  We compute confidence intervals for recursive impact factors, that take into
account that some citations are more prestigious than others, as well as for
the associated ranks of journals, applying the methods to the population of
economics journals. The Quarterly Journal of Economics is clearly the journal
with greatest impact, the confidence interval for its rank only includes one.
Based on the simple bootstrap, the remainder of the Top5 journals are in the
top 6 together with the Journal of Finance, while the Xie et al. (2009), and
Mogstad et al. (2022) methods generally broaden estimated confidence intervals,
particularly for mid-ranking journals. All methods agree that most apparent
differences in journal quality are, in fact, mostly insignificant.
