A Citations-Based Appraisal of New Journals in Economics Education

The appearance of new journals in the economics education research environment seemed, at least by the mid-1990s, to be an inevitable event.This sense was intensified by the dramatic rise in influence of the JEE between the time of the Liebowitz and Palmer (1984) journal ranking study and the update to that study by Laband and Piette (1994).The latter of these two showed that, between 1980 and 1990, the JEE had risen from the 50th most influential economics journal to the 27th most influential (Laband and Piette, 1994: 663). In its 1994 Annual Report, the JEE noted:2 The JEE is … proving itself to be a major source of information within the knowledge base of economics itself. For example, David Laband and Michael Piette, in a Journal of Economic Literature (June 1994) article, show the JEE ranked 27th out of 130 economics journals in terms of impact adjusted citations in 1990 to 1985–1989 articles.The 1980 impact adjusted citations to 1975–1979 articles showed the JEE ranked 50th out of the 108 journals considered.That is, in ten years the JEE moved from little bette