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The Life Cycle of Scholars and Papers in Economics -- the "Citation Death Tax"
Aizenman, Joshua - 2008
The information content of academic citations is subject to debate. This paper views premature death as a tragic quot;natural experiment,quot; outlining a methodology identifying the quot;citation death taxquot; -- the impact of death of productive economists on the patterns of their citations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772315
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Differences in Citation Patterns Across Journal Tiers : The Case of Economics
Anauati, Maria Victoria - 2018
We study how citation patterns differ between journal tiers in economics. Concretely, we analyze citations patterns of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910302
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Research Funding and Collaboration
Davies, Benjamin; Gush, Jason; Hendy, Shaun; Jaffe, Adam B. - 2022
We analyse whether research funding contests promote co-authorship. Our analysis combines Scopus publication records with data on applications to the Marsden Fund, the premiere source of funding for basic research in New Zealand. On average, and after controlling for observable and unobservable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013293437
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It's Good to Be First : Order Bias in Reading and Citing NBER Working Papers
Feenberg, Daniel R. - 2015
Choices are frequently made from lists where there is by necessity some ordering of options. In such situations individuals can exhibit both primacy bias towards the first option and recency bias towards the last option. We examine this phenomenon in a particularly interesting context: consumer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022937
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Tools or Toys? the Impact of High Technology on Scholarly Productivity
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Oster, Sharon M. - 2021
Toys. The impact of computers on productivity has been examined directly on macro data and indirectly (on wages) using microeconomic data. This study examines the direct impact on the productivity of scholarship by considering how high technology might alter patterns of coauthoring of articles...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222211
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Nine Facts About Top Journals in Economics
Card, David - 2014
. 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064782
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Neophilia Ranking of Scientific Journals
Packalen, Mikko - 2015
the neophilia index as part of journal-ranking procedures by funding agencies and university administrators would provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015091
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Is Peer Review in Decline?
Ellison, Glenn - 2007
Over the past decade there has been a decline in the fraction of papers in top economics journals written by economists from the highest-ranked economics departments. This paper documents this fact and uses additional data on publications and citations to assess various potential explanations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776461
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The Inside Scoop : Acceptance and Rejection at the Journal of International Economics
Cherkashin, Ivan - 2010
There is little work on the inner workings of journals. What factors seem to affect the ability to publish in a journal … submissions to the Journal of International Economics to help answer these questions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759361
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Are Referees and Editors in Economics Gender Neutral?
Card, David - 2019
We study the role of gender in the evaluation of economic research using submissions to four leading journals. We find that referee gender has no effect on the relative assessment of female- versus male-authored papers, suggesting that any differential biases of male referees are negligible. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868347