Economists are obsessed with rankings of institutions, journals, or scholars according to the value of some feature of … for the rank of, say, a particular journal as well as simultaneous confidence sets for the ranks of all journals. We apply … these confidence sets to draw inferences about uncertainty in the ranking of economics journals and universities by impact …

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 …

The network of economists who publish in leading journals is generally perceived as small, exclusive, and tightly knit …

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 …

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 …

, open access reduces cites to some articles, in particular those published in lower-tier journals. We propose a model in …

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 …