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Editorial: Two Years at the Top
Economics Department and CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona 08005, Spain
School of Geography, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
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The results of the ISI 2005 Journal Citation Reports, released in June 2006, are once again extremely encouraging for the Journal. As shown in Table 1, on the basis of the citation impact factor rankings, Journal of Economic Geography retained both its No. 1 position in geography (out of 38 geography journals covered by the SSCI) and No. 3 position in economics (out of 175 journals covered by the SSCI). The Journal's impact factor increased marginally to 3.22, indicating that articles published in the Journal in 2003 and 2004 were cited on average more than three times each in 2005 and, in geography, the gap between the Journal and its major competitors widened slightly. Papers from these years achieving significantly higher levels of citation than the Journal's average in 2005 included Martin and Sunley