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A Note on the Global Distribution of Authorship in Economics Journals
Greenspon, Jacob; Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
economics journals, disaggregating by country/region, quality of journal, and fields of specialization. We document striking …
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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/10012479916
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Differences in citation patterns across journal tiers : The case of economics
Anauati, María 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/10012480752
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Cite Unseen : Theory and Evidence on the Effect of Open Access on Cites to Academic Articles Across the Quality Spectrum
McCabe, Mark J. - 2020
Our previous paper (McCabe and Snyder 2014) contained the provocative result that, despite a positive average effect, open access reduces cites to some articles, in particular those published in lower-tier journals. We propose a model in which open access leads more readers to acquire the full...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482347
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The Inside Scoop : Acceptance and Rejection at the Journal of International Economics
Cherkashin, Ivan - 2008
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/10012464690
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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 "natural experiment," outlining a methodology identifying the "citation death tax" -- the impact of death of productive economists on the patterns of their citations. We rely on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464756
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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/10012465379
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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/10012457090
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Nine Facts about Top Journals in Economics
Card, David - 2013
. 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 …
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AGING IN STYLE : Seniority and Sentiment in Scholarly Writing
Kosnik, Lea-Rachel; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
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, and how stylistic differences and age affect impact. As top-level...
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