Productive efficiency analysis of quantitative economics journals through stochastic frontier analysis using panel data

José Manuel Gavilan Ruiz, Francisco Javier Ortega Irizo

The main goal of a scientific journal is to diffuse new knowledge. The number of citations received by a journal can be considered as a measure of this objective and, in turn, as a measure of productivity in relation to the production process in which the journals are involved. In order to assess this production process, in this paper econometric models using data panel are employed to obtain measures of efficiency for those journals belonging simultaneously to the areas of “economics” and “social science, mathematical methods” in the Web of Science database. This efficiency is measured in terms of the distance between the actual production of the journals and their estimated maximum achievable number of citations based on their available resources.

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Alternative title:	Análisis de eficiencia productiva de revistas de economía cuantitativa a través del análisis de frontera estocástica utilizando datos de panel
Year of publication:	2020
Authors:	Gavilan Ruiz, José Manuel ; Ortega Irizo, Francisco Javier
Published in:	Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y la empresa. - Sevilla : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ISSN 1886-516X, ZDB-ID 2584041-1. - Vol. 30.2020, p. 297-311
Subject:	production \| productivity \| efficiency \| scientific production \| frontierproduction models \| panel data models \| Technische Effizienz \| Technical efficiency \| Produktivität \| Productivity \| Theorie \| Theory \| Panel \| Panel study \| Produktionsfunktion \| Production function \| Effizienz \| Efficiency \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| Data-Envelopment-Analyse \| Data envelopment analysis