This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal …

data ; economics profession …

We construct a meta-ranking of 315 economics journals based on 38 different individual rankings. Our ranking … lists. In our meta-ranking the top five journals are given by: Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy …

papers for 100 economics journals and recalculate the impact factor. Afterwards we compare the resulting rankings with the …

1970's the world of economics was a collection of islands, with the largest island having about 15% of the population. Two … decades later, in the 1990's, the world of economics was much more integrated, with the largest island covering close to half … believe that economics is an emerging small world. What is it about the network structure that makes the world small? An …