, Journal of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. We examine three issues: the decline of critical commentary …This paper analyzes the editorial screening process in economics, employing data from the American Economic Review … in economics, the increased referencing behavior of authors, and the decline in the citation of economic research. We …

We present Mendeley-readership information for 30 journals from the German Handelsblatt ranking for Economics and … publication activity. The analysis focusses on journal output, reader counts, scientific disciplines, academic status as well as … found between journals’ reader numbers and impact factors. The results suggest that Mendeley readership data on journal …

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

In a recent study (supported by the European Economics Association) P. Kalaitzidakis, T. P. Mamuneas and T. Stengos … Economics for the period 1994 to 1998. The results show a more equal balance in the research output produced by institutions in …

lists. In our meta-ranking the top five journals are given by: Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy …We construct a meta-ranking of 315 economics journals based on 38 different individual rankings. Our ranking …, Econometrica, American Economic Review and Journal of Economic Literature. …