THE RANKING OF AGRICULTURAL-ECONOMICS JOURNALS

This note reports a ranking for agricultural economics journals, based on citation data for the years 1986 and 1991. The rankings are genera ted using data envelopment techniques, and form parr of a wider evalua tion of economics journals. The results indicate that the American Jou rnal of Agricultural Economics and Journal of Agricultural Economics a nd Land Economics are consistently ranked highly, irrespective of time period or citation measure used. They also indicate that the performa nce of the agricultural economics journals considered is broadly compa rable with other applied economics journals.