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- Publisher
- Wiley
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1972 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
- ISSN
- 0095-2583
- eISSN
- 1465-7295
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1465-7295.1972.tb01596.x
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
I. The proposed formal system for estimating the quality of economics journals builds upon the assumption that the quality of a journal is closely related to the overall professional accomplishments of its contributors and that such accomplishments, in turn, are closely related to the quality of the contributors' institutional affiliations. Boldly stated, outstanding journals have a relatively large proportion of contributors from the faculties of outstanding universities. A measure of the quality of economics departments is available from the latest American Council on Education (ACE) evaluation of Ph.D.granting departments. These evaluations are based on the replies to ques*The author gratefully acknowledges the support of a grant from the University of Houston. 1. The only serious attempt to rate the quality of economic journals objectively is that of Coats [ 5 ] . Using innovativeness and the frequency with which articles are cited in other publications, Coats attempted to measure the quality of ten leading economic journals. 2. Berg [ 11 reported the number of economic journals had more than doubled since 1959 and that more than 250 domestic and foreign journals are currently monitored by the Journal ofEconomic Literature. MOORE: QUALITY OF JOURNALS tionnaires mailed to a large
Journal
Economic Inquiry – Wiley
Published: Jun 1, 1972