economics as a field does not appreciate and work on what economists collectively prefer. …We document economists' opinions about what is worth knowing and ask (i) which research objectives economic research … economic researchers who publish in English. We report three main findings. First, economists’ opinions are vastly …

impact is the standard method in bibliometrics. Since citation rates for journal papers differ substantially across …This study is intended to facilitate fair research evaluations in economics. Field- and timenormalization of citation … publication years and Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification codes, citation rates should be normalized for the …

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

This paper incorporates publication uncertainty in a game between researchers and journal editors and examines its … effects on quantity and quality of published research. A stylized differential Stackelberg game between journal editors and … academic authors is considered, where authors seek to maximize satisfaction from publications, while journal editors try to …

It is well-known that the distribution of citations to articles in a journal is skewed. We ask whether journal rankings … papers for 100 economics journals and recalculate the impact factor. Afterwards we compare the resulting rankings with the …

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

Many papers in economics that are published in peer reviewed journals are initially released in widely circulated … working paper series. This raises the question about the benefit of publishing in a peer-reviewed journal in terms of …-reviewed journal lead to more subsequent citations for papers that are already available in working paper series? Our data set …

Updating the study by Seiler and Wohlrabe (2013) we use archetypoid analysis to classify top economists. The approach … from 776 top economists we identify four archetypoids. These types represent solid, low, top and diligent performer. Each …

This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal … citations, the JEL classification, the number of journal pages and the length of the title. …

possibly overlapping projects. We bring our model to the data by analyzing the coauthorship network of economists registered in … institutions and compare them with the economics funding program of the National Science Foundation. Our results indicate that …