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 …

has remained relatively stable, with the notable exception of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, which climbed from …How has publishing in top economics journals changed since 1970? Using a data set that combines information on all …. Third, one journal, the American Economic Review, now accounts for 40% of top-5 publications, up from 25% in the 1970s …

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 …

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

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 …

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 … field of economics research (e.g. this ratio is the lowest for econometric methods papers) and with articles' impact (e …

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 …

submissions to the Journal of International Economics to help answer these questions …There is little work on the inner workings of journals. What factors seem to affect the ability to publish in a journal …