New Impact Factor for IMF Economic Review

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September 2013

New Impact Factor for IMF Economic Review

e IMF Economic Review h as received its new Impact

Factor, 2.53, with the release of the latest omson Reuters

Journal Citation Reports.

is marks an i ncrease from last year’s impressive rst

Impact Factor of 2.1. e journal’s rank ings have risen to

25/332 in the Econom-

ics category and 5/86 in

the Business, Fina nce

category. e Impact

Factor is a measure

of the frequency with

which the average

article in a journ al has

been cited in a part icu-

lar year or period.

“When I asked

Pierre-Olivier Gou-

rinchas and Ayhan

Kose to start the IMF

Economic Review in

2010, I hoped that not

only would the Review publish relev ant macro articles, but

also that the releva nce of the articles would be enough to

make them inuentia l, and the journal successfu l. Judging

by the ranki ngs, the goal has been met, even exceeded ” com-

mented Olivier Blanchard, t he IMF’s Economic Counsellor

and Director of the Resea rch Department.

First published in August 2010, IMF Economic Re view

has quickly become one of the lead ing peer-reviewed jour-

nals for serious macroeconomic ana lysis and research. e

journal has featured a rticles by prominent economists such

as Viral V. Acharya, Patrick Bolton, R icardo Caballero,

Peter Diamond, and Hyun Song Shi n, as well as a number

of IMF sta.

According to Gita Gopinath, a professor of economics at

Harvard University, “e IMF Economic R eview has been

uniquely successfu l in publishing papers that rigorously

analyze rea l world international macroeconomic problems

and in a manner that ha s immediate policy relevance. is

success is owed to a great extent to the hig h quality of the

editorial board which i s able to identify papers that are both

relevant for policy and are executed u sing state of the art

tools so as to make the a nalysis compelling. Given this, it is

not surprising that t he Review’s impact on the profession

has grown steeply since it was  rst published in 2010.”

IMF Economic Review i s the ocial research journal of

the International Monetar y Fund and is published by Pal-

grave Macmilla n for the IMF.

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Staff Discussion Notes

Staf Disc ussion Notes showcase new policy-related analysi s and research by IMF depart-

ments. ese papers are generally brief a nd written in nontechnical lang uage, and are aimed

at a broad audience interested in economic policy issues . For more information on this ser ies

and to download the papers in t his series, please visit: www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/

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No. 13/5

Macroprudential and Microprudential Policies:

Toward Cohabitation

Jacek Osiński, Katharine Seal, and Lex Hoogduin