We compute confidence intervals for recursive impact factors, that take into account that some citations are more … prestigious than others, as well as for the associated ranks of journals, applying the methods to the population of economics … journals. The Quarterly Journal of Economics is clearly the journal with greatest impact, the confidence interval for its rank …

empirical analysis points out that, first, the reputation of journals plays an overriding role in gaining attention in science …Which signals are important in gaining attention in science? For a group of 1,371 scientific articles published in 17 … demography journals in the years 1990-1992 we track their influence and discern which signals are important in receiving …

econometrics journals taken from the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science (ISI) Category of Economics, using citations data from ISI … related disciplines. The journals are ranked using quantifiable static and dynamic Research Assessment Measures (RAMs), with … weighted and unweighted transformations of citations, are highlighted to show which RAMs are able to provide informational …

We study the evolution of the influence of journals over the period 1970-2017. In the early 1970's, a number of … journals had similar influence, but by 1995, the 'Top 5' journals - QJE, AER, RES, Econometrica, and JPE - had acquired a major … also study trends in sociology. The trends there have gone the other way - the field journals rose in influence, relative …

publication statistics or competitive attention seeking strategies. The badly designed use of market principles in which citations …Science is a winner-take-all profession in which only few contributions get excessive attention and the large majority … of papers_new remains receives scant or no attention. This so-called ‘waste’ together with all the competitive strategies …

heterogeneity in advertising costs. Firms whose advertising is more salient and therefore raise attention more easily charge lower …

Economists have become increasingly interested in using attention to explain behavioral patterns both on the micro and …-down" model of executive optimization. Others, like salience theory, assume a "bottom-up" influence where attention is driven by … contextual factors. This distinction is fundamental for the economic implications of attention, but so far there is little …

understand the formation of such views and find levers to affect them, we study the role of attention. In a large online … experiment, we investigate how subjects allocate their visual attention to the contributions of merit and luck in the generation … less attention to information about true merit and retain more of the surplus. Both the attentional and behavioral patterns …

information, and make inefficient choices based on their decisions from before. Moreover, to track the participants' attention and … heterogeneous attention patterns, which are linked to differential weighting of the product's attributes (price, quality, and … sustainability) during the decision. While our information treatment has little effect on attention allocation to individual …