This paper assesses the relative productivity of academic institutions in Spaui, based on publications in a core set of highly regardeú mainstream Spanish journals of Economics over the penod 1993-1998. The rankings are based on standardized page counts of articles published in these journals over the stated period. In case of n joint authors, each author was assigned l/n of the publication credit. ”he page count for each articIe was standardized according to the average number of charactm published on one page of the respective journals. nie numerairc was set as 1 .U=Investigaciones Económicas.

Keywords: economic journais, ranking. JEL classification: Al1, A13.