The Journal of Econometrics shows a steady improvement in the citation rankings. In order to present and relate this data, a comparison has been made between the Journal of Econometrics (JoE), the Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) and Econometrica. ISI covers a total of 165 journals in its economics section and in 1999 the Journal of Econometrics ranked as number 40 and in the 2001 survey as number 28.

In the same period the impact factor increased from 0.973 to 1.266. The number of articles published in these journals is in the same order of magnitude: JoE publishing an average of 82 papers annually, REStat 65 papers and Econometrica 74 papers.

The online version of the Journal of Econometrics is available from www.sciencedirect.com. It is recognised by Elsevier that optimising usage of published articles is of essence to authors: it increases their chances to be cited which contributes to the prestige of the Journal. Increasing usage is a core element the distribution strategy. The following table shows an increase of 46 % of full text articles (FTA) published between 1997-2002.

The Journal of Econometrics has established the Dennis J. Aigner Award for applied econometrics and the Arnold Zellner Award for theoretical econometrics for papers published in the Journal of Econometrics. Each of the awards will be presented bi-annually in alternative years. The award is US$5,000 with the first award granted for the best paper in theoretical econometrics

The list of most highly cited papers going back to the first issue of the JoE is accessible on the homepage with a direct link to the full text.

A survey of the top-10 most downloaded articles in 2002 and 2001 is available on the homepage of the JoE. The Arnold Zellner Award is accessible on the homepage along with the “all-star papers” listing the top 50 most cited articles with a direct link to the full text.

Prior to printing, Elsevier will publish accepted articles electronically in ScienceDirect under “Articles in Press”. Each article has been assigned a unique DOI. The earlier online availability may increase citations.

The online version is accessible at 2068 institutions with the number of “heavy users” in 2001 standing at 498 among these institutes with continued progress.

In July 2000, the electronic back files of the Journal of Econometrics up to and including the first issue in 1973 were added to ScienceDirect, bringing the total number of articles of the JoE in the database to 2449. Searchable headings include author names and abstracts with full text in PDF format. References in HTML enable linking to cited articles, thus ensuring integration with today’s published research – backward and forward linking.

Elsevier has introduced SCIRUS a dedicated search engine concentrating exclusively on scientific content searching all web and journal sources. SCIRUS covers over 100 million science related pages and indexes all articles published in JoE and in any of the Elsevier journals. The search result, also offering an advanced search option, provides the bibliographic information, the abstract and a direct link to the full text in ScienceDirect. As an added option your own homepage can be submitted to www.scirus.com