few anecdotes to illustrate the work of an academic journal editor. …

publish the best article in an issue of a medium-quality journal like the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics than to … because it is about to appear in prestigious journal X. Moreover, those who allocate levels of research funding, such as in … quality in a mechanical way by using journal prestige ratings. The results in this paper suggest that such tendencies are …

, journal scaling and article-splitting. The ranking of economics journals is presented and is compared to rankings by …A ranking of journals is manipulable if a particular journal's position can be improved by making additional citations …

Empirical studies to verify and refine theoretical models are increasingly important in economics. This is reflected in …

identical to the set of evaluating journals. We also draw a critical distinction between the influence of a journal and the … influence of a journal article, with the latter concept arguably being more relevant for potential contributors and those who … evaluate research productivity. The list of top economics journals changes noticeably when one examines citations in the social …

use data on 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 …

The paper focuses on the robustness of rankings of academic journal quality and research impact in general, and in … Economics, in particular, based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science citations database (ISI). The paper … analyses 299 leading international journals in Economics using quantifiable Research Assessment Measures (RAMs), and highlights …

We investigate the question, raised in the journal Die Betriebswirtschaft by Haller (2004), how quality management …