CONSTRUCTING JOURNAL RANKINGS AND THE RELIABILITY OF PRESTIGIOUS SCHOLARLY JOURNALS

ABSTRACT. As Engemann and Wall explain, nearly every ranking of economics journals uses citations to measure and compare journals’ research impact. Kalaitzidakis et al. claim that potentially rankings that use a list of research journals with weights from a different period may produce biased and unreliable rankings for the current period. Kodrzycki and Yu develop a flexible, citations-adjusted and reference-intensity-adjusted ranking technique that allows a specified set of journals to be evaluated using a wide range of alternative criteria. (pp. 111–115)