From the RESECON listserv:
Dear Colleagues:
Attached please find a table of the informal (and unscientific) survey I conducted of RESECON members asking them to rank professional journals in natural resource and environmental economics.
In the spirit of importance-significance analysis, I asked for journals to be ranked based on both the significance of the journal and the importance of the articles published. For the purposes of the survey, the "significance" of a journal was defined as the professional prestige of the journal. The "importance" of a journal was defined as the practical value to society of articles published. Thus, based on these definitions, a journal could have a high significance level (e.g., professionals consider the journal highly prestigious) but have a low importance level (e.g., professionals consider the articles published to have low practical value), and vice-versa.
Here is the survey question:
Based on the significance and importance of the journal as defined above and where you can weight these two factors however you deem best, please provide your ranking from 1 to 5 (where 1 is the best) of what you consider to be the five (5) top-tier professional journals in the natural resource and environmental economics field:
To summarize the results of the survey, journals receiving the most first place votes included, in descending order: 1) JEEM; 2) JAERE; 3) Ecol Econ; 4) Environ and Res Econ (ERE); and 5) Marine Policy.
I also assigned points for #1 through #5 votes (see table) and calculated total points for each journal. Journals with the most total points included, in descending order: 1) JEEM; 2) JAERE; 3) Environ and Res Econ (ERE); 4) Land Econ; and 5) AJAE.
Thank you very much for supporting the survey and I hope you find the results interesting and useful.
Best, John Bergstrom.
Here is the list that I sent to John B. (my explanation is here):
- Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
- Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
- Environmental and Resource Economics
- Land Economics
- Resource and Energy Economics
Here are the top 12 environmental and resource economics journals from RESECON:
Comments:
- My top 4 are RESECON's top 4. I like REE better than AJAE and Ecol Econ.
- I would rank MRE ahead of JEM (I've been associate editor at both).
- Who ranked the Australian JARE #2? I'm more than happy to read a paper from that journal but it is third tier for environmental and resource economics journals, not #2.
- I deleted Marine Policy and Energy Journal, which I don't consider to be economics journals. I would have also deleted JEM except for #2 on my comments list.
- Everything else got very few votes or I dropped it because it is not an economics journal.
John B.'s full list is here: Download RESOURCE ECON Journal Ranking Survey.