A Journal Ranking Based on Central Bank Citations

Raphael Auer, Giulio Cornelli and Christian Zimmermann

Review, 2025, vol. 107, issue 9, 14 pages

Abstract: We present a ranking of journals geared toward 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 specializing in macro, monetary, and international economics. Also, the major general interest economic journals are represented reasonably well in this ranking. In contrast, the major finance journals fare somewhat less favorably, with the notable exception of those focused on financial intermediation.

Keywords: impact factors; citations; scholarly communication; economic research; RePEc; policy relevance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 E50 E58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.20955/r.2025.09

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