Rank Journal Factor/Adjusted citations/Items/All citations
1 The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press
30.472 60974 2001 61544
2 Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association
28.274 20640 730 20677
3 Econometrica, Econometric Society
25.827 79416 3075 80464
4 Journal of Economic Growth, Springer
25.302 4959 196 5031
5 Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution
19.11 9440 494 9462
6 Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier
17.132 34315 2003 35249
7 Review of Economic Studies, Blackwell Publishing
17.013 32732 1924 33089
8 Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association
16.645 20473 1230 20700
9 Economic Policy, CEPR, CES, MSH
16.518 2907 176 2927
10 Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier
16.119 26096 1619 26737
11 Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press
15.698 83243 5303 83924
Advances in Macroeconomics, Berkeley Electronic Press
14.75 413 28 416
12 Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press
14.345 11504 802 11688
13 American Economic Review, American Economic Association
14.202 109009 7676 111778
14 RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation
14.151 13287 939 13453
15 Quarterly Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
13.284 3321 250 3444
16 Proceedings, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
11.401 5860 514 5982
17 Review of Financial Studies, Oxford University Press for Society for Financial Studies
11.146 9552 857 9677
18 World Bank Economic Review, Oxford University Press
11.003 4478 407 4503
19 Bell Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation
10.919 6595 604 6599
20 Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier
10.37 30145 2907 30880