Yong Bao, Melody Lo, and Frank Mixon, "General-Interest versus Specialty
Journals: Using Intellectual Influence of Econometrics Research to Rank
Economics Journals and Articles", Journal of Applied Econometrics,
Vol. 25, No. 2, 2010, pp. 345-353.

The Gauss code used is provided in the file code-web.g, which is zipped in
code-web.zip. Since this code is designed to read three Excel files, these
files are provided in excel-files.zip:

  Econometrics Articles (2000-2005).xls
  Journals.xls
  Journals1.xls

The main data file has also been converted to Open Document format:

  Econometrics Articles (2000-2005).odt

The econometrics articles were first identified by searching the JEL
classification codes of C1-C5 at EconLit with published window 2000-2005.
For each identified article, its citation records over the window 2000-2006
were retrieved from SSCI. Note that EconLit gives econometrics articles that
were published in The Econometrics Journal and Econometric Reviews. However,
because SSCI does not have citation data for these two journal until the
year 2005, we did not include these two journals in our analysis.

For each article record, SSCI gives the total number of citations as well as
the source of citations and associated number of citations. Each article
record also includes Title, Author, Author Affiliation, Source, Publication
Date, and Descriptors. The data file was stored as an Excel file and it
contains exclusively all nonnumerical values. A GAUSS code was written to
deal with string operations. 

A typical article record in the Excel file is like the following:

Record: 4      No. of citations:
	Source of citations and associated No. of citations
Title:	Consistent Estimation with a Large Number of Weak Instruments
	4			ECONOMETRIC THEORY (3)
Author:	Chao, John C.; Swanson, Norman R.
	ECONOMETRICA (1)					
Author Affiliation:	U MD; Rutgers U
Source:	Econometrica, September 2005, v. 73, iss. 5, pp. 1673-92
Publication Date:	Sep-05
Descriptors:	Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: General (C300)

The following journals are listed in Journals.xls:

 1 AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
 2 ECONOMETRICA
 3 JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
 4 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
 5 QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
 6 REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
 7 JOURNAL OF MONETARY ECONOMICS
 8 GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
 9 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES
10 EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
11 ECONOMIC THEORY
12 JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCES
13 JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
14 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE
15 ECONOMICS LETTERS
16 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC DYNAMICS & CONTROL
17 JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
18 JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
19 RAND JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
20 SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
21 JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
22 OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
23 JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
24 JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS
25 ECONOMETRIC THEORY
26 JOURNAL OF BUSINESS & ECONOMIC STATISTICS
27 REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
28 INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
29 ECONOMIC JOURNAL
30 JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECONOMETRICS
31 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION

In Journals1.xls, the European Economic Review is replaced by:

10 JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION