In support of faculty pursuing scholarly publishing, the Busse Library staff has assembled these resources for consultation and general information. Field-specific pages include a roster of top journals associated with the discipline, professional associations, applicable citation index details, and articles on how to publish in that arena.
For scholars in economics, the following categories of information are offered:
Top 10-20 Journals, Based on Recent ISI Impact Factors -- Previous ISI Rankings for Top Journals in Economics (SSCI) -- Alternative Citation Impact Systems: Economics Rankings -- Professional Associations: Economics -- Open Access Journals and Open Access Collections: Economics
Top 10 Journals, Based on Recent ISI Impact Factors
- Quarterly Journal of Economics: MIT Press -- (Rank #1, 2009 ISI)
- Journal of Economic Literature (JEL): American Economic Association (AEA) -- (Rank #2, 2009 ISI)
- Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP): American Economic Association (AEA) -- (Rank #3, 2009 ISI).
- Econometrica: The Econometric Society -- (Rank #4, 2009 ISI)
- Journal of Political Economy (JPE): University of Chicago Press -- (Rank #5, 2009 ISI)
- Journal of Financial Economics (JFE): University of Rochester (NY) -- (Rank #6, 2009 ISI)
- Economic Geography: Clark University -- (Rank #7, 2009 ISI)
- Journal of Economic Geography: Oxford University Press -- (Rank #8, 2009 ISI)
- Journal of Accounting and Economics: Elsevier -- (Rank #9, 2009 ISI)
- The Review of Economic Studies: Stockholm University (Sweden) -- (Rank #10, 2009 ISI)
Previous ISI Rankings for Top Journals in Economics (SSCI)
Previous ISI Rankings: General Guides
- Journals Ranked by Impact: From ISI's SCI-BYTES: What's New in Research -- directory to master and subject lists compiled by the University of Delaware Library
Previous ISI Rankings: Economics Journals
- 2009 ISI Impact Factors: Economics Journals -- from Sci-Bytes: ISI
- Economics: Journals Ranked by Impact, 2006: Science Watch: Thomson Reuters
- Economics, Journals Ranked by Impact, 2004: In-CITES, June 2006
- Economics, Journals Ranked by Impact: 2001 Impact Factors and 1981-2001 Data: In-CITES -- June 2003 publication
Alternative Citation Impact Systems: Economics Rankings
- Citations in Economics: CitEc Project -- bibliometric analysis for documents within the RePEc digital library, composed of 71 counties disseminating economics research
- Economics, Econometrics, and Finance: SCImago Journal and Country Rank -- view SJR data (SCOPUS) for various years
- Eigenfactor.org: Economics, 2008 Rankings -- select year to view additional rankings
- IDEAS/RePEc h-index for Journals -- economics journal rankings, as determined by the CitEC project
- Journal Quality List. Compiled and edited by Anne-Wil Harzig. (37th ed., 27 May 2010). -- features 20 differemt rankings of 919 journals in economics, finance, accounting, management, and marketing
- JournalRanking.com: Economics -- web's only interactive journal ranking service, powered by RedJasper software
- View SNIP and SJR Values: SCOPUS -- download entire database (Sept. 2010) as spreadsheet or conduct a search for title or subject of interest
Professional Associations: Economics
- American Economic Association (AEA)
- Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA)
- International Economic Association (IEA)
- Midwest Economics Association (MEA)
- National Economic Association (NEA) -- promotes lives of minority scholars
- Southern Economic Association (SEA)
- Western Economic Association International (WEAI)
Open Access Journals and Open Access Collections: Economics
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Economics
- Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal
- EconPapers: Economics at Your Fingertips -- access contents of RePEc project