What makes a great journal great in economics? The singer not the song

Journal of Economic Surveys

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 326-361

  Chang, Chia Lin ^a   Mcaleer, Michael ^b,c   Oxley, Les ^d  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Article influence; C3PO; Eigenfactor; H index; IFI; Immediacy; Impact factors; PI BETA; Research assessment measures; STAR; Zinfluence

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; ECONOMICS; EIGENVALUE; INDEX METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RANKING; THRESHOLD;

EID: 79952293870     PISSN: 09500804     EISSN: 14676419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6419.2010.00648.x     Document Type: Article

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