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 …

We study how citation patterns differ between journal tiers in economics. Concretely, we analyze citations patterns of … more than 6,000 economics research articles published in top five, second tier, and top field economics journals between … 1992 and 1996. In line with previous literature, we find that top five journals' articles generally receive more citations …

original study of 36 cohorts of life scientists (1970–2005) followed through 2015 (or death or retirement). We track not only … material and the rate of return on self-citations with respect to a host of major career outcomes, including grants, future … citations, and job changes. With comprehensive, longitudinal data, we find no evidence whatsoever of a gender gap in self …

We study editorial decision-making using anonymized submission data for four leading economics journals: the Journal of … the European Economics Association, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Review of … Economics and Statistics. We match papers to the publication records of authors at the time of submission and to subsequent …

limit policies adopted by the American Economic Review (AER) in 2008 and the Journal of the European Economic Association … (JEEA) in 2009 in response to a substantial increase in the length of articles in economics. We focus the analysis on the … decision by potential authors to either shorten a longer manuscript in response to the page limit, or submit to another journal …

recounts the history of the journal. The recounting has an analytic core that sees the American Economic Association as an …-purpose publication with highly disparate content. Over time the economics profession expanded and more economics research was produced …, primarily in the form of journal articles. The AER accommodated this shift by allocating more resources to the refereeing and …

the largest contributor to global science, accounting for about 23% of journal articles adjusted for the Chinese share of … papers gain about 1/5th as many citations as non-Chinese (largely English) papers in Scopus they are so numerous that even … Scopus papers and China language equivalent papers and for 37% of citations to those papers. China's move to the forefront of …

scientific employees. While empirical research suggests that scientists exhibit a "taste for science," such open disclosures can …

increasingly likely to reference other social sciences. A breakdown of extramural citations by economics fields shows broad field … rise in economics' extramural influence reflects growth in citations to empirical work. This parallels a growing share of … clients and peers? Is economics scholarship uniquely insular? We address these questions by quantifying interactions between …