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"Journal of Cleaner Production" is not "highly ranked" in economics. Economists are pretty hierarchical about their journals and know which are the top 5, which

by dash2 3y ago

"Journal of Cleaner Production" is not "highly ranked" in economics. Economists are pretty hierarchical about their journals and know which are the top 5, which are top field journals etc. That one is a non-entity, I have literally never heard of it.

nsajko 3y ago
"Highly ranked" probably refers to a formal metric like the impact factor. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_ranking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_ranking
- kratom_sandwich 3y ago
  It appears not to be an economics journal at all, at least it is not featured in RePEc's rankings: https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.journals.simple.html https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.journals.simple.html
boppo1 3y ago
What are the top 5?
- Shrezzing 3y ago
  Depends a bit on the branch/focus of economics you're looking at, and which nation/region you want to read about, but a broadly uncontroversial list would be: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press (colloquial known as "the QUGE") Econometrica, Econometric Society Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association Journal of Economic Growth, Springer Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier Maybe swap in the Journal of Political Economy if you're looking for more political leaning research. Swap in the American Economic Review if you're interested in more American-centric research.
  - othello 3y ago
    That's incorrect, the Top 5 in econ are (in no particular order): - Econometrica - American Economic Review - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Journal of Political Economy - Review of Economic Studies
    - huitzitziltzin 3y ago
      This is the correct answer and would get the agreement of probably better than 95% of the profession. The suggestion above that JEL is a top five is bizarre. The CS equivalent is saying that the book “learn python in 21 days” is a top outlet for CS research. The authors of this paper should be deeply embarrassed about the way they handled that data, but I’m slightly relieved to see that this garbage was published in a tenth-rate journal no one has ever heard of. (Though to be clear there are definitely problems with what gets through in top journals too!)
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    - bachmeier 3y ago
      Just to add some context, the term "Top 5" is not subjective, it's a reference to those five journals. Tenure and promotion decisions in top departments based their decisions on publications in those journals.[1] [1] https://newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/research/the-tyranny-of-the-top-five/ https://newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/research/the-tyranny-of-...
  - dash2 3y ago
    QJE and Econometrica yes. JEL is excellent but not one of the "top 5": it's literature reviews. JFE is big in finance but not top 5. JEG, not even close - it's a field journal.

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nsajko 3y ago

"Highly ranked" probably refers to a formal metric like the impact factor. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_ranking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_ranking

kratom_sandwich 3y ago
It appears not to be an economics journal at all, at least it is not featured in RePEc's rankings: https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.journals.simple.html https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.journals.simple.html

boppo1 3y ago

What are the top 5?

Shrezzing 3y ago
Depends a bit on the branch/focus of economics you're looking at, and which nation/region you want to read about, but a broadly uncontroversial list would be: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press (colloquial known as "the QUGE") Econometrica, Econometric Society Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association Journal of Economic Growth, Springer Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier Maybe swap in the Journal of Political Economy if you're looking for more political leaning research. Swap in the American Economic Review if you're interested in more American-centric research.
- othello 3y ago
  That's incorrect, the Top 5 in econ are (in no particular order): - Econometrica - American Economic Review - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Journal of Political Economy - Review of Economic Studies
  - huitzitziltzin 3y ago
    This is the correct answer and would get the agreement of probably better than 95% of the profession. The suggestion above that JEL is a top five is bizarre. The CS equivalent is saying that the book “learn python in 21 days” is a top outlet for CS research. The authors of this paper should be deeply embarrassed about the way they handled that data, but I’m slightly relieved to see that this garbage was published in a tenth-rate journal no one has ever heard of. (Though to be clear there are definitely problems with what gets through in top journals too!)
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  - bachmeier 3y ago
    Just to add some context, the term "Top 5" is not subjective, it's a reference to those five journals. Tenure and promotion decisions in top departments based their decisions on publications in those journals.[1] [1] https://newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/research/the-tyranny-of-the-top-five/ https://newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/research/the-tyranny-of-...
- dash2 3y ago
  QJE and Econometrica yes. JEL is excellent but not one of the "top 5": it's literature reviews. JFE is big in finance but not top 5. JEG, not even close - it's a field journal.