TABLE 1
DATA SUMMARY, 1989-1999

Journal

All Econometrics

Theory

Conversion
factor

Impact
factor
/a

Number
of authors
Number
of articles
Standardized
pages
Number
authors
Number
of articles
Standardized
pages
American Economic Review 805 583 9,830.18 4 3 30.56 1.33 2.629
Econometrica 316 277 6,818.26 188 187 4,040.14 1 2.072
Economic Journal 514 370 6,198.42 14 11 224.66 1.04 1.364
Econometric Reviews/b 247 226 3,042.80 217 193 2,687.88 NA NA
Econometric Theory 326 328 6,985.46 319 322 6,833.06 0.99 0.425
International Economic Review 261 164 3,331.62 92 57 1,063.62 1.02 0.852
Journal of Applied Econometrics/c 495 330 6,997.04 97 65 1,406.40 1.2 1.003
Journal of the American Statistical Association 421 268 5,143.22 291 187 3,517.64 2.02 2.905
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 739 539 8,771.92 138 85 1,475.04 1.74 1.942
Journal of Monetary Economics 396 288 6,321.04 2 2 10.46 0.95 0.985
Journal of Political Economy 442 296 7,162.74 0 0 0 0.87 2.269
Journals of the Royal Statistical Society 354 220 4,669.92 202 124 2,465.92 1.35 1.983
Journal of Econometrics 954 896 19,705.68 630 608 13,601.00 0.96 1.143
Review of Economics and Statistics 1,335 931 11,574.56 75 56 674.82 1.43 1.28
Review of Economic Studies 160 108 2,932.92 65 43 972.32 1.22 1.899
Total 7,765 5,824 109,485.78 2,334 1,943 39,003.52  

(a) These are the 1998 citation impact factors obtained from the Social Sciences Citation Index Journal of Citation Report. Note that citation impact factors are not available for Econometric Reviews.
(b)
Standardized page counts for Econometric Reviews were computed based on word counts for each article.
(c) This journal was not included in the 1980-1988 study by Hall (1990)