A journal ranking based on central bank citations

Raphael Auer, Giulio Cornelli and Christian Zimmermann

No 1139, BIS Working Papers from Bank for International Settlements

Abstract: We present a ranking of journals geared towards measuring the policy relevance of research. We compute simple impact factors that count only citations made in central bank publications, such as their working paper series. Our baseline ranking focuses on the time period 2014–23 and examines all items published in the Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) database. This ranking confirms the high policy relevance of journals specialising in macro, monetary and international economics. Also, the major general interest journals in the field of economics feature reasonably well in this ranking. In contrast, the major finance journals fare somewhat less favourably, with the notable exception of those focused on financial intermediation. Among the journals published by academic institutions, the ranking is topped by the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Monetary Economics, while the International Journal of Central Banking and the BIS Quarterly Review top the list of journals issued by policy institutions.

Keywords: central banks; citations; academic journals; ranking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 E50 E58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-10
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