The year 2013 was an exciting one for Socio-Economic Review (SER). The editorial starting the year put forward the hypothesis that SER was entering a stage of maturity. With maturity come new institutional pressures. SER is now increasingly confronted with the growth of ratings and rankings as a proxy indicator of scholarly contribution, academic success and status among the research community. There is good news here. For the second year, SER has been listed in the Social Science Citation Index (Web of Science) and in Current Contents (Social & Behavioral Sciences). These data are used by the Journal Citation Reports to calculate what is known as the ‘impact factor’, based on the number of citations in 2012 to articles published in 2011 or 2010, divided by the number of those articles. The 2012 Impact Factor score for SER is 2.054. This places SER in 8th place in Political Science, 11th in Sociology, and 43rd in Economics according to the Journal Citation Reports. This improves upon the Impact Factor of 1.780 from the year 2011 and places SER currently within the top 13% of journals in the Economics category, top 5% in Political Science, and top 8% in Sociology.
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Grégory Jackson (2013) studied this question.