How robust are journal rankings based on the impact factor? Evidence from the economic sciences

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Highlights：

• The distribution of citations to articles in a journal is skewed.

• We analyze the robustness of journal rankings based on the impact factor with respect to this skewness.

• Journal rankings in economics are robust after excluding the top, the top 5 and top 10 cited articles.

摘要

Highlights•The distribution of citations to articles in a journal is skewed.•We analyze the robustness of journal rankings based on the impact factor with respect to this skewness.•Journal rankings in economics are robust after excluding the top, the top 5 and top 10 cited articles.

论文关键词：Impact factor,Ranking,Skewness,Economics journals

论文评审过程：Received 6 August 2014, Revised 29 August 2014, Accepted 1 September 2014, Available online 4 October 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2014.09.001