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

matter of course that economics should become a natural science. Such a characterization misses an essential aspect of a …

Awards play a large role in the economics profession, which is documented by the large variety and number of awards …. However, little scientific attention has been devoted to them. This paper documents the prevalence of awards in the economics … profession and analyzes the number and type of awards received by the 1,200 leading economists included in Who's Who in Economics …

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 …

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 …

We compare Covid-related working papers in economics to non-Covid-related working papers in four dimensions. Based on …

Many papers in economics that are published in peer reviewed journals are initially released in widely circulated … comprises about 28.000 working papers from four major working paper series in economics. Using panel data methods, we show that …

journal? We show empirically that the answer is yes, using 3167 articles published in five of the top journals in economics …