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Permalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on November 29, 2012 at 4:42

Dear SriAtul R. Sidurkar,

Thanks for your post.

To start with, I should admit that I have no idea whether you require the information for

(A) Entirely academic purpose (like for purpose of Bibliometric Studies) or

(B) For practical purpose (for selection of Journals for Subscription)

For item (A), you can consult JCR (journal Citation Report) related to  SSCI  and on the basis of  ranking you can easily identify the top ranking journals on the basis of their Impact factors.

If your requirement falls in the Category (B) It is a bit critical and requires a small assessment of your requirements

As you might be knowing that importance or rather relevance of journals depends upon the purpose of acquiring them. The assessment of requirement becomes more intense for Foreign Journals as they are costly and expenditure of Foreign Currency is involved.

For Indian Journals, As I believe, the top ranking journal is EPW.  Since it is not a peer reviewed journal  it is not covered by any international Indexing/Abstracting/Citation databases.  The other Indian Journals are

Indian Journal of Social work,

Contributions to Indian Sociology,

Indian Journal of Labour economics

Indian Economic & Social history Review

IASSI Quarterly

Social Action

Indian Economic Journal

Ageing & Society

Agricultural Situations in India

Indian Economic Review

journal of Indian school of Political economy

Mainstream

review of Development & Change

Sarvekshana

Studies in History

Social scientist

Seminar

Yojona

Social Action

Social Change

Bengal past & Present

Among Foreign Journals:

Americal Sociological Review

American Political Science Review

American Economic Review (All sections)

JEL Journal of Economic Literature

Journal of Economic Perspective

Economica

Econometrica

Journal of Development Economics

World Development

Population & Development Review

Journal of Peasant Studies

Industrial & labour Relation Review

American Historical Review

Madieval History

History & Theory

Oxford Economic Papers

Rand Journal of Economics

Journal of Agrarian Change

Review of Economic Studies

Economic Journal

Journal of Banking & Finance

journal of Econometrics

Journal of Euroean Economic Association

World Bank Economic Review

Journal of Monetary Economics

journal of Money Credit & Banking

& many more

But first of all, you have to decide the focii of activities of your institutes and then you may search some bibliometric databases ( say, for instance, like Econlit, Sociological Abstracts & British Humanities Index etc.) and you can have the most productive journals in the areas of interests of your institutional workers.

I hope I could clarify your query.

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray

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