Ranking Journals Following a Matching Model Approach. An Application to Public Economics Journals

Francesc Pujol

No 12/06, Faculty Working Papers from School of Economics and Business Administration, University of Navarra

Abstract: Journal rankings based on citation indexes are widely used in the economics field for global top journals. We propose an alternative way to rank journals based on the publishing behavior of top ranked authors. We justify this approach by depicting the scientific publishing market as following a matching process. Compared to the citation approach, the methodology that we propose has comparative advantages in terms of time effort to produce national and subdiscipline rankings, and it makes it possible to compare them with global rankings. It also corrects the impact underestimation that the citation approach tends to produce in new and re-founded journals. We propose an empirical application to the case of public economics journals.

JEL-codes: A14 C78 H00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2006-09-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-pbe and nep-sog
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Published, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2008, 10 (1): pp. 55-76.

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.unav.edu/documents/10174/6546776/1160465651_wp1206.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Ranking Journals Following a Matching Model Approach: An Application to Public Economics Journals (2008)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:una:unccee:wp1206

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Faculty Working Papers from School of Economics and Business Administration, University of Navarra
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().