Revealed preference for economics journals: Citations as dollar votes

David Laband () and John Sophocleus

Public Choice, 1985, vol. 46, issue 3, 317-324

Abstract: There are several measures which can be used to evaluate professional regard for economics journals. In this paper, I have focused on citations as a proxy for quality of material published, as revealed preference for the journals. The availability of the Social Sciences Citation Index has permitted construction of a relative rating system for economics journals, based on citations, which was virtually impossible for previous researchers to achieve. While the potential objections to using citations as a proxy have been admitted, the proxy is still a useful one — one that reveals preferences for the top economics journals, much as dollars reveal preferences in product markets. Copyright Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 1985

Date: 1985
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