Citation Dot Info

This website will eventually provide resources for academic citations---who cites who in academic journals and working papers. It will not be a cite targeted for undergraduate students, but for graduate students and faculty.

Data

• RePEc: Economic Citations.
• Google Scholar. A commercial but free service.
• Elsevier, Scopus: a commercial and expensive data service.
• ISI Thomson (Web of Science): a commercial and expensive data service.

References

• Pinski, Gabriel, and Francois Narin (1976). "Citation influence for Journal Aggregates of Scientific Publications: Theory, with Application to the Literature of Physics." Information Processing and Management, 12, 297-312.
• Brin, Sergey, and Lawrence Page (1998). "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine." Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 30, 107-117.

  the motherload

• Yolanda K. Kodrzycki and Pingkang Yu. "New Approaches to Ranking Economics Journals." Federal Reserve Bank of Boston June 2006. Uses Google's Pagerank.

  Notes that Journal Citation Reports (JCR), including 160 journals, omit some top journals. This is used, e.g., in Kalaitzidakis, who ranks 159 journals in the JCR economics section.

• Liewbowitz, S.L., and J.P. Palmer, 1984. "Assessing the Relative Impacts of Economics Journals." Journal of Economic Literature 22-1, March: 77-88.
• Hirsch, Barry, Randall Austin, John Brooks, and J. Bradley Moore. 1984. "Economics Departmental Rankings: Comments." American Economic Review 74(4): 822-826.
• Coupe, Tom. 2003. "Revealed Performances: Worldwide Rankings of Economists and Economics Departments 1969-2000." Journal of the European Economic Association 1(6): 1309-1345.
• Davis, John B. 1998. "Problems in Using the Social Sciences Citation Index to Rank Economics Journals." American Economist 42(2) Fall: 59-64.
• Dusansky, Richard, and Clayton J. Vernon. 1998. "Rankings of U.S. Economics Departments." Journal of Economic Perspectives 12(1) Winter: 157-170.
• Garcia-Castrillo, P., A. Montanes, and F. Sanz-Gracia. 2002. "A Worldwide Assessment of Scientific Production in Economics (1992-1997)." Applied Economics 34(12) August: 1453-1475.
• Laband, David N. and Michael J. Piette, 1994. "The Relative Impacts of Economics Journals: 1970-1990." Journal of Economic Literature 32-2, June: 640-666.
• Kalaitzidakis, Pantelis, Theofanis P. Mamuneas, and Thanasis Stengos. 2003. "Rankings of Academic Journals and Institutions in Economics." Journal of the European Economic Association 1(6): 1346-1366.
• Palacios-Huerta, Ignacio and Oscar Volij. 2004. "The Measurement of Intellectual Influence." Econometrica 72(3): 963-977.

  An axiomatic proof for Google PageRank.

• Leydesdorff, Loet. 2004. "Top-down Decomposition of the Journal Citation Report of the Social Science Citation Index: Graph- and Factor-analytical Approaches." Scientometrics 60(2): 159-180.

  Cross-citations in JCR to define subject areas.

• Pieters, Rik, and Hans Baumgartner. 2002. "Who Talks to Whom? Intra- and Interdisciplinary Communication of Economics Journals." Journal of Economic Literature 40(2): 483-509.

  cross-disciplinary cites, incl 42 econ journals.

• MacRae, Duncan Jr., and Irwin Feller. 1998. "The Structure of and Prospects for Policy Research as Suggested by Journal Citation Analysis." Policy Studies Review 15(1) Spring: 115-135.

  similar to PB.

• Reuter and Smith-Ready (2002).
• Liner, Gaines H. and Minesh Amin. 2004. "Methods of Ranking Economics Journals." Atlantic Economic Journal 32 (2): 140-149.
• Tervio, Marko (2006). Network Analysis of Three Academic Labor Markets..

  studies clusters of citation networks, using pagerank.

• Scott, L., and P. Mitias. 1996. "Trends in Rankings of Economics Departments in the U.S.: An Update." Economic Inquiry 34:378-400.