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Author-Name: Chia-Lin Chang
Author-Email: changchialin@nchu.edu.tw
Author-Person: pch286 
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Applied Economics, Department of Finance, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Author-Name: Michael McAleer
Author-Person: pmc90 
Author-Workplace-Name: Econometric Institute, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Tinbergen Institute,
	The Netherlands, Department of Quantitative Economics, Complutense University of Madrid, and Institute of
	Economic Research, Kyoto University. 
Title: Ranking Leading Econometrics Journals Using Citations Data from ISI and RePEc
Abstract: The paper focuses on the robustness of rankings of academic journal quality and research impact of 10 
	leading econometrics journals taken from the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science (ISI) Category of Economics, 
	using citations data from ISI and the highly accessible Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) database that 
	is widely used in economics, finance and related disciplines. The journals are ranked using quantifiable 
	static and dynamic Research Assessment Measures (RAMs), with 15 RAMs from ISI and 5 RAMs from RePEc. The 
	similarities and differences in various RAMs, which are based on alternative weighted and unweighted 
	transformations of citations, are highlighted to show which RAMs are able to provide informational value 
	relative to others. The RAMs include the impact factor, mean citations and non-citations, journal policy, 
	number of high quality papers, and journal influence and article influence. The paper highlight robust 
	rankings based on the harmonic mean of the ranks of 20 RAMs, which in some cases are closely related. It 
	is shown that emphasizing the most widely-used RAM, the 2-year impact factor of a journal, can lead to a 
	distorted evaluation of journal quality, impact and influence relative to the harmonic mean of the ranks.

Classification-JEL:  C18, C81, Y10.
Keywords: Research assessment measures, Citations, Impact, Influence, Harmonic mean, 
	Robust journal rankings, Econometrics. 

Note: The authors are most grateful for very helpful discussions and correspondence with 
	Esfandiar Maasoumi and Christian Zimmermann. For financial support, the first author 
	wishes to thank the National Science Council, Taiwan, and the second author wishes to 
	acknowledge the Australian Research Council and the National Science Council, Taiwan

Length: 24 pages 
Creation-Date: 2013-10  
Number: 2013-34 
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