Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263958 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. TI 2022-038/III
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
We compute confidence intervals for recursive impact factors, that take into account that some citations are more prestigious than others, as well as for the associated ranks of journals, applying the methods to the population of economics journals. The Quarterly Journal of Economics is clearly the journal with greatest impact, the confidence interval for its rank only includes one. Based on the simple bootstrap, the remainder of the "Top- 5" journals are in the top 6 together with the Journal of Finance, while the Xie et al. (2009), and Mogstad et al. (2022) methods generally broaden estimated confidence intervals, particularly for mid-ranking journals. All methods agree that most apparent differences in journal quality are, in fact, mostly insignificant.
Subjects: 
Bibliometrics
citation analysis
publishing
bootstrapping
JEL: 
C71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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