Ranking Economic History Journals: A Citation-Based Impact-Adjusted Analysis

This study ranks for the \u85rst time 12 international academic journals that have economic history as their main topic. The ranking is based on data collected for the year 2007. Journals are ranked using standard citation analysis where we adjust for age, size and self-citation of journals. We also compare the leading eco-nomic history journals with the leading journals in economics in order to measure the inuence on economics of economic history, and vice versa. With a few excep-tions, our results con\u85rm the general idea about what economic history journals are the most inuential for economic history, and that, although economic history is quite independent from economics as a whole, knowledge exchange between the two elds is indeed going on