New Approaches to Ranking Economics Journals

B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Kodrzycki, Yolanda K ^a   Yu, Pingkang ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF BOSTON   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

citations; economics journals; finance journals; interdisciplinary communications; policy journals; rankings; research productivity; social sciences journals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860860069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19351682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/1538-0645.1520     Document Type: Article

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