: journal-based replication, in which the publishing journal contracts for a replication between acceptance and publication. We … discuss what we learned from a proof-of-concept journal-based replication at the Journal of Public Economics. Our experience … indicates that journal-based replication would be relatively straightforward to implement for laboratory experiments. …

In broad parts of the scientific community the position in publication performance rankings, based on journal quality …-Beta-score ("Publications Ignored, By Even The Author(s)"). We argue that publication performance measures based on journal ratings, such as the … value of publication performance rankings based on journal quality ratings is questionable. …

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 …

-DEAL journals in attracting good papers. Given the two-sided market nature of the academic journal market, these effects may both …

journals. The Quarterly Journal of Economics is clearly the journal with greatest impact, the confidence interval for its rank … Journal of Finance, while the Xie et al. (2009), and Mogstad et al. (2022) methods generally broaden estimated confidence … intervals, particularly for mid-ranking journals. All methods agree that most apparent differences in journal quality are, in …

impact is the standard method in bibliometrics. Since citation rates for journal papers differ substantially across … publication years and Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification codes, citation rates should be normalized for the … are the most important indicators in bibliometrics: (1) the mean normalized citation score (MNCS) compares the citation …

lists. In our meta-ranking the top five journals are given by: Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy …, Econometrica, American Economic Review and Journal of Economic Literature. …

It is well-known that the distribution of citations to articles in a journal is skewed. We ask whether journal rankings …

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 … the publication in a peer reviewed journal results in around twice the number of yearly citations relative to working …

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