Munich Personal RePEc Archive What are the Top Five Journals in Economics? A New Meta–ranking Bornmann, Lutz and Butz, Alexander and Wohlrabe, Klaus 17 May 2017 Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/79176/ MPRA Paper No. 79176, posted 18 May 2017 04:43 UTC What are the Top Five Journals in Economics? A New Meta–ranking1 Abstract: We construct a meta–ranking of 277 economics journals based on 22 different rankings. The ranking incorporates bibliometric measures from four different databases (Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar and RePEc). We account for the different scaling of all bibliomet- ric measures 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 Eco- nomics, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Economic Litera- ture (JEL), Journal of Finance, and Econometrica. Additionally, leaving out the JEL as a survey journal and the finance journals in our top 10 we confirm the perceived top-5 journals in the economics profession. Keywords: meta–ranking, Economics Journals, Aggregation, Citations, Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, RePEc JEL Code: A12, A14 Lutz Bornmann Alexander Butz Division for Science and Innovation Studies Ifo Institute – Leibniz-Institute Administrative Headquarters for Economic Research of the Max Planck Society at the University of Munich e.V. Hofgartenstr. 8 Poschingerstr. 5 80539 Munich, Germany 81679 Munich, Germany
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[email protected] 1This paper is a completely revised version of Wohlrabe (2016).