Acknowledgement: With thanks to Dr Brett Parris for many references and suggestions listed below.

Notes:

• ERA: refers to the Excellence in Research for Australia initiative. See: http://www.arc.gov.au/era/default.htm

• KSM: refers to a recent quantitative ranking for Economics (only) journals by Kalaitzidakis, Stengos and Mamuneas 'Rankings of Academic Journals and Institutions in Economics', Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 1, No. 6 (Dec., 2003), pp. 1346-1366.

• ISI: refers to the ISI web of science and social science citation index: see http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/science_products/a-z/science_citation_index

Review of ABM/Complex Systems in Economics Possible Journal outlets

ERA A*

Nature (multidisciplinary)

• web: http://www.nature.com/nature

• ERA: A*
• ISI (2009): 32.906 (5yr)
  • FIELD: MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE, 1/48, Q1

Science (multidisciplinary)

• web: http://www.sciencemag.org/

• ERA: A*
• ISI (2009): 31.05 (5yr)
  • FIELD: MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE, 2/48, Q1

American Economic Review (AER)

• web:http://www.aeaweb.org/aer/index.php

• KSM ranking: 1/159
• ERA: A*
• ISI (2009): 4.009 (5yr)
  • FIELD: ECONOMICS, 18/245, Q1
• e.g.:
  • Holland, J.H. and Miller, J.H., (1991) "Artificial Adaptive Agents in Economic Theory", American Economic Review, Vol. 81, No. 2, May, pp. 365-371.
  • Kollman, K., Miller, J.H. and Page, S.E., (1997) "Political Institutions and Sorting in a Tiebout Model", American Economic Review, Vol. 87, No. 5, December, pp. 977-992.

  • LeBaron, B. and Tesfatsion, L., (2008) "Modeling Macroeconomies as Open-Ended Dynamic Systems of Interacting Agents", American Economic Review, Vol. 98, No. 2, May, pp. 246-250.

JEDC: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

• web: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jedc

• KSM ranking: 23/159
• ERA: A*
• ISI (2009): 1.289 (5yr)
  • FIELD: ECONOMICS, 79/245, Q2
• Turn-around time: 4-6 months (via an assoc. editor of JEDC)

Economic Journal

• web: http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0013-0133&site=1

• KSM ranking: 18/159
• ERA: A*
• ISI (2009):2.835
  • FIELD: ECONOMICS, 31/245, Q1
• Turn-around: ?
• e.g. Feature on Complex Adaptive Systems --
  • Axtell, R.L., (2005) "The Complexity of Exchange", Economic Journal, Vol. 115, No. 504, June, pp. F193-F210.
  • Durlauf, S.N., (2005) "Complexity and Empirical Economics", Economic Journal, Vol. 115, No. 504, June, pp. F225-F243.
  • Markose, S.M., (2005) "Computability and Evolutionary Complexity: Markets as Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS)", Economic Journal, Vol. 115, No. 504, June, pp. F159-F192.

Management Science

• web: http://mansci.journal.informs.org/

• ERA: A*
• ISI (2009): 2.227
  • FIELD: MANAGEMENT, 24/112, Q1
• Turn-around: (2008 data) 62% decisions within 90 days, 87% within 180 days, avg. 73% ('Stochastic Models and Simulation' department)

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

• web: http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0309-1317

• ERA: A*
• ISI (2009): 2.139

• FIELD: PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT, 10/44, Q1; URBAN STUDIES 5/34, Q1; GEOGRAPHY 2/61, Q2

• Turn-around: ?
  • e.g. na, but many on networks.

ERA A

JEBO: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

• web: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jebo

• KSM ranking: 32/159
• ERA: A
• ISI (2009): 1.561 (5yr)
  • FIELD: ECONOMICS, 82/245, Q2
• Turn-around: 8-9 months (SDA's experience), possibly only 1 reviewer, sometimes 2

JEE: Journal of Evolutionary Economics

• web: http://www.springerlink.com/content/100519/

• KSM ranking: 117/159
• ERA: A
• ISI (2009): 1.467 (5yr)
  • FIELD: ECONOMICS, 95/245, Q2
• Turn-around: 7-8 months (SDA's experience), 2 reviews + ed.

Ecological Economics

• web: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ecolecon

• ERA: A
• ISI (2009): 2.858
  • FIELD: ECONOMICS, 19/245, Q1; ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 6/66, Q1
• Turn-around: ?
• e.g. Schreinemachers, P., Berger, T. and Aune, J.B., (2007) "Simulating Soil Fertility and Poverty Dynamics in Uganda: A Bio-Economic Multi-Agent Systems Approach", Ecological Economics, Vol. 64, No. 2, 15 December, pp. 387-401.

Cambridge Journal of Economics

• web: http://cje.oxfordjournals.org/

• KSM ranking: 77/159
• ERA: A
• ISI (2009): 1.102 (5yr)
  • FIELD: ECONOMIC, 108/245, Q2
• Turn-around: ?
• e.g. Foster, J., (2005) "From Simplistic to Complex Systems in Economics", Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 29, No. 6, November, pp. 873-892.

Other A (mostly applied)

• Economy & Society

  • Bair, J., (2008) "Analysing Global Economic Organization: Embedded Networks and Global Chains Compared", Economy and Society, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 339-364.
• Energy Economics
  • Weidlich, A. and Veit, D., (2008) "A Critical Survey of Agent-Based Wholesale Electricity Market Models", Energy Economics, Vol. 30, No. 4, July, pp. 1728-1759.
• Environmental and Resource Economics
  • e.g. De Pinto, A. and Nelson, G.C., (2009) "Land Use Change with Spatially Explicit Data: A Dynamic Approach", Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 43, No. 2, June, pp. 209-229.

• Environmental Modeling & Software

• Global Environmental Change
  • e.g. Acosta-Michlik, L. and Espaldon, V., (2008) "Assessing Vulnerability of Selected Farming Communities in the Philippines based on a Behavioural Model of Agent's Adaptation to Global Environmental Change", Global Environmental Change, Vol. 18, No. 4, October, pp. 554-563.
• Growth and Change
  • John, C.H. and Pouder, R.W., (2006) "Technology Clusters versus Industry Clusters: Resources, Networks, and Regional Advantages", Growth and Change, Vol. 37, No. 2, June, pp. 141-171.
• International Journal of Production Economics
• Journal of Development Studies
• Journal of Economic Geography
  • e.g. Irwin, E.E. and Bockstael, N.G., (2002) "Interacting Agents, Spatial Externalities and the Evolution of Residential Land Use Patterns", Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 2, No. 1, January, pp. 31-54.
• Journal of Economic Surveys

  • Oxley, L. and George, D.A.R., (2007) "Economics on the Edge of Chaos: Some Pitfalls of Linearizing Complex Systems", Environmental Modelling & Software, Vol. 22, No. 5, May, pp. 580-589.

• Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
  • e.g. Rosser, J.B., Jr. and Rosser, M.V., (1997) "Complex Dynamics and Systemic Change: How Things Can Go Very Wrong", Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Vol. 20, No. 1, Fall, pp. 103-122.
• Journal of Regional Science
  • e.g. Bradburd, R., Sheppard, S., Bergeron, J. and Engler, E., (2006) "The Impact of Rent Controls in Non-Walrasian Markets: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach", Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 46, No. 3, August, pp. 455-491.
• Regional Science and Urban Economics
  • e.g.
    • Caruso, G., Peeters, D., Cavailh?s, J. and Rounsevell, M., (2007) "Spatial Configurations in a Periurban City. A Cellular Automata-based Microeconomic Model", Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 37, No. 5, September, pp. 542-567.
    • O'Sullivan, A., (2009) "Schelling's Model Revisited: Residential Sorting with Competitive Bidding for Land", Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 39, No. 4, July, pp. 397-408.

ERA B-C

JASSS: Journal of Artificial Social Systems and Simulation

• http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html

• ERA: C
• ISI (2009): 1.55 (5yr)
  • FIELD: SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY 13/68, Q1
• Turn-around: 10 weeks (avg.), 2 reviewers

Computational Economics

• web: http://www.springerlink.com/content/100248/

• ERA: C
• ISI: na

Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination

• http://www.springer.com/economics/economic+theory/journal/11403?detailsPage=editorialBoard

• ERA: C
• ISI: na

non-ERA

European Journal of Economic and Social Systems

• web: http://ejess.e-revues.com/

  • looks very good for the work, but doesn't exist in anyone's list
• ERA: na
• ISA: na

Refs

• Leigh Tesfatsion's ACE Journal Publishing list

• ERA journal finder