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Ranking economic history journals: a citation-based impact-adjusted analysis

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  • Gianfranco Di Vaio

    (Faculty of Economics, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali-LUISS ‘Guido Carli’, Viale Romania 32, 00197 Rome, Italy. Department of Economics, Finance and Statistics, University of Perugia, Via A. Pascoli 20, 06123 Perugia, Italy.)

  • Jacob Louis Weisdorf

    (Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, 6 Studiestræde, 1455 Copenhagen, Denmark.)

Abstract

This study ranks—for the first time—12 international academic journals that have economic history as their main topic. The ranking is based on data collected for the year 2007. Journals are ranked using standard citation analysis where we adjust for age, size and self-citation of journals. We also compare the leading economic history journals with the leading journals in economics in order to measure the influence on economics of economic history, and vice versa. With a few exceptions, our results confirm the general idea about what economic history journals are the most influential for economic history, and that, although economic history is quite independent from economics as a whole, knowledge exchange between the two fields is indeed going on.

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  • Gianfranco Di Vaio & Jacob Louis Weisdorf, 2010. "Ranking economic history journals: a citation-based impact-adjusted analysis," Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History, Association Française de Cliométrie (AFC), vol. 4(1), pages 1-17, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:afc:cliome:v:4:y:2010:i:1:p:1-17
    DOI: 10.1007/s11698-009-0039-y
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    Keywords

    Economic history; Journal ranking; Citation analysis; Scientometrics; Impact factor;
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    JEL classification:

    • A10 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - General
    • A11 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Role of Economics; Role of Economists
    • A14 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Sociology of Economics

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