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Documenting and explaining the dramatic rise of the new society journals in economics
Ham, John C.; Wright, Julian; Ye, Ziqiu - 2023
journals while updating journal rankings for all economics journals. We then use regression analysis based on how these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014318282
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Publications: German economic research institutes on track
Ketzler, Rolf (contributor);  … - 2007
The request for a strengthening of academic research at the German economic research institutes by the German Science Council more than a decade ago was founded on the crucial insight that sound policy advice the traditional task of the institutes can only be guaranteed in the long term if it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656880
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Aging in style : does how we write matter?
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Kosnik, Lea-Rachel - 2022
The scholarly impact of academic research matters for academic promotions, influence, relevance to public policy, and others. Focusing on writing style in top-level professional journals, we examine how it changes with age, how stylistic differences and age affect impact, and how style and prior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013460166
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An examination of the reliability of prestigious scholarly journals : evidence and implications for decision-makers
Oswald, Andrew J. (contributor) - 2006
work because it is about to appear in prestigious journal X". Moreover, those who allocate levels of research funding, such … research quality in a mechanical way by using journal prestige ratings. The results in this paper suggest that such tendencies … to publish the best article in an issue of a medium-quality journal like the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003309267
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Publishing and promotion in economics : the tyranny of the top five
Heckman, James J.; Moktan, Sidharth - 2018
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.S. economics departments, we find that T5 publications have a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011924952
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Is scholarly refereeing productive (at the margin)?
Hadavand, Aboozar; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wilson, Wesley W. - 2019
In economics many articles are subjected to multiple rounds of refereeing at the same journal, which generates time … social sciences. We examine whether repeated refereeing produces any benefits, using an experiment at one journal that allows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012151838
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A walk on the wild side : "predatory" journals and information asymmetries in scientific evaluations
Bagues, Manuel F.; Sylos Labini, Mauro; Zinovyeva, Natalia - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732370
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Home bias in top economics journals
Bethmann, Dirk; Bransch, Felix; Kvasnicka, Michael; … - 2023
Two of the top economics journals have institutional ties to a specific university, the Quarterly Journal of Economics … (QJE) to Harvard University and the Journal of Political Economy (JPE) to the University of Chicago. Researchers from … articles in their respective home journal. Such home ties and publication bias may harm, but also benefit, article quality. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014228827
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Male gatekeepers gender bias in the publishing process?
Bransch, Felix; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2017
Using data on articles published in the top-five economic journals in the period 1991 to 2010, we explore whether the gender composition of editorial boards is related to the publishing success of female authors and to the quality of articles that get published. Our results show that female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738846
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Citations in economics : measurement, uses and impacts
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015
I describe and compare sources of data on citations in economics and the statistics that can be constructed from them. Constructing data sets of the post-publication citation histories of articles published in the "Top 5" journals in the 1970s and the 2000s, I examine distributions and life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011427822