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Journals Ranked by Impact: Economics

Rank

2003
Impact Factor

Impact
1999-2003
Impact 
1981-2003
1
2
Quart. J. Economics
(4.76)
Quart. J. Economics
(8.85)
Econometrica
(44.86)
3
J. Accounting & Econ.
(3.84)
J. Financial Economics
(5.60)
J. Political Economy
(40.03)
4
NBER Macroeconomics Ann.
(3.17)
J. Economic Perspectives
(5.13)
J. Financial Economics
(34.68)
5
J. Financial Economics
(2.72)
J. Political Economy
(4.92)
Quart. J. Economics
(30.39)
6
J. Economic Perspectives
(2.68)
IMF Staff Papers
(4.87)
American Economic Review
(21.35)
7
Economic Policy
(2.25)
Econometrica
(4.43)
Rev. Economic Studies
(20.91)
8
Econometrica
(2.22)
J. Accounting & Econ.
(4.24)
J. Monetary Economics
(20.39)
9
J. Political Economy
(2.20)
American Economic Review
(4.21)
J. Economic Perspectives
(19.75)
10
American Economic Review
(1.94)
Economic Geography
(3.90)
Rand J. Economics
(18.80)

The above table compares the citation impact of journals in a given field as measured over three different time spans. The left-hand column ranks journals based on their 2003 "impact factor," as enumerated in the current edition of the ISI Journal Citation Reports®. The 2003 impact factor is calculated by taking the number of all current citations to source items published in a journal over the previous two years and dividing by the number of articles published in the journal during the same period—in other words, a ratio between citations and recent citable items published. The rankings in the next two columns show impact over longer time spans, based on figures from the ISI Journal Performance Indicators. In these columns, total citations to a journal's published papers are divided by the total number of papers that the journal published, producing a citations-per-paper impact score over a five-year period (middle column) and a 23-year period (right-hand column).