economics journals, disaggregating by country/region, quality of journal, and fields of specialization. We document striking … economy. Developing country representation has risen fastest at journals rated 100th or lower, while it has barely increased … in journals rated 25th or higher. Fields such as international or development where global diversification may have been …

We study the role of gender in the evaluation of economic research using submissions to four leading journals. We find …

This paper examines the relationship between placement of publications in Top Five (T5) journals and receipt of tenure … 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 …

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

a multi-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 …

There is little work on the inner workings of journals. What factors seem to affect the ability to publish in a journal …? Could simple rules (which are already used by some journals) like the desk rejection of a significant minority of papers …, help to streamline the process? At what cost? How well do journals seem to do in choosing papers? What can we say about the …

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 …

The move from traditional to open-access journals--which charge no subscription fees, only submission fees--is gaining … support in academia. We analyze a two-sided-market model in which journals cannot commit to subscription fees when authors … (monopoly, Bertrand competition) and extensions (non-profit journals, bundling, hybrid pricing), using our theoretical findings …

The ranking of scientific journals is important because of the signal it sends to scientists about what is considered … (citations)--these rankings do not reward journals for publishing innovative work that builds on new ideas. We propose an … alternative ranking based on the proclivity of journals to publish papers that build on new ideas, and we implement this ranking …

How has publishing in top economics journals changed since 1970? Using a data set that combines information on all … articles published in the top-5 journals from 1970 to 2012 with their Google Scholar citations, we identify nine key trends …. First, annual submissions to the top-5 journals nearly doubled from 1990 to 2012. Second, the total number of articles …