Journal of Economic Literature

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Economic Literature is 9. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Schooled and Sorted: How Educational Categories Create Inequality453
Debunking Immigration Myths: A Review Essay of Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success395
Book Reviews332
Book Reviews259
Book Reviews258
Bessy, Christian. Expropriation by Law: Intellectual Property, Value and Labor156
JEL Classification System133
When Democracy Falters: A Multidisciplinary, Multi-book Review Essay on Polarization, Populism, and Authoritarianism123
Data Engineering for Cognitive Economics118
Cash Is Alive: How Economists Explain Holding and Use of Cash117
How Unique is VC’s American History?115
A Review Essay of The Economics of Structural Racism by Patrick Mason111
Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries108
Agri-food Value Chain Revolutions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries95
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Twelfth Annual List94
Geisst, Charles R. Just Price in the Markets: A History91
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Nineteenth Annual List91
King, Michael R. Fintech Explained: How Technology Is Transforming Financial Services86
From Micro to Macro Development85
Should They Compete or Should They Cooperate? The View of Agency Theory82
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2022, Volume LX, Number 381
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History80
JEL Classification System74
Journal of Economic Literature, June 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 267
Belief-Dependent Motivations and Psychological Game Theory65
Why Is Productivity Slowing Down?62
The Market Power of Technology: Understanding the Second Gilded Age56
JEL Classification System50
Jia, Ruixue and Hongbin Li. The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China49
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism49
Bauer, Jean-Martin. The New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the Twenty-First Century44
What Can Economics Say about Alzheimer’s Disease?44
The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Randomized Controlled Trials with Structural Modeling43
When Nations Can't Default: A History of War Reparations and Sovereign Debt39
Information Cascades and Social Learning39
The Global Infrastructure Gap: Potential, Perils, and a Framework for Distinction39
Journal of Economic Literature, December 2024, Volume LXII, Number 436
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023, Volume LXI, Number 334
Annotated Listing of New Books31
Book Reviews30
Annotated Listing of New Books30
Artificial Intelligence–Powered (Finance) Scholarship28
The Economics of Social Media24
What Universities Owe Democracy22
Neal, Larry. The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase: European Bankers, the US, and the Rise of International Finance22
Sovereign Debt in the Twenty-first Century22
Choosing the Future: Markets, Ethics, and Rapprochement in Social Discounting22
Book Reviews21
Chew, Donald H., Jr. The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of Nations21
The Long-Run Impacts of Mexican American School Desegregation20
Blustein, Paul. King Dollar: The Past and Future of the World’s Dominant Currency19
The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship: Job Creation and Survival among US Startups18
Structural Reforms and Economic Performance: The Experience of Advanced Economies18
Religion and Growth18
Border Economies: Cities Bridging the U.S.—Mexico Divide16
Book Reviews15
Annotated Listing of New Books15
Can Massive Technological Progress Hurt Workers? A Review of Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson15
Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia14
The Economics of Tobacco Regulation: A Comprehensive Review14
Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves: A Review Essay14
Immigration and Support for Redistribution: Lessons from Europe14
Book Reviews14
Soviet Mathematics and Economic Theory in the Past Century: A Historical Reappraisal13
Bassiri, Nima. Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value13
Annotated Listing of New Books13
Volckart, Oliver. The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency13
Larry Ball’s The Fed and Lehman Brothers: A Review Essay12
China’s Macroeconomic Development: The Role of Gradualist Reforms12
JEL Classification System11
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare11
Measurement Systems11
Housing and Inequality10
Local Projections9
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