Fresh from the newly released Journal Citations Report, here is the new top 5 of journals in the “agricultural economics and policy” category:
- Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 11.353
- Annual Review of Resource Economics 6.617
- Food Policy 6.080
- Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 4.890
- European Review of Agricultural Economics 4.448
The number to the right of each journal name is the journal’s impact factor, which has been calculated on the basis of calendar year 2021 citation numbers.
Congratulations to the editors of the CJAE, whose decision to publish a special issue on COVID-19 before anyone else did paid off handsomely (and also demonstrates the power of Stackelberg first movers). Of note is the fact that the CJAE’s new impact factor places them in… the top five of all economics journals! I wish them luck in handling the incoming Old Testament-grade flood of submissions that one would expect this to bring.
Gentle ribbing of my Canadian colleagues aside, this has not been a good year for the AJAE, which I have been co-editing since January 2020, as our impact factor went from 4 to 3.757; our ranking also tumbled to tenth in the Agricultural Economics and Policy category. A small silver lining is the fact that by impact factor, the AJAE is slightly behind the Journal of Health Economics and slightly ahead of the Economic Journal.