. The distribution of the underlying measure is useful for identifying groups of journals that are more or less of the same quality (from the point of view of the invariant measure). The journal with the highest observed value of the invariant measure, Journal of Political Economy, has the best performance and constitutes a singleton, whereas Quarterly Journal of Economics and Econometrica form the next group (there is a slight overlap between the two with respect to confidence intervals). The journals ranked between about 190–230 form another group in which there are no major quality differences between the journals, as the confidence intervals are overlapping.

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The informational basis of the completed research was the annual sociological survey of the New Economic Association and the NEA Journal, conducted in the years 2018-2019, in order to clarify the attitude of the economic community to the 27 (twenty seven) currently published Russian journals, included in the data base of RSCI (Russian Science Citations Index) (section Economics. Economic Sciences). As a result of the obtained sociological information, the size of the readership of the analyzed journals was determined and their homogeneous groups were identified with similar characteristics of the readership within each of them and with significant differences between the groups. The ranking of economic journals was presented on the basis of the Rating-2019 criterion, constructed, using the Multiway data analysis, which provides a quantitative determination of the weight function of aggregating of private ratings, as well as the aggregate rating vector of journals, that reflect hidden relationships between their characteristics; by clustering journals, statistically homogeneous groups of journals were identified. The paper presented a comparative analysis of the ranking of journals, based on Rating-2019 and RSCI ratings, censorious remarks (criticisms) were formulated, regarding the criteria Scince Index and Public Expertise, formed by RSCI.

General‐interest versus specialty journals: Using intellectual influence of econometrics research to rank economics journals and articles

AbstractThis paper demonstrates the potential problem in using existing economics journal rankings to evaluate the research productivity of scholars by constructing a new ranking of economics journals and articles. Based on 2142 econometrics sample articles published from 2000 to 2005, our ranking results show that the intellectual influence of an econometrics article published in several econometrics/statistics journals is much higher than if it were published in the most prestigious general‐interest journal. Given that a study's potential influence is integrated into the submission decision, this suggests a substantial downward bias toward econometricians when existing rankings are used to evaluate their research productivity. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Ranking of economics journals

Ranking of economics journals

Ranking of Economic Journals: A Statistical Survey and Analysis

This paper presents the results of a sample survey of economics journals and investigates the implications of unanswered questions raised in the literature especially those involving the supply side that is the production or input characteristics of journals. First, we explored the data using standard multivariate techniques. Based on the input characteristics, we were able to discern two rankings of 41 and 72 journals, respectively, depending on whether or not compensation data was included. Second, we specified a simultaneous econometric model using the Generalized Method of Moment estimator to extract significant coefficients for a priori specified parameters in the literature. The results offer newer insights on the ongoing question of the place of journals in the discipline of economics.

A STRATIFIED APPROACH TO THE RANKING OF ECONOMICS JOURNALS

This paper presents rankings of economics journals taken from a recent survey of economics department heads. Different rankings were derived for those with different research areas and those associated with different types of academic institutions. It was found that rankings were quite similar for all respondents.

Professional Research on Minority Economic Problems and its Effect on Academic Hiring

Abstract. This study in the sociology of economics analyzes the probable effects of selected social and institutional variables on the academic hiring of economists. Authorship data on minority economic problems in 29 principal economic journals were related to data on the ranking of graduate programs in economics and to data on the ranking of economic journals. Formally, this is a problem in conditional probabilities, suggesting the use of transition matrices with elements Pij. High ranking schools tend to be net Ph.D. producers, thus exporting their “surpluses”, and perhaps ideas, to other institutions. Graduates of these schools, reflecting a homogeneous grouping, tend to publish in the high ranking economic journals. Examination of the relationship between the school that granted the author's Ph.D. and his academic employment reveals a picture of interinstitutional concentration and hierarchy. Through the hiring process, these social and institutional variables probably significantly influence the direction and pace of economic idea production.