The CiteScore 2022 journal ranking is out. Journal of Population Economics ranks even higher.

Scopus has adjusted its CiteScore measure: “CiteScore 2022 counts the citations received in 2019-2022 to articles, reviews, conference papers, book chapters and data papers published in 2019-2022, and divides this by the number of publications published in 2019-2022.” It has a much broader basis than the IF measure of Clarivate.

The Journal of Population Economics has now (2022) CiteSCore = 9.2 and IF = 6.1.

Based on Clarivate:

SSCI IMPACT FACTOR: 6.1 (2022) from 4.7 (2021) – 1/29 in Demography & 38/380 in Economics
SSCI 5-Year Impact Factor: 5.0 (2022) from 4.2 (2021)
SSCI Journal Citation Indicator (JCI): 2.13 (2022) from 1.76 (2021). JoPE has 113% more citation impact than the average in its category.
Rank by JCI. Demography: 1/49 (2022) Q1 from 2/50 (2021); Economics: 24/581 Q1 from 43/570 (2021)

A selective list of journals in economics based on CiteScore (#docs)

  • 25.1 (158): Quarterly Journal of Economics
  • 12.8 (592): Small Business Economics
  • 9.2 (173): Journal of Population Economics
  • 9.0 (514): China Economic Review
  • 7.0 (460): Journal of Development Economics
  • 6.3 (171): Journal of Labor Economics
  • 6.3 (188): Review of Economics of the Household
  • 6.2 (176): ILR Review
  • 5.9 (178): Journal of Human Resources
  • 5.8 (105): Eurasian Business Review
  • 5.8 (309): International Journal of Manpower
  • 5.5 (111): Eurasian Economic Review
  • 5.4 (138): Feminist Economics
  • 4.7 (49): Journal of Economic Growth
  • 3.9 (366): Economics and Human Biology
  • 3.4 (171): Journal of the Economics of Ageing
  • 2.8 (425): Labour Economics
  • 2.2 (224): Indian Journal of Labor Economics
  • 2.2 (66): Journal of Human Capital
  • 2.2 (112): Population and Economics
  • 1.8 (67): Journal of Demographic Economics

A selective list of journals in demography based on CiteScore (#docs)

  • 9.2 (182): Journal of Population Economics
  • 7.3 (863): Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • 6.8 (168): International Migration Review
  • 6.0 (386): Demography
  • 5.2 (156): European Journal of Population
  • 4.9 (387): Population, Space and Place
  • 4.5 (143): Population and Development Review 
  • 3.9 (117): Population Studies

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