Journal of Economic Literature

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Journal of Economic Literature (JEL)

Area of ​​Expertise Economics
language English
First edition 1963
Frequency of publication quarterly
Editor-in-chief Steven N. Durlauf
editor American Economic Association
Web link aeaweb.org/jel
Article archive jstor.org (1963–1968), jstor.org (1969–2012), aeaweb.org/jel (from 1994)
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The Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) is a scientific journal from the field of economics . It is published quarterly by the American Economic Association (AEA). JEL was founded in 1963 as the Journal of Economic Abstracts and renamed in 1969.

Content

The magazine's stated aim is to help economists keep pace with the enormous flow of new literature. Accordingly, the Journal of Economic Literature primarily contains reviews and book reviews as well as an annotated bibliography of newly published books, classified using a specially developed system, the JEL classification .

An index of dissertations from North American universities is published annually in the December issue .

editorial staff

The current editor-in-chief is Steven N. Durlauf (as of 2015). He is supported by Lawrence Blume as associate editor, Dawn Wallhausen as chief of duty , and three editorial assistants.

review

A study by the French economists Pierre-Phillippe Combes and Laurent Linnemer ranks the journal in the third best category A, ranking 54th out of 600 economic journals.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Journal of Economic Literature. aeaweb.org (American Economic Association), accessed October 21, 2015 .
  2. ^ Journal of Economic Literature. jstor.org, accessed October 21, 2015 .
  3. Janet Currie : Journal of Economic Literature: Editorial Policy. aeaweb.org (American Economic Association), 2011, accessed October 21, 2015 .
  4. ^ Journal of Economic Literature: Submissions. (No longer available online.) Aeaweb.org (American Economic Association), archived from the original September 5, 2015 ; accessed on October 21, 2015 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aeaweb.org
  5. Combes, Pierre-Philippe and Laurent Linnemer, Inferring Missing Citations: A Quantitative Multi-Criteria Ranking of all Journals in Economics . In: GREQAM Document de Travail . No. 2010-28 , 2010, pp. 26–30 (English, halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr [PDF]).