This paper employs a unique dataset on articles, authors and editors of the top general interest journals in economics … to investigate the role of social connections in the publication process. Ties between editors and authors are identified … increase in their publication outcomes when this editor is in charge of a journal. The analysis of articles' citations suggests …

Despite the ongoing public debate about precarious working conditions in academia, there is only little evidence on …

This paper aims to quantify the contribution of conferences to publication success of more than 4,000 papers presented … presentation and the publishing probability in high-quality journals. Participating in major conferences is also associated with …

This paper examines the relationship between placement of publications in Top Five (T5) journals and receipt of tenure … in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U … tenure. A survey of the perceptions of young economists supports the formal statistical analysis. Pursuit of T5 publications …

In recent years the academic world has experienced a mushrooming of journals that falsely pretend to be legitimate … academic outlets. We study this phenomenon using information from 46,000 researchers seeking promotion in Italian academia …. About 5% of them have published in journals included in the blacklist of 'potential, possible, or probable predatory …

universities, but this difference vanishes when accounting for the quality of the publication. The results also indicate that … focused research efforts and clearer career incentives. -- Graduate programs ; research productivity …

We explore the relationship between collaborations in writing papers and the academic productivity of economists and …, particularly, we describe the magnitude and intensity of co-authorship among economists. To that end, we employ interaction maps …-WOK, published by 5,188 economists from Spanish institutions, and their co-authors, up to 8,202 researchers, from 2002 to 2014, to …