Why Stata Journal is not in ABDC Journal Quality List?

[Andrei Sirchenko]

Dear colleagues,

Who can explain why the Stata Journal is not in the ABDC Journal Quality List? For example, JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL SOFTWARE is there with A rating.

[Joro Kolev]

I cannot speak of the choices that the editors of Stata Journal make, and I do not know nothing of the ABDC Journal Quality List, but I can speak a bit of how these journal rankings work.

I am an Associate Editor at the Economics Bulletin, which is a relatively old (dating back to year 2001) awesome meritocratic journal in economics. The Economics Bulletin is not on many journal lists, because:

1. You need to pay money to be considered/included in many of those lists. Pay to play basically.

2. Even lists which are in principle free, are a pain. For example I wanted to include the Economics Bulletin in the widely used ABS journal ranking in the UK. I can write a short novel about the pain and suffering that I encountered in the process.

[Sebastian Kripfganz]

If this thread becomes a wishlist, I would like to see the Stata Journal indexed in Econlit, which forms the basis for some rankings, e.g. the German Handelsblatt ranking. If a journal is not on that list, then a publication in that journal basically counts nothing.