| By: |
Johannes König (Department of Economics, Economic Policy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Kassel, Germany);
David I. Stern (Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, 132 Lennox Crossing, Acton, ACT 2601, Australia);
Richard S.J. Tol (Department of Economics, University of Sussex, BN1 9SL Falmer, United Kingdom) |
| Abstract: |
We compute confidence intervals for recursive impact factors, that take into
account that some citations are more prestigious than others, as well as for
the associated ranks of journals, applying the methods to the population of
economics journals. The Quarterly Journal of Economics is clearly the journal
with greatest impact, the confidence interval for its rank only includes one.
Based on the simple bootstrap, the remainder of the "Top-5" journals are in
the top 6 together with the Journal of Finance, while the Xie et al. (2009),
and Mogstad et al. (2022) methods generally broaden estimated confidence
intervals, particularly for mid-ranking journals. All methods agree that most
apparent differences in journal quality are, in fact, mostly insignicant. |
| Keywords: |
Bibliometrics, citation analysis, publishing, bootstrapping |
| JEL: |
A14 C15 C46 |
| URL: |
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:sus:susewp:0122&r= |