Tier A Journals and Publishers
Journal
American Economic Review
American Journal of Political Science
American Journal of Sociology
American Political Science Review
American Sociological Review
Annals of Applied Probability
Annals of Statistics
Econometrica
Journal of Finance
Journal of Financial Economics
Journal of Political Economy
Nature
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Review of Economic Studies
Science
Discipline
Eco
Pol
Soc
Pol
Soc
Sta
Sta
Eco
Fin
Fin
Eco
Misc
Eco
Eco
Misc
Publisher
American Mathematical Society
Cambridge UP
Chicago UP
Cornell UP
Harvard UP
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Johns Hopkins UP
MIT Press
Oxford UP
Princeton UP
SIAM
Yale UP
Tier B Journals and Publishers
Journal
Annals of Applied Statistics
Annals of Probability
Biometrics
Biometrika
British Journal of Political Science
British Journal of Sociology
Communications in Partial Differential Equations
Comparative Political Studies
Comparative Politics
Demography
Econometric Theory
Economic Journal
Economy and Society
European Economic Review
European Journal of Political Research
Finance and Stochastics
Games and Economic Behaviour
Industrial and Corporate Change
International Economic Review
International Organization
Journal of Common Market Studies
Journal of Comparative Economics
Journal of Development Economics
Journal of Econometrics
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Journal of Economic Growth
Journal of Economic History
Journal of Economic Theory
Journal of Environmental Economics and Mgmt.
Journal of European Social Policy
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Journal of Functional Analysis
Journal of Health Economics
Journal of Human Resources
Journal of Industrial Economics
Discipline - Field
Sta - Applied
Sta - Probability
Sta - Applied
Sta - Math Stat
Pol - General
Sociology
Appl. Math.
Pol - Comp. politics
Pol - Comp. politics
Sta - Demography
Eco - Methods (JEL: C)
Eco - General
Sociology
Eco - General
Pol - General
Fin - Math. Finance
Eco - Microeconomics (JEL: D)
Eco - Heterodox (JEL: B)
Eco - General
Pol - Int. Relations
Pol - European Studies
Eco - Econ. Systems (JEL P)
Eco - Development (JEL: R)
Eco - Methods (JEL: C)
Eco - Heterodox (JEL: B)
Eco - Development (JEL: R)
Eco - Econ. History (JEL: N)
Eco - Microeconomics (JEL: D)
Eco - Agr. Res. Econ. (JEL :Q)
Pol - Social Policy & Issues
Fin - General
Appl. Math.
Eco - Health & Education (JEL: I)
Eco - Health & Education (JEL: I)
Eco - Ind. Org. (JEL: L)
Publisher
Academic Press
Addison Wesley
Basil Blackwell
Birkhauser
Elsevier-North Holland
McGraw-Hill
Norton
Palgrave Macmillan
Polity
Prentice Hall
Routledge
Sage
Springer-Verlag
Wiley
Journal of International Economics
Journal of Labor Economics
Journal of Law & Economics
Journal of Law, Economics & Organization
Journal of Marriage and the Family
Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
Journal of Monetary Economics
Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking
Journal of Population Economics
Journal of Public Economics
Journal of Social Issues
Journal of Statistical Mechanics
Journal of the American Statistical Association
Journal of the European Economic Association
Journal of the Royal Statistical Scoiety Series B
Journal of Theoretical Politics
Journal of Urban Economics
Management Science
Mathematical Finance
Mathematics of Operations Research
Physical Review Letters
Political Analysis
Population and Development Review
Population Studies
Probability Theory and Related Fields
Proceedings of the NAS
Public Choice
Rand Journal of Economics
Regional Science and Urban Economics
Research Policy
Review of Economic Dynamics
Review of Economics and Statistics
Review of Financial Studies
Scandinavian Journal of Statistics
Social Networks
West European Politics
World Politics
Eco - International (JEL: F)
Eco - Labor Econ. (JEL: J)
Eco - Law & Econ. (JEL: K)
Eco - Law & Econ. (JEL: K)
Sociology & Sta - Demography
Appl. Math
Eco - Macroeconomics (JEL: E)
Fin - General
Eco - Labor Econ. (JEL: J)
Eco - Public Econ. (JEL: H)
Pol - Social Policy & Issues
Sta - Applied
Sta - Stat Methodol
Eco - General
Sta - Stat Methodol
Pol - Pol. Methodology
Eco - Urban Reg. Econ. (JEL: R)
Eco - Business (JEL: M)
Fin - Math. Finance
Appl. Math.
Misc - General
Pol - Pol. Methodology
Sociology & Sta - Demography
Sta - Demography
Sta - Probability
Misc - General
Eco - Public Econ. (JEL: H)
Eco - Ind. Org. (JEL: L)
Eco - Urban Reg. Econ. (JEL: R)
Eco - Business (JEL: M)
Eco - Macroeconomics (JEL: E)
Eco - General
Fin - General
Sta - Math Stat
Sociology
Pol - European Studies
Pol - Int. Relations
Tier C Journals and Publishers
This Tier includes automatically any journal that satisfies the following criteria: 1) it received an IF in the last
available year (i.e., 2008), 2) it belongs to the top 3 quartiles (rounding above) of the ranking by eigenfactor in
its subject category in at least one of the previous two years for which data is available (currently, 2007 and
2008). In addition to such journals, this list includes:
Journal
American Economic Journals***
Annals of Finance***
Berkeley Electronic Journals (Advances+Contributions)***
Comparative European Politics*
Economics of Innovation and New Technology***
European Political Science**
Global Economy Journal***
IMS sponsored journals**
International Statistical Review (Official Journal of ISI)**
Journal of Economic Inequality***
Journal of European Integration*
Journal of Institutional Economics***
Journal of Public Policy*
Kinetic and Related Models***
Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability***
Perspectives on Politics**
Politics**
Quantitative Economics***
Review of Economics of the Household***
Review of Finance***
Sankhya***
Socio-Economic Review*
South-European Politics and Society*
Theoretical Economics***
Theory of Probability and Its Applications***
Discipline
Eco
Fin
Eco
Pol
Eco
Pol
Eco
Sta
Sta
Eco
Pol
Eco
Pol
Appl. Math.
Sta
Pol
Pol
Eco
Dem, Eco
Fin
Sta
Pol
Pol
Eco
Sta
Publisher
Amsterdam UP
Ashgate
Brill Academic Publishers
Bruylant
Chapman and Hall
Edward Elgar
Frank Cass
Hart Publishing
il Mulino
Kluwer
Laterza
Manchester UP
Peter Lang
Policy Press
Praeger
Rowman and Littlefield
Verso
* European diffusion journal which does not satisfy the mentioned criteria but is well-known internationally and
features peer-review and an international editorial board.
** Professional and/or Association journal
*** Journal currently without IF, but peer-reviewed and with an international and prestigious editorial board.