A journal ranking based on central bank citations

Raphael Auer, Giulio Cornelli and Christian Zimmermann

No 2023-027, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

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. Our baseline ranking focuses on the period 2014–2023 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 economic journals 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.

Keywords: central banks; citations; academic journals; ranking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 E50 E58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2023-10, Revised 2024-12-17
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DOI: 10.20955/wp.2023.027

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