Economics: Resources for Faculty
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Use the Journal Citation Report to find impact factors for journals. If your journal is not listed in the Journal Citation Report, there is no other source for impact factors - here are alt-metrics you may consider instead.
Cabell's will give you contact information and acceptance rates for the major business journals.
Databases
- Journal Citation Reports This link opens in a new windowUse this to find a journal's Impact Factor. A journal evaluation tool that ranks the relative importance of science & social science journals within their subject categories using citation data. Identifies the most frequently cited, highest impact or largest journals in a given field.
- Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities This link opens in a new windowProvides journal acceptance rates and publishing information for major journals in the following fields: Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management, and Marketing.
- Web of Science (Core Collection) This link opens in a new windowUse this database to see how many times your article has been cited, (also check Google Scholar - often not all citations are captured by Web of Science).
