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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...

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Conference Presentations and Academic Publishing

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2019

This paper aims to quantify the contribution of conferences to publication success of more than 4,000 papers presented at three leading economics conferences over the 2006-2012 period. The results show a positive link between conference presentation and the publishing probability in high-quality...

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Publishing and Promotion in Economics : The Tyranny of the Top Five

Heckman, James J. - 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...

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Do Pre-Registration and Pre-Analysis Plans Reduce P-Hacking and Publication Bias?

Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Hartley, Jonathan; Heyes, … - 2022

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are increasingly prominent in economics, with pre-registration and pre-analysis plans (PAPs) promoted as important in ensuring the credibility of findings. We investigate whether these tools reduce the extent of p-hacking and publication bias by collecting and...

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Star Wars : The Empirics Strike Back

Brodeur, Abel - 2013

Journals favor rejection of the null hypothesis. This selection upon tests may distort the behavior of researchers. Using 50,000 tests published between 2005 and 2011 in the AER, JPE, and QJE, we identify a residual in the distribution of tests that cannot be explained by selection. The...

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Unpacking P-Hacking and Publication Bias

Brodeur, Abel; Carrell, Scott; Figlio, David N.; … - 2023

We use unique data from journal submissions to identify and unpack publication bias and p-hacking. We find that initial …

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A Walk on the Wild Side : 'Predatory' Journals and Information Asymmetries in Scientific Evaluations

Bagues, Manuel F. - 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...

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An Examination of the Reliability of Prestigious Scholarly Journals : Evidence and Implications for Decision-Makers

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015

because it is about to appear in prestigious journal X. Moreover, those who allocate levels of research funding, such as in … quality in a mechanical way by using journal prestige ratings. The results in this paper suggest that such tendencies are … publish the best article in an issue of a medium-quality journal like the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics than to …

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Publication Bias and Editorial Statement on Negative Findings

Blanco-Perez, Cristina - 2019

In February 2015, the editors of eight health economics journals sent out an editorial statement which aims to reduce the extent of specification searching and reminds referees to accept studies that: "have potential scientific and publication merit regardless of whether such studies' empirical...

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Writing Tips for Economics Research Papers 2021-2022 Edition

Nikolov, Plamen - 2022

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