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ASSESSING THE RELATIVE IMPACTS OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP: AN APPLICATION OF THE HARZING DATABASE
Author(s) -
Mixon, Jr Franklin G.,
Upadhyaya Kamal P.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
bulletin of economic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.227
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8586
pISSN - 0307-3378
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8586.2009.00331.x
Subject(s) - scholarship , economics education , education economics , higher education , order (exchange) , ranking (information retrieval) , economic impact analysis , political science , sociology , economics , comparative education , economic growth , finance , computer science , machine learning , microeconomics
Despite the rising prominence of economic education scholarship, little work has been done to document how economic education scholarship is faring in the academic world. Unlike prior research in this genre, this study assesses the relative impacts of economic education scholarship by examining published research in (strictly) economic education journals. In order to do so, we use the Harzing database of citations to articles published in (strictly) economic education journals from 1990 to the present. Supporting some of the measures found in prior research, we find that the Journal of Economic Education ( JEE ) is unambiguously the dominant source of influential scholarship in the field of economic education. Interestingly, the JEE 's closest competitors among active economic education journals are the International Review of Economics Education and Computers in Higher Education Economics Research , both of which are published under the auspices of the Economics Network, which is located in the UK. Following these two journals in our ranking is the Journal of Economics and Finance Education , a relatively new journal launch.