economics journals, disaggregating by country/region, quality of journal, and fields of specialization. We document striking … economy. Developing country representation has risen fastest at journals rated 100th or lower, while it has barely increased … in journals rated 25th or higher. Fields such as international or development where global diversification may have been …

The network of economists who publish in leading journals is generally perceived as small, exclusive, and tightly knit … recommendations of economic research at the Journal of Human Resources (JHR). Our empirical strategy employs several dimensions of …

This paper examines the relationship between placement of publications in Top Five (T5) journals and receipt of tenure …

more than 6,000 economics research articles published in top five, second tier, and top field economics journals between … 1992 and 1996. In line with previous literature, we find that top five journals' articles generally receive more citations … field of economics research (e.g. this ratio is the lowest for econometric methods papers) and with articles' impact (e …

Academic journals set a variety of policies that affect the supply of new manuscripts. We study the impact of page … manuscripts. These findings provide a revealed-preference measure of competition between journals and indicate that a top-5 … journal has substantial monopoly power over submissions, unlike a journal one notch below. At both journals we find that …

others. Focusing on writing style in top-level professional journals, we examine how it changes with age, and how stylistic … research. Nobel laureates' scholarly writing evinces less certainty about the conclusions of their research than that of other …The scholarly impact of academic research matters for academic promotions, influence, relevance to public policy, and …

research remains an isolated or 'ivory tower' activity, with weak connectivity to public use, little relationship between the … quality of research and its public use, and little correspondence between the funding of science and its public use. This …

Research which explores unchartered waters has a high potential for major impact but also carries a higher uncertainty … of having impact. Such explorative research is often described as taking a novel approach. This study examines the … complex relationship between pursuing a novel approach and impact. Viewing scientific research as a combinatorial process, we …

The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of … China-born researchers who work in the US ("diaspora") and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US-research … experience and returned to do their research in China ("returnee"). Analyzing 2018 Scopus data on research papers, we estimate …

experiment based on the Obama administration's staggered introduction of open-access requirements for federally-funded research …