Journal Quality Index (JQI)
For Economics and Business Journals
Since 2014, I have constructed and maintained a quality index of academic journals in business and economics. The goal was simple: combine several metrics used by my institution into a single index that would allow some comparison across journals. The ranking is not a "target list" with a limited number of journals. Instead, the list is meant to be extensive, encompassing a large amount of the potential outlets for economics and business publications.
The methodology assigns a value to each journal from 0 to 10, as well as a corresponding percentile computed within the list. Thus, individuals can use this measure to get a sense of where in the distribution of potential outlets the journal lies. Furthermore, it provides a set of journals with similar scores which allows people across disciplines to understand the relative rankings of journals outside of their area. Finally, use of a single index reduces opportunities to search for the "best metric" for a journal while also accounting for variation across metrics.
The index has been updated every 3 years keeping a similar methodology but using updated metrics in the calculation.
2023 JQI is available
Here is a link to the 2023 JQI list l in the form of a Google sheet. Users can filter and search for journals.
There are approximately 3,200 journals in this edition of the list.
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