經濟學門學術期刊評比更新

THE UPDATED RANKING OF ACADEMIC JOURNALS IN ECONOMICS

研究成果品質的判定，在高等教育與研究機構之學術表現評鑑，及內部人士聘用與升等上，都扮演著重要的角色。就經濟學門而言，期刊論文是最重要的研究成果出版形式，因此期刊品質的判定對經濟學門的發展十分重要。台灣過去幾年，已有不少針對國際期刊與本國期刊評比之論著，以及根據這些結果所計算出之學術單位表現。然而，相關研究發表至今，經濟學研究領域發生不少變動，也有許多新期刊快速興起；僅以SSCI資料庫收錄之經濟期刊而言，其收錄數也在近幾年從二百多種增加到三百多種。有鑑於此，本文爰採用文獻中新進提出的客觀量化排序方法、並參考傑出學者專家的意見，重新對當前的國際及國內經濟學期刊加以評比排序，俾供參考。

In this paper we provide an updated ranking of international as well as domestic economics journals by their quality. A journal ranking list can be useful to researchers as a publication reference and to institutions as the basis for hiring, promotion, and resource allocation decisions. The existing list of journal ranking used by many institutions in Taiwan is based on decade-old data which may be considered outdated. It is therefore important to update the ranking using the most recent data. Both quantitative and qualitative measures are used in updating the ranking. The quantitative measure is based on the impact factor of a journal, and the factor is further adjusted using an axiomatic approach to obtain a robust index. For the qualitative measure, expert meetings were held and the opinions and suggestions therein are adopted to help shape the final ranking of the journals.