How is it viewed?
Journal of Urban Economics
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Top 100 journal at most, urban is a tiny field.
EI>JUEYeah, that's why it has a 5-year impact factor >3 while EI's is around 1...
Urban is still a small field, but a rapidly growing one. Most importantly, the field still addresses INTERESTING and RELEVANT questions.
JUrbanEcon is at the same level as JHealthEcon, though still below JPubEcon or JIntEcon
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JUE is the top in urban and even slightly wider. There are basically two serious journals in urban: JUE and RSUE.
In the field, it is more like this: JUE > RSUE ~ JoEG ~ JRS
One nice aspect of urban/regional is that you have various decent journals available if your paper fails at top field (JUE). The other three journals are hardly distinguishable in terms of quality.
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Interesting. I agree with RSUE being comparable to JoEG, but JRS has always seemed way lower to me (I just checked the C-L ranking and it seems to agree). Any ranking that puts JRS>RSUE ?
JUE is the top in urban and even slightly wider. There are basically two serious journals in urban: JUE and RSUE.
In the field, it is more like this: JUE > RSUE ~ JoEG ~ JRS
One nice aspect of urban/regional is that you have various decent journals available if your paper fails at top field (JUE). The other three journals are hardly distinguishable in terms of quality. -
urban economics is a tiny field. So even if JUE is the top field journal, it is substantially lower than JoLE or JET for sure. It is somewhat like JPAM: good journal, small field, so only a decent journal.
A good thing is that many papers can roughly be considered to be about urban issues (RSUE is even wider --- think about a topic that are absolutely uncorrelated with the city or region). So you can find many labor econ, edu econ, etc, papers in JUE and RSUE. Whether your paper fits the journal probably depends on editors' tastes, and maybe your reputation, though.