Citation-Capture Rates for Economics Journals: Do they Differ from Other Disciplines and Does it Matter?

This paper compares the rate of citation‐capture across the social sciences, sciences, business school disciplines and economics. It also explores differences in the rate of citation‐capture between leading journals in economics and a representative science category, and between higher and lower ranked economics journals. Short‐term citation counting as used in impact factors and journal ranking schemes is shown to favour sciences over social...