Journal of Economic Literature

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Economic Literature is 35. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Debunking Immigration Myths: A Review Essay of Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success284
Schooled and Sorted: How Educational Categories Create Inequality260
Book Reviews254
Book Reviews194
Book Reviews152
Book Reviews122
Data Engineering for Cognitive Economics116
Bessy, Christian. Expropriation by Law: Intellectual Property, Value and Labor89
JEL Classification System88
Cash Is Alive: How Economists Explain Holding and Use of Cash88
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2021, Volume LIX, Number 386
Book Reviews78
How Unique is VC’s American History?73
Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries71
Agri-food Value Chain Revolutions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries66
Book Reviews65
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Twelfth Annual List62
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Nineteenth Annual List60
Should They Compete or Should They Cooperate? The View of Agency Theory59
A Nation of Laws, and Race Laws57
From Micro to Macro Development56
Book Reviews55
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2022, Volume LX, Number 351
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History47
JEL Classification System45
Book Review: The Great Reversal by Thomas Philippon44
Why Is Productivity Slowing Down?42
Journal of Economic Literature, June 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 242
Position and Possessions: Stratification Economics and Intergroup Inequality42
JEL Classification System41
Belief-Dependent Motivations and Psychological Game Theory41
The Market Power of Technology: Understanding the Second Gilded Age39
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism37
Information Cascades and Social Learning36
The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Randomized Controlled Trials with Structural Modeling36
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