Revealed Preference for Economics Journals: Citations as Dollar Votes

The relative popularity of 40 economics journals is estimated using citations from the Social Sciences Citation Index as a proxy for revealed preference by authors. Three ranking schemes are presented, based on citations (1977-1982) of all articles published in 1974-1976: total number of citations,...

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Published in:Public choice 1985-01, Vol.46 (3), p.317-324
Main Authors: Laband, David N., Sophocleus, John P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bibliographic citations
Citation analysis
Citation indexes
Dollar votes
Economic systems
Economic theory
Economics
Evaluation
Financial economics
Literature
Periodical indexing
Political economy
Proxy reporting
Proxy statements
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Summary:The relative popularity of 40 economics journals is estimated using citations from the Social Sciences Citation Index as a proxy for revealed preference by authors. Three ranking schemes are presented, based on citations (1977-1982) of all articles published in 1974-1976: total number of citations, citations per article, & the cross-product of both. Variations between rankings by total citations & citations per article are discussed. In the "overall" ranking, the Journal of Political Economy holds the top position by a fair margin over the American Economic Review, both of which ranked substantially over the rest. 3 Tables, 11 References. AA
ISSN:0048-5829
1573-7101
DOI:10.1007/BF00124429