They call me J.C. (i.e., JEEM's impact factor)

From the inbox:

Dear J.C. Whitehead,

The latest impact factors* for Elsevier's Economics and Finance journals have just been released and highlights include...

That is a big increase and moves JEEM up to #16 in the ISI rankings of economics journals. It is #21 in the 5-year impact factor rankings:

The five year impact factor is similar in nature to the JCR Impact Factor, but instead of counting citations in 2009 to the previous two years and dividing by source items in these years, citations are counted in 2009 to the previous five years and again divided by the source items published in the previous five years.

With economics publication lags, I'd say the 5-year Impact Factor is a better measure of journal quality than the 2-year.

Here are links for three readily available (I hope these links will stick) and reliable journal rankings:

• Thomson Reuters JCR
• RePEc
• SCImago (based on Scopus data)