Written in celebration of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the American Economic Review (February 2011), this paper … recounts the history of the journal. The recounting has an analytic core that sees the American Economic Association as an …, primarily in the form of journal articles. The AER accommodated this shift by allocating more resources to the refereeing and …

. Third, one journal, the American Economic Review, now accounts for 40% of top-5 publications, up from 25% in the 1970s … shortage of journal space. Fifth, the number of authors per paper has increased from 1.3 in 1970 to 2.3 in 2012, partly … has remained relatively stable, with the notable exception of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, which climbed from …

limit policies adopted by the American Economic Review (AER) in 2008 and the Journal of the European Economic Association … decision by potential authors to either shorten a longer manuscript in response to the page limit, or submit to another journal … journal has substantial monopoly power over submissions, unlike a journal one notch below. At both journals we find that …

the neophilia index as part of journal-ranking procedures by funding agencies and university administrators would provide …

Journal of Development Economics, randomly varying four features: (1) small versus large reference values; (2) whether …

improves the ability of high-profile authors to disseminate their research without going through the traditional peer-review …

the European Economics Association, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Review of …We study editorial decision-making using anonymized submission data for four leading economics journals: the Journal of …

We study how citation patterns differ between journal tiers in economics. Concretely, we analyze citations patterns of …