to publish the best article in an issue of a medium-quality journal like the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics … 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 …

few anecdotes to illustrate the work of an academic journal editor. -- journal ; editing ; economics …

at three leading economics conferences over the 2006- 2012 period. The results show a positive link between conference …

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 powerful influence on tenure decisions and rates of transition to …

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 …

journals while updating journal rankings for all economics journals. We then use regression analysis based on how these …An important recent event in the economics field is the introduction of seven new society journals. Using standard … iterative ranking methodologies from economics, as well as some new methodologies, we demonstrate the spectacular rise of these …

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 …