According to the Convention on Biological Biodiversity, as specified by the Nagoya Protocol of 2010 states have sovereign rights over their genetic resources. They are entitled to regulate the access to them and ask for the sharing of benefits drawn from them. A similar regime applies to...

The paper focuses on the robustness of rankings of academic journal quality and research impact of 10 leading econometrics journals taken from the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science (ISI) Category of Economics, using citations data from ISI and the highly accessible Research Papers in Economics...