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

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 …

Scientific-funding bodies are increasingly under pressure to use journal rankings to measure research quality. Hiring … prestigious journal X'. But how persuasive is such an argument? This paper examines data on citations to articles published 25 … years ago. It finds that it is better to write the best article published in an issue of a medium-quality journal such as …