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Quantifying the Life Cycle of Scholarly Articles Across Fields of Economic Research

Anauati, Maria Victoria - 2018

Does the life cycle of economic papers differ across fields of economic research? By constructing and analyzing a large dataset that combines information on 9,672 articles published in the top five economic journals from 1970 to 2000 with detailed yearly citation data obtained from Google...

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Male Gatekeepers Gender Bias in the Publishing Process?

Bransch, Felix - 2017

Using data on articles published in the top-five economic journals in the period 1991 to 2010, we explore whether the gender composition of editorial boards is related to the publishing success of female authors and to the quality of articles that get published. Our results show that female...

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Discussants

Georg, Co-Pierre; Opolot, Daniel C.; Rose, Michael E. - 2019

This study is the first to examine the role of discussants in academic knowledge production. Comparing articles of similar quality with andwithout discussants,we find that having a discussant increases a paper's probability of publication in prestigious journals, but not its citation count....

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What's worth knowing? : economists' opinions about economics

Andre, Peter; Falk, Martin - 2021

We document economists’ opinions about what is worth knowing and ask (i) which research objectives economic research … economic researchers who publish in English. We report three main findings. First, economists’ opinions are vastly … economics as a field does not appreciate and work on what economists collectively prefer. …

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What's worth knowing? : economists' opinions about economics

Falk, Armin; Andre, Peter - 2021

We document economists' opinions about what is worth knowing and ask (i) which research objectives economic research … economic researchers who publish in English. We report three main findings. First, economists’ opinions are vastly … economics as a field does not appreciate and work on what economists collectively prefer. …

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Alphabetized co-authorship in economics reconsidered

Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2021

In this article, we revisit the analysis of Laband and Tollison (2006) who documented that articles with two authors in alphabetical order are cited much more often than non-alphabetized papers with two authors in the American Economic Review and the American Journal of Agricultural Economics....

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The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and Not Z)

van Praag, Mirjam - 2007

Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more...

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Male gatekeepers gender bias in the publishing process?

Bransch, Felix; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2017

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AGING IN STYLE : Seniority and Sentiment in Scholarly Writing

Kosnik, Lea-Rachel; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The scholarly impact of academic research matters for academic promotions, influence, relevance to public policy, and others. Focusing on writing style in top-level professional journals, we examine how it changes with age, and how stylistic differences and age affect impact. As top-level...

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Why Do Older Scholars Slow Down?

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Kosnik, Lea-Rachel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Using data describing all "Top 5" economics journal publications from 1969-2018, we examine what determines which authors produce less as they age and which retire earlier. Sub-field has no impact on the rate of production, but interacts with it to alter retirement probabilities. A positive,...

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