==== Economic Journal Influence Using Google Scholar ====

Impact Factor is the most well-known meassure of influence of scientific journals. A nice improvement is Eigenfactor. In Eigenfactor.org you can obtain a nice classification of economic journal influence. [[http://eigenfactor.org/results.php?fulljournalname1=&rosvcat=ECONOMICS&year=2008&resultsperpage=100&issnnumber=&ordering=perarticle&grping=%25&nam=names&Submit=Search|Just click here]].

Another nice //but not consistent// way of seeing impact of journals is simply asking Google Scholar for articles in that journal. Observing the amount of citations of top-articles list in the journal, we can have an intuitive idea of differences in the impact of articles published by different journals:

- [[http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=&as_publication=journal+of+political+economy&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0|Journal of Political Economy]]

- [[http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=&as_publication=quarterly+journal+of+economics&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0|Quarterly Journal of Economics]]

- [[http://scholar.google.es/scholar?hl=en&q=&as_publication=american+economic+review&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0|American Economic Review]]

- [[http://scholar.google.es/scholar?hl=en&q=&as_publication=review+economic+studies&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0|Review of Economic Studies]]

- [[http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=&as_publication=econometrica&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=1|Econometrica]]

- [[http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=&as_publication=journal+of+economic+literature&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0|Journal of Economic Literature]]