Journal of Economic Literature

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Economic Literature is 8. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book Reviews425
Schooled and Sorted: How Educational Categories Create Inequality376
Debunking Immigration Myths: A Review Essay of Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success304
Book Reviews233
Book Reviews231
Book Reviews121
Bessy, Christian. Expropriation by Law: Intellectual Property, Value and Labor110
JEL Classification System108
Cash Is Alive: How Economists Explain Holding and Use of Cash107
Data Engineering for Cognitive Economics105
When Democracy Falters: A Multidisciplinary, Multi-book Review Essay on Polarization, Populism, and Authoritarianism100
How Unique is VC’s American History?98
A Review Essay of The Economics of Structural Racism by Patrick Mason90
Agri-food Value Chain Revolutions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries87
Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries87
Book Reviews86
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Twelfth Annual List83
Geisst, Charles R. Just Price in the Markets: A History80
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Nineteenth Annual List78
King, Michael R. Fintech Explained: How Technology Is Transforming Financial Services77
A Nation of Laws, and Race Laws74
From Micro to Macro Development74
Should They Compete or Should They Cooperate? The View of Agency Theory72
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2022, Volume LX, Number 371
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History69
Book Reviews65
JEL Classification System58
Journal of Economic Literature, June 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 256
Why Is Productivity Slowing Down?53
Position and Possessions: Stratification Economics and Intergroup Inequality53
Belief-Dependent Motivations and Psychological Game Theory52
JEL Classification System46
The Market Power of Technology: Understanding the Second Gilded Age46
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism42
The Global Infrastructure Gap: Potential, Perils, and a Framework for Distinction42
Bauer, Jean-Martin. The New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the Twenty-First Century42
Information Cascades and Social Learning37
What Can Economics Say about Alzheimer’s Disease?35
Jia, Ruixue and Hongbin Li. The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China34
The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Randomized Controlled Trials with Structural Modeling34
When Nations Can't Default: A History of War Reparations and Sovereign Debt31
Journal of Economic Literature, December 2024, Volume LXII, Number 430
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023, Volume LXI, Number 329
Annotated Listing of New Books25
Annotated Listing of New Books25
Book Reviews23
Artificial Intelligence–Powered (Finance) Scholarship22
The Economics of Social Media21
Sovereign Debt in the Twenty-first Century21
Neal, Larry. The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase: European Bankers, the US, and the Rise of International Finance20
What Universities Owe Democracy20
Book Reviews19
Chew, Donald H., Jr. The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of Nations18
Structural Reforms and Economic Performance: The Experience of Advanced Economies17
The Long-Run Impacts of Mexican American School Desegregation17
Choosing the Future: Markets, Ethics, and Rapprochement in Social Discounting17
Religion and Growth16
The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship: Job Creation and Survival among US Startups13
Blustein, Paul. King Dollar: The Past and Future of the World’s Dominant Currency13
Annotated Listing of New Books13
Border Economies: Cities Bridging the U.S.—Mexico Divide13
Can Massive Technological Progress Hurt Workers? A Review of Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson12
Annotated Listing of New Books12
The Economics of Tobacco Regulation: A Comprehensive Review11
Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves: A Review Essay11
Immigration and Support for Redistribution: Lessons from Europe11
Book Reviews11
Book Reviews11
Annotated Listing of New Books10
China’s Macroeconomic Development: The Role of Gradualist Reforms10
Soviet Mathematics and Economic Theory in the Past Century: A Historical Reappraisal10
Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia10
Volckart, Oliver. The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency10
Larry Ball’s The Fed and Lehman Brothers: A Review Essay9
Bassiri, Nima. Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value9
JEL Classification System8
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare8
Housing and Inequality8
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